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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.
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d4fd1b83 8Exim version 4.91
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10
11JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
12 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
13 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
14 extant use locations.
15
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16JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
17 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
18
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19JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
20 Previously only the last row was returned.
21
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25
26JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
27 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
28 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
29 pairs of long lines into single ones.
30
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31PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
32 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
33
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34JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
35 This permits better logging.
36
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37JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
38 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
39 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
40 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
41 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 42 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 43
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44JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
45 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
46 "exiwhat" output.
47
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48PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
49 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
50 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
51
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52JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
53 than 255 are no longer allowed.
54
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55JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
56 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
57 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
58 client, there is no benefit for these.
59 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
60 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
61 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
62 is used (3.2.4 +).
63
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64PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
65 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
66
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67JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
68 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
69 erroneously found still-pending ones.
70
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71JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
72 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
73
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74JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
75 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
76 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
77 signature and again for transmission.
78
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79JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
80 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 81 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
eeb35890 82
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83JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
84 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
85 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
86 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
87 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
88 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
89 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
90
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91JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
92 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
93 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 94 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
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96PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
97 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
98 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
99 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
100 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
101 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
102 processing options.
103
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104JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
105 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
106 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
107 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
108 connections.
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110PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
111 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
112 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
113 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
114 versions.
115
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116JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
117 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
118 inaccessible.
119
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120JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
121 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
122 banner-time rejection.
123
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124JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
125 callout/hold.
126
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127PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
128 is the name of a transport.
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129 Fixes bug 2140.
130
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131HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
132
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133JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
134 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
135
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136JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
137 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
138 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
139 during compilation.
140
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141JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
142 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
143 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 144 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 145
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146JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
147 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
148 initial verify call returned a defer.
149
ad1a76fe 150JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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151 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
152
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153JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
154 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
155
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156JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
157 if present. Previously it was ignored.
158
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159JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
160 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
161
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162JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
163 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
164 extensible.
165
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166PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
167 Patch provided by Jaroslav Škarvada.
168
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169PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
170 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
171 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
172
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173JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
174 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
175 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
176 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
177
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178HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess where chunked
179 and confused the parent.
180
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181JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
182 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
183
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184JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
185 for log purposes.
186
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187JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
188 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
189 out-of-order delivery.
190
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191JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
192 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
193 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
194 error for the HELO.
195
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196JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
197 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
198 desynchronisation.
199
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200JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
201 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
202 one run was done. Bug 2189.
203
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204JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
205 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
206 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
207 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
208 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
209 message is still "Temporary local problem".
210
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211JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
212 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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213 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
214
215HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
216 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
217 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
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219JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
220 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
221 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
222 though a different problem.
223
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9427e879 228JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 229 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 230
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231JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
232
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233PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
234 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
235
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236JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
237 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
238
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239JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
240 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
241 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
242 before acknowledging the chunk.
243
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244PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
245 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
246 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
247
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248JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
249 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
250 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
251 should.
252
253JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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254 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
255 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 256
bd8fbe36 257JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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258 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
259
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260JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
261 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
262 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
263 body hash calculated value.
264
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265JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
266 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
267 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
268
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269JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
270
271JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
272 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
273
274JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
275 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
276 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
277
278JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
279 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
280 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
281 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
282 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
283 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
284
285JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
286 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
287 past that check, despite the cost.
288
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289JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
290 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
291 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
292
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293PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
294 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
295 TLS library to consume.
296
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297PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
298
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299PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
300
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301JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
302 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
303 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
304 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
305 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
306 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
307 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
308
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309PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
310
311PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
312
313PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
314 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
315 should be warning-free.
316
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317JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
318
319HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
320 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
321
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322HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
323 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
324 general solution here.
325
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326PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
327 already-broken messages in the queue.
328
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329JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
330
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331JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
332
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337JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
338 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 339
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340JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
341 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
342 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
343
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344JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
345 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
346 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
347 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
348 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
349 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
350 if one fails this test.
351 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
352 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
353
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354JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
355 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
356
23bb6982 357JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 358 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 359
0bd1b1ed 360JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 361 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 362
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363JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
364 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
365
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366JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
367 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
368
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369JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
370
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371JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
372 certificate).
373
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374JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
375 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
376 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
377 connection after a verify cache hit.
378 Do not update it with the verify result either.
379
380JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
381 when routing results in more than one destination address.
382
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383JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
384 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
385 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
386 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
387 when the cutthrough connection is made).
388
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389JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
390 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
391
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392JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
393 Previously they were not counted.
394
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395JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
396 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
397 that needed the lookup.
398
4c04137d 399JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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400 distinguished as "(=".
401
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402JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
403 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
404
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405JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
406
407JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
408 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 409
4c04137d 410JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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411 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
412
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413JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
414 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
415 compatible.
416
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417JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
418 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
419 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
420 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
421
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422JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
423
f59aaaaa 424JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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425 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
426 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 427
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428JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
429 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
430 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
431 be lost.
432
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433JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
434 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
435 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
436 itself :(
437
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438JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
439 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
440 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
441
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442JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
443 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
444 options.
445
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446JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
447
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448PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
449 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
450
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451PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
452 are not in the system include path.
453
ad7fc6eb 454JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 455 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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456 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
457 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 458
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459JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
460 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
461 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
462
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463JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
464
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465HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
466 an incoming connection.
467
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468HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
469 to rspamd.
470
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471HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
472 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 473
87cb4a16 474JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 475 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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481JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
482 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
483 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
484 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 485
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486TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
487 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
488
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489TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
490 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
491 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
492 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
493 outgoing I= field.
494
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495JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
496 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
497 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
498 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
499 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
500 check on the next write.
501
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502HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
503 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
504 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
505 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
506 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
507
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508JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
509 mime_regex ACL conditions.
510
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511JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
512 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
513 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
514
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515JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
516 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
517 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
518 an authenticate fail is not an error.
519
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520HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
521 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
522
4c04137d 523JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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524 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
525
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526JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
527 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
528 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
529 distinct.
530
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531JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
532
533JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
534
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535JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
536
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537JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
538 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
539
98b98887 540JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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541 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
542
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543JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
544
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545JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
546 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
547
548JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
549
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550JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
551 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
552
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553JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
554
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555JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
556 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 557 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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558 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
559 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
560 they will retry in-clear.
561 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
562 at installation time.
563
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564HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
565 with the $config_file variable.
566
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567JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
568 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
569 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
570 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 571 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
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573GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
574 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
575 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
576 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
577 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
578
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579JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
580
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581JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
582 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
583 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
584 list order is no longer honoured.
585
4c04137d 586JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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587 for DKIM processing.
588
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589JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
590 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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592JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
593 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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594 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
595 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
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597JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
598 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
599
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600JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
601 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
602
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603JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
604 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
605
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606JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
607
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608JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
609 cached by the daemon.
610
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611JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
612 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
613
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614JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
615 keys are given for lookup.
616
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617JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
618 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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619 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
620 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
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622JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
623 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
624 server-side so match that on older versions.
625
07c73177 626JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 627 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 628 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 629
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630JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
631 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
632
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633JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
634 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
635 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 636 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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637 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
638 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
639 initial truncated version.
640
ab9152ff 641JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
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643JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
644
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645JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
646 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
647
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648JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
649
bc3c7bb7 650HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 651
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652JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
653 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
654 induced overflows.
655
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656JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
657 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
658 stage.
659
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660JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
661 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
662
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663JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
664 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
665 former class.
666
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667JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
668 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
669 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
670
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671JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
672 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
673 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
674 extraction. Accept either.
675
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680JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
681 expanded.
682
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683JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
684
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685JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
686 it.
687
01a4a5c5 688JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 689 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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690 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
691 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
692
cb1d7830 693JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 694 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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695 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
696
610ff438 697JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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698 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
699 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
700 TLS connections
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702JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
703 sites use this now.
704
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705JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
706 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
707 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
708 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
709 have a dsn_lasthop option.
710
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711JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
712 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 713 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
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715JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
716
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717JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
718 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
719
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720JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
721 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
722
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723JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
724 /defer_ok option.
725
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726JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
727 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
728
fd4d8871 729JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 730 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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731 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
732
733JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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734 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
735 specify a port-range.
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737JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
738 timeout value per server.
739
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740JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
741 now have the list separator specified.
742
8a512ed5 743JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 744 option values.
8a512ed5 745
82c0c8ea 746JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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747 under OpenSSL.
748
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749JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
750
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751JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
752 rather than the verbs used.
753
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754JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
755 from 255 to 1024 chars.
756
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757JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
758
cfab9d68 759HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 760 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
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762JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
763 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
764
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765HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
766 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
767
4c04137d 768JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
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770JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
771
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772JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
773 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 774 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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775 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
776
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777JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
778
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779JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
780 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
781
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782JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
783 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
784
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785JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
786
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787JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
788
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789JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
790
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791JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
792 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
793
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794JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
795 added for tls authenticator.
796
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797HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
798
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803TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
804 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
805 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
806 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
807 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
808 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
809 the script parsing/test process like normal.
810
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811TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
812 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
813 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
814 function when detected.
815
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816JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
817 cause callback expansion.
818
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819TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
820 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
821 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
822 instead of bool when processing it.
823
0f06b4f2 824JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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826
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827JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
828
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829JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
830
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831TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
832
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833TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
834 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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836JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
837 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
838 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
839 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 840 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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841 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
842
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843JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
844 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
845 exceeded it.
846
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847JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
848 version 3.3.6 or later.
849
4c04137d 850JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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851 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
852 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 853 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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854 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
855 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
856 option is defined.
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858TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
859 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
860
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861JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
862 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
863 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
864 matches.
865
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866JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
867 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
868 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
869
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870JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
871 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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872
873JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
874 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
875 syntax errors.
876
3394b36a 877JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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878
879JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
880 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
881
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882TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
883 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
884 tarball.
885
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886JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
887
4c04137d 888JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
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889 Bug 1561.
890
891JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
892 output list separator was used.
893
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897TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
898 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
899 return.
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a612424f 901JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 902 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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904JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
905
906TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 907 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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913TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
914
915 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
916 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
917 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
918 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
919 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
920 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
921
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922TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
923 utilities have not been installed.
924
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926 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
927
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929 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
930
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931TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
932 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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934 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
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936JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
937
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938TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
939 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
940
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941PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
942 not dns_use_dnssec.
943
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944JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
945
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946TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
947 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
948 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
949
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951 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
952 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
953 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
954 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 955 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 956
b9c2e32f
AR
957JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
958
e45a1c37
JH
959JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
960 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
961
67d81c10
JH
962JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
963 failed delivery.
964
b1f8e4f8
JH
965JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
966
511a6c14 967JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
968
969JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
970 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 971
51c7471d
JH
972JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
973 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
974
3695be34
TL
975TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
976
1e06383a
TL
977JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
978
76146973
JH
979JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
980 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
981
982 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
983 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
984 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
985
8c8b8274
TL
986TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
987 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
988 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
989 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 990
35aba663
JH
991JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
992
8c51eead 993JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
578897ea
JH
994 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
995 lookup).
8c51eead 996
deae092e
HS
997TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
998 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
999 Schlichting.
35aba663 1000
fd3b6a4a 1001JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1002 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1003
8d91c6dc
LT
1004TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1005 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1006
2b4a568d
JH
1007JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1008
d2af03f4
HS
1009TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1010 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1011 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1012
9d1c15ef
JH
1013JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1014 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1015
44662487
JH
1016JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1017 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
JH
1018 hosts_request_ocsp.
1019
ed3bba5f 1020JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1021 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1022 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1023
8ccd00b1
JH
1024JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1025
8ded8589
TL
1026TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1027 Christian Aistleitner.
1028
f2de3a33
JH
1029JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1030
6eb02f88
TL
1031TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1032 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1033
00bff6f6
JH
1034JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1035 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1036
071c51f7
JH
1037JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1038 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1039
a6d4c44e
TF
1040TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1041 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1042
3ae173e7
ACK
1043TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1044 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1045
c13d09b8
TL
1046TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1047 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1048 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1049
0df4ab80
JH
1050JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1051
66be95e0
PP
1052PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1053 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1054 Jasper Wallace.
1055
1bd0d12b
JH
1056JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1057
0de7239e
TL
1058TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1059 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1060 CVE-2014-2972
1061
fd3b6a4a 1062
2c422e6f 1063Exim version 4.82
98a90c36
PP
1064-----------------
1065
1066PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1067
12f69989
PP
1068PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1069 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1070
54c90be1
PP
1071PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1072 by GnuTLS.
1073
1f4a55da
PP
1074PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1075 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1076 routines.
1077
13363eba 1078PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1079
66645890 1080PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
e402235f
PP
1081 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1082 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1083 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1084 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1085
a3fb9793 1086PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
1087 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1088 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1089 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1090 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1091 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1092
d27f98fe 1093TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1094
6822b909
TL
1095TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1096
e7568d51
TL
1097TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1098 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1099
ae0e32ee 1100TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1101 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1102 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
1103
1104TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1105
e2658fff
TL
1106TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1107
83712b39
TL
1108TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1109 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1110
976b7e9f
JH
1111JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1112
be4a1376
JH
1113JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1114
ec4b68e5
PP
1115PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1116
d7148a07
NM
1117NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1118 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1119
585121e2 1120JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1121
2519e60d
TL
1122PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1123 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1124 function.
a5f239e4 1125
13d08c90
PP
1126PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1127 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1128
bef3ea7f
JH
1129JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1130 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1131 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1132
846726c5
JH
1133JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1134
3a796370
JH
1135JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1136
ea722490 1137JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1138 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1139
b1b05573
JH
1140JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1141 Bugzilla 884.
1142
362145b5
JH
1143JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1144 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1145
3c0a92dc
JH
1146JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1147 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1148
6d7c6175
PP
1149PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1150 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1151 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1152
6f123593
JH
1153JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1154 authenticators.
1155
c8e2fc1e
JH
1156JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1157 for control.
1158
005ac57f
PP
1159PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1160
3f1df0e3
PP
1161PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1162 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1163 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1164 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1165
67bd1ab3
TF
1166TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1167
1168 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1169 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1170 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1171 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1172 the retry rules.
1173
1174 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1175 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1176 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1177
1178 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1179 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1180 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1181 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1182
1ddeb334
TF
1183 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1184 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1185 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1186 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1187 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1188 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1189 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1190
1191 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1192 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1193
326cdc37
TF
1194TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1195
1196 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1197
1198 Resent-From: f
1199
1200 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1201 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1202 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1203 username as equal to the username.
1204
1205 This change corrects that bug.
1206
f62514b3
GF
1207GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1208 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1209 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1210
eb505532
TF
1211TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1212
14c7b357
PP
1213PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1214 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1215 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1216 NULL dereference and crash.
1217
94eaf700
PP
1218JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1219
6f5a440a
PP
1220PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1221 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1222 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1223
514ee161
SC
1224SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1225
fd98a5c6
JH
1226JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1227 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1228 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1229 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1230 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1231 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1232 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1233 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1234 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1235 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1236 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1237
035c7f1e
PP
1238PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1239 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1240
ff284120
PP
1241PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1242 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1243 Bugzilla 880.
1244
26e72755
PP
1245PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1246 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1247 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1248 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1249 an empty string is now equivalent.
1250
0fbd9bff
PP
1251PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1252 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1253 not performing validation itself.
1254
700d22f3
PP
1255PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1256 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1257
fcc8e047
JH
1258JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1259 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1260
4c04137d 1261TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1262
8c020188
PP
1263PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1264 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1265 other false fix of the same issue.
1266 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1267 Bugzilla 1363.
1268
d13cdd30
PP
1269PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1270 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1271
e2fbf4a2
PP
1272PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1273 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1274 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1275
f4c1088b
PP
1276PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1277 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1278 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1279
c5c2182f
PP
1280TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1281
73431ca9
JH
1282JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1283
2d07a215
TL
1284TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1285 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1286
a30a8861
TL
1287TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1288 Alexander Miroch.
1289
33382dd9
TL
1290TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1291 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1292 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1293 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1294 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1295
046172e6
TL
1296TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1297 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1298
581d7bee 1299TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1300 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1301 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1302
1303TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1304 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1305 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1306 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1307
237b2cf2
TL
1308TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1309
9fc5a352
TL
1310TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1311 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1312 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1313
b10e4ec2
TL
1314TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1315
e2cebd74
TL
1316TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1317 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1318 interaction.
1319
1320TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1321 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1322
2519e60d
TL
1323TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1324 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1325
e78e6ecf 1326
4263f395
PP
1327Exim version 4.80.1
1328-------------------
1329
1330PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1331 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1332 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1333
ea722490 1334
b1770b6e 1335Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1336-----------------
1337
1338PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1339 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1340 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1341
23c7e742
NM
1342NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1343
b322aac8
NM
1344NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1345 improved.
1346
4a891427
NM
1347NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1348
c1e794ba 1349PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1350
97753960
PP
1351PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1352
1353PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1354 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1355
df6303fa
PP
1356PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1357 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1358
7e6a8985
PP
1359PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1360 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1361
f1e05cc7 1362PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1363 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1364 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1365
4c287009
PP
1366PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1367
b98bb9ac
PP
1368PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1369 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1370
4a6a987a
PP
1371PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1372
c45dd180 1373PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1374
7db8d074
PP
1375PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1376 non-compliant senders.
1377 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1378
eae0036b 1379NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1380 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1381 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1382
dec5017e
PP
1383PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1384 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1385 in spool file corruption.
1386
c80c5570
PP
1387PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1388 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1389 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1390 "Got SSL error 2".
1391
076b11e2
PP
1392TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1393 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1394 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1395
5407bfff
JH
1396JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1397 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1398
9e45c72b
PP
1399JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1400
e74376d8
PP
1401PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1402 diagnostics.
1403 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1404
4c04137d 1405PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1406 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1407 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1408
7be682ca
PP
1409PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1410 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1411 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1412 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1413
ef840681
PP
1414PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1415 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1416
5bfb4cdf
PP
1417PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1418 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1419 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1420 resolver implementation change.
1421
c6e95d22
PP
1422PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1423 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1424
9cbad13b
PP
1425PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1426
9ee44efb
PP
1427PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1428
6a6084f8
PP
1429PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1430 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1431
12dd53c7
PP
1432PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1433 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1434
9e45c72b 1435JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1436 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1437
17c76198
PP
1438PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1439 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1440 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1441 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1442 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1443
53947857 1444PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1445
eae0036b 1446PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1447 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1448 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1449
9e45c72b 1450JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1451
7390e768
PP
1452PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1453 read-only, out of scope).
1454 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1455
08488c86
PP
1456PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1457 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1458 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1459 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1460
6475bd82
PP
1461PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1462
81f91683
PP
1463PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1464 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1465 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1466 real issues in debug logging.
1467
5779e6aa
PP
1468PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1469 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1470
3375e053
PP
1471PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1472 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1473 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1474
1475PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1476 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1477 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1478 problems.
3375e053 1479
9d26b8c0
PP
1480PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1481 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1482
57eb9e91 1483PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1484 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1485 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1486 needs to override this, it can.
1487
16880d1a
PP
1488PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1489 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1490 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1491
a799883d
PP
1492PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1493 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1494 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1495 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1496
3ecab157 1497PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1498
0599f9cf 1499
867fcbf5
PP
1500Exim version 4.77
1501-----------------
1502
1503PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1504 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1505
f1a29782
TF
1506TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1507
ab42bd23
TK
1508TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1509 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1510
0ca0cf52
TF
1511TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1512 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1513
921b12ca
TF
1514TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1515 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1516 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1517
1518 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1519 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1520 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1521 not safe for signals.
1522
1523 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1524 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1525 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1526 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1527 exiwhat.
1528
c99ce5c9
TF
1529TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1530
1531 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1532 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1533 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1534 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1535 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1536
1537 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1538 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1539 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1540 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1541 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1542 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1543
1544 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1545 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1546 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1547 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1548
1549 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1550 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1551 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1552 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1553
1554 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1555 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1556 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1557 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1558 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1559 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1560 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1561 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1562 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1563
1564 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1565 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1566 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1567 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1568
1569 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1570 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1571 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1572 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1573 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1574 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1575 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1576 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1577 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1578 details in the main documentation.
1579
3634fc25
TF
1580TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1581
792e8a19
TF
1582TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1583
5901f0ab
TF
1584TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1585 repository when doing development or release builds.
1586
7f2a2a43
PP
1587PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1588 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1589
061b7ebd
PP
1590PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1591 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1592 Bugzilla 97.
1593
e12f8c32
PP
1594PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1595
9e949f00 1596PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1597 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1598
1599PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1600 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1601
555ae6af 1602PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1603 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1604
1605PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1606 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1607
6f7fe114
PP
1608PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1609 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1610
c566dd90
PP
1611PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1612 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1613 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1614 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1615
d6cc7c78 1616PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1617 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1618 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1619
0d0e4455
PP
1620PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1621
3399bb60 1622PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1623
1624PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1625 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1626
0ca0cf52 1627
10906672
PP
1628Exim version 4.76
1629-----------------
1630
1631PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1632
754a0503
PP
1633PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1634 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1635
c0c7b2da
PP
1636PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1637
e97d1f08
PP
1638PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1639
084c1d8c
PP
1640PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1641 Bugzilla 1098.
1642
4e7ee012
PP
1643PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1644 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1645
c8d52a00
PP
1646TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1647 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1648
54e7ce4a
PP
1649PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1650 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1651
5ee6f336
PP
1652PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1653 Bugzilla 1104.
1654
c8d52a00 1655TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1656 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1657
1658TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1659 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1660 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1661 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1662
1663PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1664 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1665
10906672 1666
aa097c4c
NM
1667Exim version 4.75
1668-----------------
1669
4c04137d 1670NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1671 Bugzilla 1073
1672
7f3d9eff
TF
1673TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1674 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1675 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1676
159f52d2
TF
1677TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1678 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1679
0cc9542a
PP
1680PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1681 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1682 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1683
f7274286
PP
1684PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1685 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1686
7b797365
PP
1687PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1688 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1689
caacae52
NM
1690NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1691 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1692
09dcaba9
NM
1693NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1694 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1695
bc19a55b
PP
1696PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1697 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1698
bd4c9759
NM
1699NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1700 Fixes bug 943.
1701
b72aab72
PP
1702PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1703 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1704
2fe76745
PP
1705PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1706 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1707
76aa570c
PP
1708PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1709 SQL string expansion failure details.
1710 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1711
f1e5fef5
PP
1712PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1713 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1714
4d805ee9
PP
1715PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1716 extern declarations in function scope.
1717 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1718
cd59ab18
PP
1719PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1720 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1721 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1722 a kernel bug).
1723
332f5cf3
PP
1724PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1725 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1726
29cfeb94
PP
1727PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1728 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1729
660242ad
PP
1730PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1731 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1732
bc4bc4c5
PP
1733PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1734 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1735
2e64baa9
NM
1736NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1737 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1738 Dennis Davis.
1739
4c04137d 1740PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 1741
6bac1a9a
PP
1742PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1743
552193f0
NM
1744NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1745 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1746
1b587e48
TF
1747TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1748 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1749
aa097c4c 1750
8c07b69f
TF
1751Exim version 4.74
1752-----------------
1753
1754TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1755 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1756
c0ea85ab
TF
1757TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1758 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1759
0761d44e
TF
1760TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1761
0a349494
PP
1762DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1763 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1764 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1765
1766PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1767 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1768 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1769
fea24b2e
PP
1770PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1771 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1772 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1773 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1774
6545de78
PP
1775PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1776 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1777 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1778 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1779
1670ef10
PP
1780PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1781 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1782 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1783 arbitrary files.
1784
c0886197
PP
1785PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1786 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1787
b7487bce
PP
1788PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1789 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1790 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1791 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1792 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1793
8c07b69f 1794
97fd1e48 1795Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1796-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1797
1798PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1799 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1800 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1801
6901c596
PP
1802PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1803 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1804
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1805JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1806
77bb000f
PP
1807PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1808
a29e5231
PP
1809PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1810
ec5a0394 1811PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1812
55c75993
PP
1813PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1814
453a6645 1815PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1816 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1817 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1818 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1819
8544e77a
PP
1820PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1821 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1822 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1823 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1824 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1825
83e029d5
PP
1826PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1827
ed7f7860
PP
1828PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1829
7d9f747b
PP
1830PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1831
4b2241d2
PP
1832PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1833
10385c15
PP
1834PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1835
dbc4b90d
PP
1836PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1837
532be449
PP
1838PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1839
6a8de854 1840PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1841 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1842 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1843
5dc43717
JJ
1844JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1845
1846JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1847 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1848
3346ab01
PP
1849PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1850 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1851
491fab4c
PP
1852PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1853 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1854 Notification from John Horne.
1855
13eb9497
PP
1856PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1857 compatible.
1858
1859PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1860 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1861 it normally works.
1862
7f36d675
DW
1863DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1864 access.
1865
c1d94452
DW
1866DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1867 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1868 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1869
e2f5dc15
DW
1870DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1871 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1872 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1873 configuration file.
1874
cd25e41d
DW
1875DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1876 option (effectively making it always true).
1877
261dc43e
DW
1878DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1879 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1880
fa32850b
DW
1881DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1882 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1883
79d4bc3d
PP
1884PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1885 run-time user, instead of root.
1886
43236f35 1887PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1888 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1889
fb08281f
DW
1890DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1891 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1892 arguments.
3346ab01 1893
74935b98
DW
1894DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1895 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1896 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1897
90b6341f
DW
1898DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1899
57730b52
ML
1900NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1901
66581d1e 1902
465e92cf
JJ
1903Exim version 4.72
1904-----------------
1905
453a6645
PP
1906JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1907 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1908 typos
465e92cf 1909
453a6645
PP
1910JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1911 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1912 (Finput)
edae0343 1913
9bd3e22c
NM
1914NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1915 Patch from Alain Williams
1916
bb576ff7
NM
1917NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1918
5a1a5845
NM
1919NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1920 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1921
981a9fad
NM
1922NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1923 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1924
7fc497ee
NM
1925NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1926
1a41defa
JJ
1927JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1928
a466095c 1929NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1930 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1931
94a6bd0b
NM
1932TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1933
1934TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1935
1936MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1937 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1938 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1939
c1b141a8
NM
1940NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1941 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1942
b26eacf1 1943NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1944 Patch by Simon Arlott
1945
179c5980 1946PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1947 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1948
9bd3e22c 1949
7c6d71af
NM
1950Exim version 4.71
1951-----------------
1952
7d9f747b 1953TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1954
f013fb92
NM
1955NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1956
0eb8eedd
NM
1957NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1958
663ee6d9
NM
1959NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1960
177ebd9b
NM
1961NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1962
7c6d71af 1963
210f147e
NM
1964Exim version 4.70
1965-----------------
1966
cdd3bb85 1967TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1968 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1969
1970TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1971 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1972 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1973
1974TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1975 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1976 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1977
1978TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1979 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1980
210f147e
NM
1981NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1982 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1983 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1984 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1985
deafd5b3
NM
1986NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1987 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1988 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1989
089793a4
TF
1990TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1991
5f16ca82
TF
1992TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1993
dae9d94e 1994NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1995 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1996
7d9f747b 1997NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1998
06864c44
TF
1999TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2000 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2001 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2002 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2003
65a7d8c3 2004NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2005 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2006
23510047 2007TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2008
7d9f747b 2009NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2010
7d8eec3a 2011NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2012 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2013
89dec7b6
TF
2014TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2015 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2016
a99de90c
TF
2017TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2018 that they are available at delivery time.
2019
e2803e40
TF
2020TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2021
7199e1ee
TF
2022TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2023 incoming_port log selectors.
2024
e276e04b
TF
2025TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2026 setting expands to an empty string.
2027
ce552449 2028NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2029 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2030
e765a0f1 2031NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2032 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2033
4f054c63 2034NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2035 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2036
7d9f747b
PP
2037NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2038 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2039
7d9f747b
PP
2040NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2041 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2042
b52bc06e 2043NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2044 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2045
447de4b0
NM
2046NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2047
4c69d561 2048NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2049 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2050
d5c39246 2051NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2052 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2053
0b23848a
TK
2054TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2055
8f3414a1 2056NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2057 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2058
fb6f955d
NM
2059NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2060
2061NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2062
7d9f747b
PP
2063NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2064 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2065
7d9f747b
PP
2066NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2067 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2068
7d9f747b
PP
2069NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2070 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2071
7d9f747b
PP
2072NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2073 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2074
7d9f747b
PP
2075NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2076 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2077
7d9f747b
PP
2078NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2079 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2080
7d9f747b
PP
2081NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2082 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2083
7d9f747b 2084NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2085 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2086
7d9f747b 2087NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2088
7d9f747b
PP
2089NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2090 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2091
7d9f747b 2092NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2093
7d9f747b 2094NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2095
7d9f747b 2096NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2097
7d9f747b 2098NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2099
17792b53 2100NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2101 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2102
7d9f747b
PP
2103NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2104 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2105
91576cec 2106NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2107 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2108
7d9f747b
PP
2109NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2110 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2111
7d9f747b 2112NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2113
7d9f747b 2114NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2115
7d9f747b 2116NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2117
7d9f747b 2118NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2119
deafd5b3 2120
47db1125
NM
2121Exim version 4.69
2122-----------------
2123
4b3504d0
TK
2124TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2125 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2126 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2127
2128 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2129 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2130 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2131 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2132 build errors in sieve.c.
2133
81ea09ca
NM
2134NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2135 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2136 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2137
f13cddcb
SC
2138SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2139
7d9f747b 2140NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2141
7d9f747b 2142NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2143
7d9f747b 2144NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2145
2146
eb4c0de6
PH
2147Exim version 4.68
2148-----------------
2149
2150PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2151
6a3bceb1
PH
2152PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2153 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2154 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2155 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2156 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2157 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2158 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2159 for iplsearch lookups.
2160
2161 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2162 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2163 previously such lookups could never work.
2164
4c04137d 2165 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2166 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2167 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2168
2e30fa9d
TK
2169TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2170 version.
2171
0806a9c5
MH
2172MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2173 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2174 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2175 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2176 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2177 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2178
ae276964
TK
2179TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2180 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2181
0f2cbd1b
MH
2182MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2183 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2184 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2185 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2186 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2187 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2188
2b85bce7
PH
2189PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2190 local_scan API.
2191
93655c46
PH
2192PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2193
6c512171
PH
2194PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2195 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2196 encrypted.
2197
2198PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2199 by clients under certain conditions.
2200
aa6dc513
PH
2201PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2202 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2203
a96603a0
PH
2204PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2205
8f240103
PH
2206PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2207 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2208
2209PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2210
d677b2f2
PH
2211PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2212
d52120f2
PH
2213PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2214
64f2600a
PH
2215PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2216 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2217
8669f003
PH
2218PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2219
a4dc33a8
PH
2220PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2221 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2222
d6a60c0f
PH
2223PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2224
8f128379
PH
2225PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2226
8932dffe
PH
2227PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2228 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2229 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2230 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2231
ddea74fa 2232PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2233 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2234 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2235
ddea74fa 2236PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2237 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2238
ddea74fa
PH
2239PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2240
ce9f225c
PH
2241PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2242
19897d52
PH
2243PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2244
bc64a74d
PH
2245PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2246 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2247 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2248
eb4c0de6 2249
b4ed4da0
PH
2250Exim version 4.67
2251-----------------
2252
22ad45c9
MH
2253MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2254 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2255 Jan Srzednicki.
2256
b4ed4da0
PH
2257PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2258 issue a MAIL command.
2259
431b7361
PH
2260PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2261
2262 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2263
2264 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2265 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2266 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2267 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2268 item. This has been fixed.
2269
2270PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2271 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2272
83da1223
PH
2273PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2274 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2275
54fc8428
PH
2276PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2277 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2278 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2279
34c5e8dd
SC
2280SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2281
bbe15da8
PH
2282PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2283 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2284 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2285 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2286 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2287
0e8a9471
MH
2288MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2289 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2290 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2291
f0872424
PH
2292PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2293 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2294 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2295 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2296
b01dd148
PH
2297PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2298
6bf342e1
PH
2299PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2300
273f34d0
PH
2301PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2302 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2303 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2304 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2305 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2306
cf8b11a5
PH
2307PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2308
41c7c167
PH
2309PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2310 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2311 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2312 values).
2313
9c57cbc0
PH
2314PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2315
f3f065bb
PH
2316PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2317
047bdd8c
PH
2318PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2319
0ce9abe6
PH
2320PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2321
0e22dfd1
PH
2322PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2323
4c590bd1
PH
2324PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2325 no_callout_flush is set.
2326
09945f1e
PH
2327PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2328 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2329 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2330 fixed.
2331
c51b8e75
PH
2332PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2333
e28326d8 2334PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2335 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2336 other ACL rejections are.
2337
75b1493f
PH
2338PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2339 with slight modification.
2340
7c5214ec
PH
2341PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2342 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2343
4311097e
PH
2344PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2345 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2346 connection.
2347
29f89cad
PH
2348PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2349 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2350
5e687460
SC
2351SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2352
c3611384
PH
2353PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2354 expansion side effects.
2355
5a11a7b4
PH
2356PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2357 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2358 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2359 be the same.
2360
0e20aff9
MH
2361MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2362 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2363 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2364
ca86f471
PH
2365PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2366 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2367 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2368 were accidentally chopped off.
2369
a14e5636
PH
2370PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2371 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2372 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2373 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2374 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2375 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2376 pipelining has not been advertised.
2377
ec95d1a6
PH
2378PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2379
42855d71
PH
2380PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2381 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2382 This has been fixed.
2383
57c2c631
PH
2384PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2385 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2386 reported on Solaris.
2387
58c01c94
PH
2388PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2389 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2390 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2391 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2392 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2393 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2394 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2395
dee5a20a
PH
2396PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2397 cpus.
2398
d2ee6114
PH
2399PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2400
b2d5182b
PH
2401PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2402
79749a79
PH
2403PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2404 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2405 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2406 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2407 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2408 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2409
c456d9bb
PH
2410PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2411 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2412 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2413 host_all_ignored option.
2414
cd9868ec
PH
2415PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2416 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2417 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2418 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2419 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2420 is what is supposed to happen).
2421
ebeaf996
PH
2422PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2423 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2424 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2425 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2426 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2427 uses the Exim user.
2428
2679d413
PH
2429PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2430 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2431 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2432 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2433 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2434 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2435 users.
2436
84024b72
PH
2437PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2438
8005d38e
SC
2439SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2440 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2441 (Jez Hancock).
2442 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2443 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2444
3298c6c6
SC
2445SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2446
a43a27c5
PH
2447PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2448
58eb016e 2449PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2450 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2451 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2452 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2453 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2454 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2455 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2456 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2457 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2458 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2459 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2460
b43a74ea
PH
2461PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2462 advertised in response to EHLO.
2463
b4ed4da0 2464
5dd1517f
PH
2465Exim version 4.66
2466-----------------
2467
2468PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2469 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2470
2471 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2472 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2473
2474 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2475 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2476 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2477
2478 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2479 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2480 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2481 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2482 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2483
2484
93cfa765
TK
2485Exim version 4.65
2486-----------------
2487
2488TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2489 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2490 versions. (#438)
2491
d6066548
MH
2492MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2493 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2494 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2495
4362ff0d
PH
2496PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2497 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2498 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2499 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2500 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2501 rather than extend the field.
2502
93cfa765 2503
944e9e9c
TF
2504Exim version 4.64
2505-----------------
aa41d2de 2506
21d74bd9
TK
2507TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2508 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2509 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2510 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2511 these files.
2512
2513TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2514 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2515 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2516
2517TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2518 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2519 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2520
2521TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2522 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2523 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2524 in the field name.
2525
2b1c6e3a
PH
2526PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2527 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2528 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2529 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2530 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2531 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2532 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2533 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2534 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2535 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2536 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2537
1f872c80
PH
2538PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2539 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2540
2541PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2542 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2543 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2544 ignores EPIPE as well.
2545
d203e649
PH
2546PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2547 (quoted-printable decoding).
2548
cc2ed8f7 2549PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2550 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2551
ddfcd446
PH
2552PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2553
d45b1de8
PH
2554PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2555
2556PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2557
38a0a95f 2558PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2559 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2560
a2405d83
JJ
2561JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2562 in 4.64-PH/09.
2563
2564JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2565 miscellaneous code fixes
2566
6ea85e9a
PH
2567PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2568 rejections.
2569
26da7e20
PH
2570PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2571 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2572 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2573 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2574 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2575 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2576 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2577 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2578
14aa5a05 2579PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2580 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2581 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2582 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2583 function.
2584 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2585 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2586 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2587 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2588 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2589 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2590 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2591 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2592 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2593
ff75a1f7
PH
2594PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2595 decoding.
2596
e6f6568e
PH
2597PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2598 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2599 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2600 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2601 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2602 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2603 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2604 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2605
d6f6e0dc
PH
2606PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2607 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2608 list.
2609
322050c2
PH
2610PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2611 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2612 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2613 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2614 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2615 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2616 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2617 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2618 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2619 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2620 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2621 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2622 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2623
08955dd3
PH
2624PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2625 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2626 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2627 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2628 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2629 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2630 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2631
1eccaa59
PH
2632PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2633 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2634 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2635 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2636 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2637 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2638 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2639 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2640 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2641 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2642
602e59e5
PH
2643PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2644 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2645 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2646 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2647 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2648
411ef850
PH
2649PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2650 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2651 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2652 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2653 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2654 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2655 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2656
7befa435
PH
2657PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2658 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2659 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2660 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2661 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2662 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2663 been verified.
2664
48da4259 2665PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2666 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2667 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2668 and authorization.)
2669
48da4259
PH
2670PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2671 if any retry times were supplied.
2672
d1d5595c
PH
2673PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2674 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2675 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2676
0ef732d9
PH
2677PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2678
328895cc
PH
2679PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2680
fd700877
PH
2681PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2682 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2683 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2684 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2685 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2686 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2687
8dce1a6f
PH
2688PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2689 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2690
17af4a17
PH
2691PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2692 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2693 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2694
2695PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2696 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2697 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2698 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2699 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2700 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2701 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2702 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2703 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2704
2705 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2706 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2707 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2708 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2709 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2710 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2711 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2712 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2713 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2714
2715 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2716 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2717 hammering the server.
2718
c1114884
PH
2719PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2720 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2721
7a0743eb
PH
2722PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2723
0d85fa3f
PH
2724PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2725 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2726 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2727
1bf43b78
PH
2728PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2729 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2730 one case where this was not true.
2731
520de300
PH
2732PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2733 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2734 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2735 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2736 fails.
2737
48c7f9e2
PH
2738PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2739 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2740 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2741 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 2742 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
2743 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2744 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2745 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2746 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2747 smtp transport.
2748
99ea1c86
PH
2749PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2750 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2751 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2752 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2753
a2042e78
PH
2754PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2755 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2756
4fbcfc2e
PH
2757PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2758 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2759 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2760
aa41d2de
PH
2761PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2762
af561417
PH
2763PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2764
3cc66b45
PH
2765PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2766
194cc0e4
PH
2767PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2768 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2769 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2770 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2771
a401ddaa
PH
2772PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2773 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2774
4e88a19f
PH
2775PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2776 be meaningful with "accept".
2777
d7d7b289
SC
2778SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2779 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2780
2781SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2782 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2783 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2784
2785SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2786 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2787 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2788 there is data to show.
2789 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2790
2791SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2792 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2793 as well as the number of messages.
2794
2795SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2796 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2797 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2798
2799SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2800 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2801 have a flag are now skipped.
2802
2803SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2804 Added the -emptyok flag.
2805
2806SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2807 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2808
0ea2a468
JJ
2809JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2810 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 2811 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
2812
2813JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2814 match 4.64-PH/13
2815
2816JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2817 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2818
2819JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2820
2821JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2822 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2823
8a10f5a4
PH
2824PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2825
30e18802
PH
2826PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2827 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2828 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2829 contravention of the specifications.
2830
55728a4f
PH
2831PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2832 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2833 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2834
d7837193
PH
2835PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2836 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2837 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2838
87054a31
PH
2839PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2840
ea2c01d2
MH
2841MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2842 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2843 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2844 some point in the past.
2845
e4fa6968
PH
2846PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2847 transport during callout processing was broken.
2848
56f5d9bd
PH
2849PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2850 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2851
922e1c28
PH
2852PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2853 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2854
21eb6e72
PH
2855PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2856 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2857
a0540757
PH
2858PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2859
944e9e9c 2860
478be7b0
SC
2861Exim version 4.63
2862-----------------
2863
2864SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2865 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2866
2867SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2868 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2869 there is data to show.
2870 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2871
2872SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2873 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2874
2b965a65
TF
2875TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2876 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2877
45b91596
PH
2878TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2879 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2880
c59f5781
TF
2881TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2882 submissions from trusted users.
2883
90fc3069
TF
2884TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2885 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2886
6083aca0
TF
2887TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2888 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2889 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2890 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2891 there is now a framework to start from.
2892
765b530f
PH
2893PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2894 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2895 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2896
4e167a8c
PH
2897PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2898
4608d683
PH
2899PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2900
b8dc3e4a
PH
2901PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2902
5418e93b
PH
2903PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2904 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2905 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2906
b4a9bda2
PH
2907PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2908 libradius.
2909
45b91596
PH
2910PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2911 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2912 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2913
5547e2c5
PH
2914PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2915 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2916 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2917 its arguments.
2918
dbcef0ea
PH
2919PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2920 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2921 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2922 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2923 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2924
25257489
PH
2925PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2926 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2927
c816d124
PH
2928PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2929
a9ccd69a
PH
2930PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2931 operations in malware.c.
2932
75fa1910
PH
2933PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2934 signatures.
2935
a7d7aa58
PH
2936PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2937 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2938 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2939 all.
2940
42119b09
PH
2941PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2942 statements to "add_header".
2943
41609df5
PH
2944PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2945 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2946
a5bd321b
PH
2947PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2948 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2949 latter.
2950
e85a7ad5 2951PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2952 so that it is now:
2953
e85a7ad5
PH
2954 ${if or { \
2955 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2956 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2957 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2958 }{no}{yes}}
2959
e85a7ad5
PH
2960 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2961 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2962
d8fe1c03
PH
2963PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2964 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2965
16282d2b
PH
2966PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2967 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2968 any possible encoding problems.
2969
35d40a98
PH
2970PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2971 but not after initializing Perl.
2972
034d99ab
PH
2973PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2974 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2975 apparently, which is not desirable.
2976
6ec97b1b
PH
2977PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2978 queries.
2979
e22ca4ac
JJ
2980JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2981 --not options
2982
2983JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2984
33d73e3b
PH
2985PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2986 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2987 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2988 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2989
9ecb03f3
PH
2990PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2991 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2992 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2993
084efe8d
PH
2994PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2995 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2996 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2997 0.12.
2998
366fc9f0
PH
2999PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3000 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3001 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3002 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3003 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3004
c59f5781 3005
c887c79e
TF
3006Exim version 4.62
3007-----------------
3008
3009TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3010 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3011
1cce3af8
PH
3012PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3013 patch).
3014
afb3eaaf
PH
3015PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3016 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3017 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3018 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3019 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3020 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3021 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3022 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3023 451 error is used.
3024
e173618b
PH
3025PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3026
dd16e114
PH
3027PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3028 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3029 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3030
f7fd3850
PH
3031PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3032 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3033 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3034 odd errors.
3035
d87df92c
PH
3036PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3037 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3038
7e9f683d
PH
3039PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3040 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3041 option (which defaults to 0600).
3042
bfad5236
PH
3043PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3044
01c490df
PH
3045PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3046 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3047 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3048 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3049 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3050 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3051 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3052
d6629cdc
PH
3053PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3054
1cce3af8 3055
214e2000
PH
3056Exim version 4.61
3057-----------------
3058
3059PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3060 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3061 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3062 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3063 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3064 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3065 addresses as local.
3066
f9daeae0
PH
3067PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3068 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3069
7e66e54d
PH
3070PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3071
c8ea1597
PH
3072PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3073 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3074 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3075 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3076 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3077 grumble.
3078
911f6fde
PH
3079PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3080 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3081
47ca6d6c
PH
3082PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3083 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3084 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3085 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3086 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3087
ed0e9820
PH
3088PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3089 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3090 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3091 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3092
eff37e47
PH
3093PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3094 be the same on different OS.
3095
1921d2ea
PH
3096PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3097 testing.
3098
b3f69ca8
JJ
3099JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3100 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3101
3102JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3103 in 4.61-PH/06
3104
424a1c63
PH
3105PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3106 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3107 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3108 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3109 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3110 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3111 bounce message.
3112
7a100415
PH
3113PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3114 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3115 when Exim was called.
3116
19b9dc85
PH
3117PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3118 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3119
309bd837
PH
3120PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3121 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3122 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3123 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3124
59e82a2a
PH
3125PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3126 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3127 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3128 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3129 changes:
3130
3131 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3132 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3133 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3134
3135 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3136 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3137 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3138
9edc04ce
PH
3139PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3140 feature).
3141
1349e1e5
PH
3142PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3143 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3144 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3145 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3146 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3147 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3148 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3149 values from the SRV records were lost.
3150
ea49d0e1
PH
3151PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3152 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3153 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3154
064a94c9
PH
3155PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3156 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3157 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3158
727071f8
PH
3159PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3160 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3161 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3162 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3163 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3164 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3165 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3166 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3167 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3168 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3169
f78eb7c6
PH
3170PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3171 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3172 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3173
21c28500
PH
3174PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3175 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3176
3177PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3178 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3179 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3180 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3181 is given.
3182
1688f43b
PH
3183PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3184 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3185 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3186
3187PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3188 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3189 PH/23 above applies.
3190
9675b384
PH
3191PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3192 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3193 (for which there is an explicit test).
3194
6a3f1455
PH
3195PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3196
dac79d3e
PH
3197PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3198 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3199 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3200 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3201 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3202
5977a0b3
PH
3203PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3204 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3205 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3206 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3207
c91535f3
PH
3208PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3209 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3210 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3211
0d46a8c8
PH
3212PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3213
278c6e6c
PH
3214PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3215
2cbb4081
PH
3216PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3217 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3218 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3219
3eef829e
PH
3220PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3221 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3222 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3223 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3224 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3225
1ab95fa6
PH
3226PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3227 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3228 the message gets confusing).
3229
230205fc
PH
3230PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3231 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3232 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3233 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3234
75e0e026
PH
3235PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3236 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3237 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3238 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3239 same order.
3240
3241PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3242 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3243 the different processes.
3244
145396a6
PH
3245PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3246
3cd34f13
PH
3247PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3248
11121d3d
JJ
3249JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3250 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3251
3252JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3253 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3254
3255JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3256 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3257 messages matching specified criteria.
3258
8def5aaf
PH
3259PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3260
929ba01c
PH
3261PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3262 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3263
2632889e
PH
3264PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3265 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3266 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3267 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3268 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3269 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3270 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3271 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3272 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3273 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3274
944a9c55
PH
3275PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3276 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3277 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3278
4a23603b
PH
3279PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3280
4730f942
PH
3281PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3282 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3283 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3284 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3285 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3286 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3287 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3288 the variable.
3289
30dba1e6
PH
3290PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3291 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3292
382afc6b
PH
3293PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3294
a86229cf
PH
3295PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3296
50c99ba6
PH
3297PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3298
d35e429d
PH
3299PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3300 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3301 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3302 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3303 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3304 size of the count of files.
3305
f90d018c
PH
3306PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3307
75def545
PH
3308PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3309 used in LMTP mode:
3310
3311 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3312 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3313 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3314 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3315
3316 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3317 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3318 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3319
3320PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3321 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3322 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3323 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3324 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3325
c46782ef
PH
3326PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3327 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3328
71fafd95
PH
3329PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3330 will now be deprecated.
3331
2c5db4fd
PH
3332PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3333
9cf6b11a
JJ
3334JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3335 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3336 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3337
3338JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3339 with very large, slow to parse queues
3340
3341JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3342
3343JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3344
898d150f
PH
3345PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3346 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3347 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3348 SMTP output lines.
3349
46218253
PH
3350PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3351 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3352 Sieve code now uses this.
3353
e97957bc
PH
3354PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3355 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3356
81e509d7
PH
3357PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3358 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3359
3d240ff7
PH
3360PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3361
b37c4101
PH
3362PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3363 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3364 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3365 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3366 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3367
79378e0f
PH
3368PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3369 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3370 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3371 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3372
e49c7bb4
PH
3373PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3374
d114ec46
PH
3375PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3376
f3d7df6c
PH
3377PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3378 is preferred over IPv4.
3379
715ab376
PH
3380PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3381 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3382 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3383 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3384 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3385 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3386 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3387
6b31b150
PH
3388PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3389 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3390 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3391
3392PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3393
d515a917
PH
3394PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3395 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3396 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3397 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3398 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3399 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3400 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3401 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3402 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3403 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3404 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3405
9b8fadde
PH
3406PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3407 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3408 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3409
214e2000 3410
5de37277
PH
3411Exim version 4.60
3412-----------------
3413
cc38ddbf
PH
3414PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3415
3416 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3417 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3418
3419 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3420 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3421 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3422
72fdd6ae
PH
3423PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3424
3425 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3426 not a single digit.
3427
3428 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3429 string.
3430
3431 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3432 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3433 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3434 silly things.
3435
3436 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3437 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3438
3439 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3440 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3441
cb741023
PH
3442PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3443 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3444 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3445
f174f16e
PH
3446PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3447 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3448
c25242d7
PH
3449PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3450 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3451
3452 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3453
3454 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3455 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3456 this:
3457
3458 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3459
82c19f95
PH
3460PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3461 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3462 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3463 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3464 identical. For example:
3465
3466 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3467
3468 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3469 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3470 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3471
d7ffbc12
PH
3472PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3473 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3474 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3475 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3476
9f526266
PH
3477PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3478 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3479 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3480 message.
3481
87fcc8b9
PH
3482PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3483
3484 o fixes some comments
3485 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3486 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3487 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3488 and documents the missing references header update
3489
3490 and most important:
3491
3492 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3493 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3494 result)
3495
456682f5
PH
3496PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3497 Electronic Mail") by including:
3498
3499 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3500
3501 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3502 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3503 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3504 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3505 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3506
3507 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3508
3509 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3510
3511 The auto-replied keyword:
3512
3513 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3514 message by an automatic process,
3515
3516 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3517
3518 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3519 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3520
3521 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3522 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3523 other messages.
3524
3e46c1aa
PH
3525PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3526 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3527
49826d12
PH
3528PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3529
eba0c039
PH
3530PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3531 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3532 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3533
a0d6ba8a
PH
3534PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3535 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3536 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3537
f0917727
PH
3538PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3539 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3540 and treats the condition as false.
3541
096fee00
PH
3542PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3543
024bd3c2
PH
3544PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3545 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3546 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3547 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3548 not changing the active code.
3549
3550 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3551 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3552
3553 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3554 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3555
df199fec
PH
3556PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3557 (Bugzilla #53).
3558
d27f1df3
PH
3559PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3560 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3561 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3562 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3563 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3564 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3565 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3566 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3567 the text comparison.
3568
96776534
PH
3569PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3570 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3571 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3572 The same fix has been applied.
3573
5de37277 3574
9a799bc0
PH
3575Exim version 4.54
3576-----------------
3577
3578PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3579 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3580 It now does.
3581
99a4b039
PH
3582PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3583 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3584
3585PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3586
4b233853
PH
3587PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3588 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3589 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3590 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3591 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3592
8857ccfd
PH
3593TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3594 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3595 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3596 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3597 or /domain=).
3598
433a2980
PH
3599PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3600 testing suite.
3601
3e46c1aa 3602
9a799bc0 3603
e3a311ba
TK
3604Exim version 4.53
3605-----------------
3606
3607TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3608 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3609
13b685f9
PH
3610PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3611
395ff96d
PH
3612PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3613
5b68f6e4
PH
3614PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3615 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3616 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3617
1ab52c69
PH
3618PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3619 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3620 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3621
b07e6aa3
PH
3622PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3623 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3624 operating systems.
3625
254e032f
PH
3626PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3627 ${stat: expansion item.
3628
3af76a81
PH
3629PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3630 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3631
2548ba04
PH
3632PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3633 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3634 file for comments.
3635
b6c6011d
PH
3636PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3637
cf39cf57
PH
3638PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3639 setting.
3640
f1513293
PH
3641PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3642 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3643
727549a4
PH
3644TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3645
af46795e
PH
3646PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3647 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3648 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3649 the end of the subprocess.
3650
d7b47fd0
PH
3651PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3652 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3653 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3654 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3655 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3656
ee744174
JJ
3657JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3658
b582ab87
PH
3659TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3660
41a13e0a
PH
3661PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3662 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3663
f625cc5a
PH
3664PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3665
3666PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3667
21f7af35
PH
3668PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3669 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3670 HP-UX compiler.
3671
31480e42
PH
3672PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3673
2d280592
PH
3674PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3675 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3676 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3677
7cd1141b
PH
3678PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3679 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3680
3681PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3682 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3683
750af86e
PH
3684PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3685 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3686
3687 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3688 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3689
3690 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3691 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3692 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3693 contributed by a Radius user.
3694
3695PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3696 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3697
4304270b
TK
3698TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3699 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3700
750af86e
PH
3701PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3702 available.
3703
64ffc24f
PH
3704PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3705 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3706 received.
3707
5dd9625b
PH
3708PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3709 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3710 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3711 header lines when this was not necessary.
3712
5591031b
PH
3713PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3714
ba18e66a
PH
3715PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3716 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3717 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3718 exists".
3719
9cec981f
PH
3720PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3721 -bV or -d is used.
3722
aa2b5c79
PH
3723PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3724 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3725 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3726 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3727
48a53b7f
PH
3728PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3729
1c59d63b
PH
3730PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3731
671012da
TK
3732TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3733
1509d3a8
PH
3734PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3735
3736PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3737 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3738 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3739 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3740 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3741 settings.
3742
3743PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3744
2fe1a124
PH
3745PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3746 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3747 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3748 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3749 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3750 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3751 which is clearly wrong.
3752
8800895a
PH
3753PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3754
ccfdb010
PH
3755PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3756 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3757 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3758 subsequently added.
3759
1130bfb0
PH
3760PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3761 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3762
ebcb507f
PH
3763PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3764
c35e155c
PH
3765PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3766 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3767
95d1f782
PH
3768PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3769 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3770
fd6de02e
PH
3771PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3772 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3773
58de37c5
PH
3774PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3775 recipients, not senders.
3776
261cf466
TF
3777TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3778 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3779
3ee512ff
PH
3780PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3781
e08c430f
PH
3782PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3783
bef5a11f
PH
3784PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3785 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3786 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3787 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3788
7546de58
TF
3789TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3790
e5d5a95f
TF
3791TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3792 clock is set back in time.
3793
2e88a017
TF
3794TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3795 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3796
a5f65aa4
TF
3797TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3798 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3799
e7726cbf
PH
3800PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3801 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3802 (see PH/47 above).
3803
a7fdad5b
TF
3804TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3805 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3806 header rewrites.
3807
6af56900
PH
3808PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3809 type ("H").
3810
0925ede6
PH
3811PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3812
66afa403
TF
3813TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3814 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3815 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3816
0154e85a
TF
3817TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3818 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3819 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3820 helo verification defer as a failure.
3821
16f12c76
PH
3822PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3823 actual error message.
3824
bbe902f0 3825
e5a9dba6
PH
3826Exim version 4.52
3827-----------------
3828
3829TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3830
22c3b60b
PH
3831PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3832 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3833 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3834 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3835
06a9b4b5
PH
3836TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3837
c1ac6996
PH
3838PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3839 can still be requested.
3840
9c7a242c
PH
3841PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3842 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3843 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3844 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3845
87ba3f5f
PH
3846TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3847 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3848 circumstances, but probably never did.
3849
3850PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3851 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3852 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3853 in the header line.
3854
29aba418
TF
3855TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3856
fe0dab11
TF
3857TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3858 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3859
11d337a4
TK
3860TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3861
3862TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3863
415c8f3b
PH
3864PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3865 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3866 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 3867 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
3868 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3869 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3870
958541e9
PH
3871PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3872 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3873 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3874 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3875 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3876 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3877
c206415f
TK
3878TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3879 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3880
2a4be8f9
PH
3881PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3882 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3883
1cba11c5
SC
3884SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3885 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3886
4c04137d 3887SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
3888
3889SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3890
3891SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3892
3893SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3894
3895SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3896
3897SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3898
1005d00e
TK
3899TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3900
3901TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3902 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3903 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3904
3905TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3906 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3907 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3908 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3909
9b4768fa
PH
3910PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3911 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3912 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3913
3914PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3915 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3916 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3917 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3918
0d7eb84a
PH
3919PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3920 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3921 to be made).
3922
3923PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3924 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3925 should work with maildirs and everything.
3926
40727bee
TK
3927TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3928 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3929
554d2369
TF
3930TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3931 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3932
1f922db1
PH
3933PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3934 function for BDB 4.3.
3935
ef213c3b
PH
3936PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3937
8ac170f3
PH
3938PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3939 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3940 involved.
3941
b1c749bb
PH
3942PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3943 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3944 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3945 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3946 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3947 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3948
4aac9b49
PH
3949PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3950 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3951 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3952 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3953 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3954 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3955 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3956 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3957
294520c8
TK
3958TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3959 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3960 details.
3961
5bd022fe
PH
3962PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3963 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3964
90e9ce59
PH
3965PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3966 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3967 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3968 test. It is now used for both.
3969
5ea81592
PH
3970PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3971 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3972 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3973 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3974 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3975 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3976
c6c2dc1d
PH
3977PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3978 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3979 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3980 string_vformat().
3981
fffffe4c
PH
3982PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3983 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3984 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3985
9a26b6b2
PH
3986PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3987 experimental DomainKeys support:
3988
3989 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3990 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3991 the control was given.
3992
3993 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3994
4aee0225
PH
3995PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3996
32d668a5
PH
3997PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3998
8187c3f3
PH
3999PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4000 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4001 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4002 db.h files).
4003
ff790e47 4004PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4005 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4006 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4007 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4008 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4009 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4010 course.
ff790e47 4011
5417f6d1
PH
4012PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4013 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4014 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4015 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4016 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4017 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4018
59cf8544
PH
4019PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4020 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4021 do -d+all out of habit.
4022
e7ad8a65
PH
4023PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4024 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4025 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4026
ade42478
PH
4027PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4028 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4029 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4030 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4031 record types that Exim uses.
4032
182ad5cf
PH
4033PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4034 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4035 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4036 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4037 non-existent file that was broken.
4038
b0d9fc80
TK
4039TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4040 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4041
4042TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4043 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4044 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4045
4046TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4047
47c7a64a
PH
4048PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4049 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4050 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4051 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4052 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4053 same time.
4054
a388bce4
SC
4055SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4056 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4057 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4058 at a slight CPU cost.
4059
4060SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4061 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4062
4063SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4064 by Marc Sherman.
4065
0793e4ed
SC
4066SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4067
c58b88df
PH
4068PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4069 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4070
e7ad8a65 4071
7982096b
PH
4072Exim version 4.51
4073-----------------
4074
1a46a8c5
PH
4075TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4076 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4077
2f079f46 4078TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4079
4080TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4081
4082PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4083 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4084
4085PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4086 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4087 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4088 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4089 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4090 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4091 file.
4092
4093PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4094 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4095 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4096 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4097 these two options.
4098
4099PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4100 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4101 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4102 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4103 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4104 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4105 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4106 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4107
4108PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4109 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4110
4111PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4112 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4113 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4114 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4115 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4116 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4117
4118PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4119 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4120 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4121 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4122
4123PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4124 Finch).
4125
4126PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4127 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4128
49c2d5ea
PH
4129PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4130 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4131 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4132 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4133 message.
49c2d5ea 4134
bf759a8b
PH
4135PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4136
83364d30
PH
4137PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4138 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4139
7999bbd7
PH
4140PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4141 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4142 to what was transported.)
4143
7dbf77c9
PH
4144TF/01 Added $received_time.
4145
74e0617f
PH
4146PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4147 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4148 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4149 spamd_address settings.
4150
2f079f46
PH
4151PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4152 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4153 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4154 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4155 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4156
8c841523
PH
4157PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4158
7766a4f0
PH
4159PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4160 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4161 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4162 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4163 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4164
8b417f2c
PH
4165PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4166 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4167
901f42cb
PH
4168PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4169 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4170 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4171 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4172 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4173 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4174 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4175 for failure.
4176
f9b9210e
PH
4177PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4178 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4179 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4180 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4181 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4182 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4183 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4184 "input=".
4185
54cdb463
PH
4186PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4187
cf00dad6
PH
4188PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4189 driver and ACL definitions.
4190
acb1b346
PH
4191PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4192 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4193
c5ddb310
PH
4194PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4195 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4196 understands it better than I do:
4197
4198 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4199 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4200
4201 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4202 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4203 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4204 => three warnings about OTP not working
4205 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4206
4207 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4208 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4209 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4210 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4211 for each call.)
4212 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4213 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4214
4215 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4216 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4217 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4218
31619da6
PH
4219PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4220 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4221 specified.
4222
bebaf0fc
PH
4223PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4224 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4225 "Linux".
4226
475fe28a
PH
4227PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4228 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4229 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4230
4231 warn !verify = sender
4232 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4233
4234 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4235 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4236
7e8bec7a
PH
4237PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4238
4239 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4240 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4241
4242 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4243 nomenclature these days.)
4244
e4a89c47
PH
4245PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4246 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4247
5ca2a9a1
PH
4248PH/30 In these circumstances:
4249 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4250 . First host does not offer TLS;
4251 . First host accepts first address;
4252 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4253 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4254 . Second host accepts second address.
4255 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4256 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4257 address.
7e8bec7a 4258
c688b954
PH
4259PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4260 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4261 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4262 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4263 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4264
fed77020
PH
4265PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4266 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4267
7fe1560f
PH
4268PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4269 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4270
ebb6e6d5
PH
4271PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4272 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4273 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4274
9c4e8f60
PH
4275PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4276 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4277 overlooked.
4278
4279PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4280
d7174846
PH
4281PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4282 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4283 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4284 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4285 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4286 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4287 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4288
4289 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4290 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4291 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4292 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4293 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4294
4295 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4296 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4297 routed further.
4298
cfe75fc3
PH
4299PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4300 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4301 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4302 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4303 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4304 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4305
be22d70e
PH
4306PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4307
0612b098
PH
4308PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4309 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4310 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4311 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4312 printable escape sequences.
4313
2e0c1448
PH
4314PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4315 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4316 body only.
4317
447d236c
PH
4318PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4319 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4320 are as follows:
4321
4322 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4323 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4324 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4325 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4326 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4327
4328 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4329 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4330 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4331
d20976dc
PH
4332PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4333
f656d135
PH
4334PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4335 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4336 play with."
4337
2e2a30b4
PH
4338PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4339 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4340 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4341 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4342 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4343 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4344 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4345 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4346 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4347 the log output.
4348
9176e9f0
PH
4349PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4350 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4351 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4352 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4353 "make".
4354
7982096b 4355
bbe902f0
PH
4356A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4357----------------------------------------
4358
4359Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4360changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4361needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4362in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4363that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4364release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4365from 4.43.
4366
4367I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
43684.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4369those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4370historical information.
4371
4372
f7b63901 4373Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4374-----------------
4375
5fe762f6
PH
4376 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4377
139059f6 4378 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4379 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4380
7086e875
PH
4381 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4382 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4383 place.
4384
35af9f61
PH
4385 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4386 filter fails to execute.
4387
b668c215
PH
4388 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4389 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4390 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4391 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4392 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4393
a494b1e1
PH
4394 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4395
4396 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4397 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4398 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4399 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4400
c5fcb476
PH
4401 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4402 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4403 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4404 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4405 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4406
69358f02
PH
4407 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4408
5be20824
PH
440910. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4410
eb2c0248
PH
441111. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4412 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4413 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4414 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4415
2a3eea10
PH
441612. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4417 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4418 sender verification.
4419
442013. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4421 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4422
23c7ff99
PH
442314. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4424
4deaf07d
PH
442515. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4426 connection timeout.
4427
926e1192
PH
442816. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4429 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4430
650edc6f
PH
443117. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4432 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4433
2c7db3f5
PH
443418. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4435 information about exactly what failed.
4436
3d235903
PH
443719. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4438
7c7ad977
PH
443920. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4440 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4441 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4442
981756db
PH
444321. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4444 It is now set to "smtps".
4445
d4eb88df
PH
444622. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4447 ignore_target_hosts.
4448
444923. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4450 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4451 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4452 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4453 "[x.x.x.x]".
4454
7d468ab8
PH
445524. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4456 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4457 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4458
445925. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4460 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4461 wake it up if nothing else does.
4462
62c0818f
PH
446326. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4464 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4465 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4466 end up negative.
4467
26034054
PH
446827. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4469 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4470
af66f652
PH
447128. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4472
90af77f4
PH
447329. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4474 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4475 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4476 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4477 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4478 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4479 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4480 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4481
d8ef3577
PH
448230. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4483 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4484 than one IP address.
4485
5cb8cbc6
PH
448631. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4487 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4488 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4489 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4490
14702f5b
PH
449132. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4492 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4493 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4494 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4495 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4496 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4497
063b1e99
PH
449833. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4499 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4500 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4501 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4502
652e1b65
PH
450334. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4504 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4505 respected.
4506
6f0c9a4f
PH
450735. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4508 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4509 $sender_host_address.
4510
33397d19
PH
451136. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4512 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4513 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4514 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4515 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4516 very small.
4517
7bb56e1f
PH
451837. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4519
4520 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4521 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4522
ea3bc19b
PH
4523 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4524 just the host names, not the priorities.
4525
4526 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4527 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4528 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4529
ea3bc19b 4530 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4531 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4532
0bcb2a0e
PH
453338. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4534 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4535 domain.
4536
2ac0e484
PH
453739. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4538
4e1fde53
PH
453940. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4540 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4541
de365ded
PH
454241. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4543 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4544 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4545
f05da2e8
PH
454642. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4547
d6453af2
PH
454843. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4549
f7b63901
PH
455044. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4551
455245. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4553 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4554 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4555 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4556 because the tests only now provoked it.
4557
a444213a
PH
455846. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4559 (this can affect the format of dates).
4560
0ec020ea
PH
456147. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4562 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4563 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4564 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4565
b1206957
PH
456648. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4567
456849. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4569 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4570 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4571 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4572
26dd5a95
PH
457350. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4574 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4575 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4576
343b2385
PH
457751. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4578 autoreply.
4579
1c5466b9
PH
458052. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4581 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4582 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4583 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4584 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4585 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4586 is going on).
4587
55ee9ee3
PH
458853. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4589 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4590 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4591 the line.
4592
d38f8232
PH
459354. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4594 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4595 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4596
4597 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4598 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4599 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4600 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4601 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4602 so I produce this patch..."
4603
3295e65b
PH
4604 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4605 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4606 is not defined.
4607
7102e136
PH
460855. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4609 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4610 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4611 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4612 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4613
3ca0ba97
PH
461456. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4615
c2bcbe20
PH
461657. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4617 long debug lines gets shown.
4618
18ce445d
PH
461958. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4620 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4621
1f5b4c3d
PH
462259. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4623
4624 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4625 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4626 of $primary_hostname.
4627
b975ba52
PH
462860. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4629 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4630 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4631 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4632 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4633 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4634 by change 4.50/55 above.
4635
4636 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4637 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4638 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4639 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4640 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4641 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4642 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4643
464461. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4645 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4646 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4647 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4648
17ffcae7
PH
464962. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4650 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4651
d95f9fdb
PH
465263. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4653 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4654 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4655 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4656 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4657
86b8287f
PH
465864. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4659 This has been fixed.
4660
60dc5e56
PH
466165. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4662 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4663 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4664 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4665 the caching.)
4666
533244af
PH
466766. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4668
a5a28604
PH
466967. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4670 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4671 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4672 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4673
7e634d24
PH
467468. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4675 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4676
3e11c26b
PH
467769. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4678 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4679 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4680
6729cf78
PH
468170. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4682 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4683 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4684 message there.
4685
00f00ca5
PH
468671. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4687 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4688 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4689
c9bdd01c
PH
469072. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4691 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4692 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4693 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4694
d43194df
PH
469573. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4696 during host lookups.
4697
fe5b5d0b
PH
469874. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4699 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4700
4701 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4702
76a2d7ba
PH
470375. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4704 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4705 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4706 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4707 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4708 background.
4709
471076. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4711 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4712
04f7d5b9
PH
471377. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4714 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4715 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4716
bc60667e
PH
471778. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4718
bb6e88ff
PH
471979. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4720 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4721 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4722 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4723 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4724 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4725 process earlier.
4726
1e70f85b
PH
472780. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4728 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4729 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4730 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4731 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4732
473381. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4734 tables).
4735
4e01f9d6
PH
473682. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4737
1ee1cef2
PH
473883. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4739 "vacation" handling.
4740
6e2b4ccc
PH
474184. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4742 OS variants using glibc.
4743
8e669ac1
PH
474485. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4745
495ae4b0 4746
bbe902f0
PH
4747----------------------------------------------------
4748See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4749----------------------------------------------------
4750
4751
4752Exim version 4.44
4753-----------------
4754
4755 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4756 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4757 transport
4758
4759 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4760 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4761 place.
4762
4763 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4764 filter fails to execute.
4765
4766 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4767 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4768 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4769 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4770 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4771
4772 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4773 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4774 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4775 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4776
4777 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4778 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4779 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4780 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4781 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4782
4783 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4784
4785 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4786 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4787 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4788 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4789
4790 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4791 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4792 sender verification.
4793
479410. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4795 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4796
479711. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4798 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4799
480012. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4801 ignore_target_hosts.
4802
480313. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4804 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4805 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4806 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4807 "[x.x.x.x]".
4808
480914. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4810 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4811 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4812
481315. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4814 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4815 wake it up if nothing else does.
4816
481716. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4818 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4819 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4820 end up negative.
4821
482217. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4823 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4824
ea3a6f44 482518. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4826
482719. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4828 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4829 empty pattern.
4830
483120. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4832 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4833 one IP address.
4834
ea3a6f44
NM
483521. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4836 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4837 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4838 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4839 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4840 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4841
ea3a6f44
NM
484222. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4843 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4844 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4845
484623. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4847 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4848 $sender_host_address.
4849
485024. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4851
ea3a6f44
NM
485225. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4853 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4854 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4855
485626. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4857 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4858
ea3a6f44
NM
485927. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4860 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4861
ea3a6f44
NM
486228. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4863 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4864 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4865 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4866
486729. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4868 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4869 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4870
ea3a6f44
NM
487130. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4872 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4873 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4874 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4875
ea3a6f44
NM
487631. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4877 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4878 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4879
ea3a6f44
NM
488031. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4881 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4882
ea3a6f44
NM
488332. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4884 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4885 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4886 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4887 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4888 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4889 is going on).
bbe902f0 4890
ea3a6f44
NM
489133. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4892 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4893 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4894 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4895 CAN-2005-0021
4896
ea3a6f44
NM
489734. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4898 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4899 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4900 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4901 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4902 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4903 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4904
4905 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4906 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4907 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4908 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4909 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4910 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4911 CAN-2005-0021
4912
ea3a6f44
NM
491335. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4914 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4915 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4916 CAN-2005-0022
4917
ea3a6f44
NM
491836. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4919 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4920 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4921 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4922 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4923
ea3a6f44
NM
492437. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4925 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4926 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4927 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4928 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4929
ea3a6f44
NM
493038. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4931 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4932 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4933 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4934 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4935
4936
495ae4b0
PH
4937Exim version 4.43
4938-----------------
4939
4940 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4941 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4942 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4943 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4944 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4945 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4946 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4947
4948 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4949 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4950 the delivery.
4951
4952 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4953
4954 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4955
4956 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4957 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4958 to local_scan().
4959
4960 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4961 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4962 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4963 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4964 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4965
4966 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4967 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4968
4969 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4970
4971 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4972
497310. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4974 header_sender only.
4975
497611. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4977 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4978
497912. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4980 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4981 affecting debugging statements).
4982
498313. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4984
498514. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4986 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4987 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4988 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4989 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4990 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4991 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4992 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4993 after the received time, and all would be well.
4994
499515. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4996 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4997 condition in an expansion string.
4998
499916. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5000
500117. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5002 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5003 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5004 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5005 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5006 job under whatever limits there are.
5007
500818. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5009
501019. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5011 space).
5012
501320. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5014 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5015 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5016 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5017 return path is set.
5018
501921. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5020 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5021 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5022 binary data in such strings.
5023
502422. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5025
502623. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5027 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5028 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5029 failure, which is pointless.
5030
503124. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5032
503325. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5034
503526. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5036 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5037 Sender: header lines.
5038
503927. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5040 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5041 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5042
504328. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5044 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5045 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5046 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5047 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5048 happens.
5049
505029. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5051 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5052 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5053 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5054 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5055
505630. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5057 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5058 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5059 1024.
5060
506131. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5062 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5063
506432. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5065 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5066
506733. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5068
506932. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5070
507133. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5072
507334. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5074 syntax error.
5075
507635. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5077
507836. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5079
508037. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5081 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5082 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5083 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5084
508538. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5086 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5087
5088
5089Exim version 4.42
5090-----------------
5091
5092 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5093 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5094 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5095 it was not quoted.
5096 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5097 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5098 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5099 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5100 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5101 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5102
5103 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5104 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5105 verification failure".
5106
5107 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5108 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5109 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5110 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5111
5112 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5113 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5114 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5115 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5116 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5117 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5118 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5119 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5120 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5121 treated as a timeout.
5122
5123 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5124 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5125 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5126 not set for Exim filters).
5127
5128 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5129 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5130 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5131
5132 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5133
5134 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5135 try to make them clearer.
5136
5137 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5138 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5139
5140 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5141
5142 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5143
514410. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5145 only the Cygwin environment.
5146
514711. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5148 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5149 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5150 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5151 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5152
515312. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5154 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5155 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5156 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5157 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5158 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5159 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5160
516113. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5162 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5163
516414. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5165
5166 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5167 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5168 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5169
5170 To: susanne@some.where
5171
5172 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5173 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5174 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5175 of addresses in From: header lines).
5176
5177 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5178 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5179 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5180
5181 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5182 treated as non-personal.
5183
5184 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5185 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5186
518715. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5188
518916. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5190
519117. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5192 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5193 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5194
519518. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5196 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5197
519819. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5199 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5200 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5201 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5202 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5203 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5204
520520. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5206 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5207 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5208 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5209 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5210 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5211 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5212 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5213
5214 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5215
521621. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5217 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5218
521922. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5220 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5221 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5222
522323. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5224 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5225
522624. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5227 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5228 rather than long int.
5229
523025. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5231
523226. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5233
5234
5235Exim version 4.41
5236-----------------
5237
5238 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5239 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5240 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5241 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5242 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5243 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5244
5245
5246Exim version 4.40
5247-----------------
5248
5249 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5250 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5251
5252 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5253 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5254 socklen_t is defined.
5255
5256 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5257 always exist.
5258
5259 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5260 configured.
5261
5262 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5263 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5264 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5265 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5266 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5267
5268 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5269 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5270 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5271 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5272
5273 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5274 of flapping under certain conditions.
5275
5276 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5277 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5278 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5279
5280 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5281
528210. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5283
528411. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5285 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5286 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5287 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5288
528912. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5290 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5291 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5292 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5293 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5294 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5295 preserved with the message after it was received.
5296
529713. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5298 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5299 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5300 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5301 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5302 test suite worked just fine.
5303
530414. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5305 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5306 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5307
530815. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5309 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5310 string.
5311
531216. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5313 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5314 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5315 does not fully solve it.
5316
531717. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5318 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5319 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5320 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5321 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5322
532318. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5324 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5325 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5326
532719. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5328 string, for example:
5329
5330 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5331
5332 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5333 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5334 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5335 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5336 the routers could not see them.
5337
533820. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5339 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5340
534121. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5342 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5343 output).
5344
534522. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5346 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5347 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5348 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5349 that needed quoting.
5350
535123. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5352 was not being matched caselessly.
5353
535424. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5355 backslashes.
5356
535725. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5358 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5359 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5360 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5361 when use_sender is false.
5362
536326. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5364
536527. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5366
536728. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5368
536929. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5370 the configuration file.
5371
537230. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5373 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5374
537531. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5376
537732. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5378 bytes in the message body.
5379
538033. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5381 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5382 delivery.
5383
538434. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5385
538635. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5387
538836. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5389 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5390 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5391 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5392 another IP address.
5393
5394
5395Exim version 4.34
5396-----------------
5397
5398 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5399 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5400
5401 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5402 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5403 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5404 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5405 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5406
5407 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5408 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5409
5410 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5411 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5412 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5413
5414 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5415 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5416 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5417
5418 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5419 for routers.
5420
5421 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5422 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5423 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5424 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5425 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5426 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5427 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5428
5429
5430Exim version 4.33
5431-----------------
5432
5433 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5434 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5435 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5436 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5437 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5438 default (and expected) setting.
5439
5440 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5441 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5442 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5443 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5444
5445 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5446 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5447
5448 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5449 in domain lists.
5450
5451 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5452 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5453 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5454 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5455 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5456 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5457
5458 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5459 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5460 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5461
5462 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5463 part (NOT match_host).
5464
5465 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5466
5467 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5468 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5469 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5470 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5471 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5472 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5473 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5474 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5475 the same named file.
5476
547710. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5478 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5479 when Exim is built.
5480
548111. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5482 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5483 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5484 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5485 a host name.
5486
548712. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5488 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5489 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5490
549113. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5492
549314. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5494
549515. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5496
549716. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5498 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5499
550017. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5501 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5502 before starting the TLS session.
5503
550418. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5505
550619. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5507 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5508
550920. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5510 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5511 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5512 colon in the middle).
5513
5514
5515Exim version 4.32
5516-----------------
5517
5518 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5519 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5520 multiple configurations are in use.
5521
5522 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5523 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5524 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5525 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5526 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5527 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5528
5529 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5530 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5531
5532 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5533 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5534 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5535
5536 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5537 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5538 occurs.
5539
5540 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5541 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5542
5543 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5544
5545 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5546 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5547
5548 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5549
5550 -prval:sval
5551
5552 is equivalent to
5553
5554 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5555
5556 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5557 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5558 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5559 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5560 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5561
556210. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5563 Exim's behaviour:
5564
5565 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5566 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5567 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5568 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5569 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5570 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5571
5572 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5573 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5574 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5575 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5576 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5577 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5578 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5579 string.
5580
5581 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5582 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5583 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5584 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5585 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5586
558711. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5588
558912. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5590 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5591 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5592
559313. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5594
559514. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5596 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5597 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5598 information.
5599
560015. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5601 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5602
560316. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5604 Three changes have been made:
5605
5606 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5607 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5608 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5609 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5610 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5611
5612 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5613 been restored.
5614
5615 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5616 the modified behaviour.
5617
5618
5619Exim version 4.31
5620-----------------
5621
5622 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5623 Larry Rosenman.
5624
5625 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5626 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5627
5628 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5629 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5630 try to track down a specific problem.
5631
5632 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5633 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5634 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5635
5636 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5637 warning.
5638
5639 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5640 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5641 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5642 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5643 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5644 some earlier ones do not.
5645
5646 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5647
5648 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5649 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5650 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5651 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5652 address literals are enabled, of course).
5653
5654 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5655
565610. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5657 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5658 by a command such as
5659
5660 exim -f "" ...
5661
5662 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5663
566411. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5665
566612. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5667 remained set. It is now erased.
5668
566913. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5670 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5671
567214. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5673 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5674 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5675 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5676 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5677 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5678 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5679 appropriate error code.
5680
568115. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5682 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5683 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5684 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5685 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5686 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5687
568816. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5689 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5690 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5691
569217. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5693 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5694 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5695 terminate the header.
5696
569718. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5698 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5699 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5700
570119. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5702 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5703 (4.30/29). In particular:
5704
5705 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5706 imposed.
5707
5708 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5709 to write a maildirsize file.
5710
5711 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5712 the transport, the new value overrides.
5713
5714 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5715 count.
5716
571720. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5718 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5719 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5720 space or a tab.
5721
572221. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5723 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5724 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5725 the fallback hosts.
5726
572722. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5728 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5729 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5730
573123. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5732 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5733 using a union.
5734
573524. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5736 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5737 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5738
573925. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5740
574126. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5742
574327. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5744
574528. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5746 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5747 become corrupted.
5748
574929. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5750 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5751 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5752 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5753 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5754 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5755 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5756 too great.
5757
575830. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5759 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5760 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5761 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5762 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5763 incorrectly.
5764
576531. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5766 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5767 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5768 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5769 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5770 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5771 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5772 cached value only when the same options are set.
5773
577432. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5775
577633. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5777 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5778 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5779 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5780 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5781
578234: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5783 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5784 it is clearly obsolete.
5785
578635. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5787 transport.
5788
578936. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5790 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5791 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5792 times.
5793
579437. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5795 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5796 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5797 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5798 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5799
580038. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5801 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5802 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5803 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5804
580539. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5806
5807 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5808
5809 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5810 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5811 2^31.
5812
581340. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5814 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5815 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5816 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5817 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5818 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5819 $localpart_data.
5820
582141. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5822 with the -f command-line option.
5823
582442. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5825 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5826 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5827 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5828 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5829 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5830
583143. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5832 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5833 line.
5834
583544. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5836 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5837 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5838 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5839 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5840 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5841 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5842 buffer is too small.
5843
584445. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5845 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5846
584746. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5848 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5849 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5850 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5851 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5852 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5853 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5854 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5855 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5856
585747. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5858 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5859 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5860
586148. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5862 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5863 ACL").
5864
586549. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5866 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5867 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5868 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5869 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5870
587150. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5872 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5873 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5874 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5875 is set.
5876
587751. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5878
587952. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5880
588153. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5882 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5883
588454. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5885 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5886 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5887
588855. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5889 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5890 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5891 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5892 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5893
589456. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5895 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5896 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5897 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5898 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5899 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5900 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5901
590257. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5903 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5904 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5905 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5906 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5907 the test of how many are available.
5908
590958. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5910 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5911 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 5912 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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5913 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5914 new message is started.
5915
591659. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5917 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5918
591960. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5920 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5921
592261. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5923 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5924 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5925 is no long logged.
5926
592762. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5928 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5929 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5930 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5931 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5932 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5933 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5934
593563. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5936 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5937 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5938 interpreted as octal.
5939
594064. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5941 setting.
5942
594365. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5944 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5945 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5946 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5947 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5948 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5949
595066. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5951 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5952 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5953 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5954
5955 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5956 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5957 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5958 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5959
5960 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5961 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5962 is a bug fix.
5963
5964 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5965 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5966
596767. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5968
596968. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5970 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5971 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5972 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5973
597469. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5975 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5976 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5977 supplied", which is not helpful.
5978
597970. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5980 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5981 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5982
598371. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5984 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5985 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5986 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5987 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5988 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5989 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5990 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5991
599272. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5993 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5994 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5995 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5996 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5997
599873. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5999 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6000 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6001 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6002 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6003 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6004
600574. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6006 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6007 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6008
600975. Added write_rejectlog option.
6010
601176. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6012 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6013 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6014 variables.
6015
601677. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6017
601878. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6019 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6020 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6021 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6022 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6023 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6024 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6025 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6026
602779. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6028 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6029 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6030 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6031 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6032
603380. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6034 Haardt.
6035
603681. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6037 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6038 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6039 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6040 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6041 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6042 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6043 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6044 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6045
6046
6047Exim version 4.30
6048-----------------
6049
6050 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6051 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6052 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6053
6054 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6055 fixed.
6056
6057 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6058 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6059 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6060
6061 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6062 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6063 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6064 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6065 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6066 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6067
6068 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6069 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6070 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6071 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6072 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6073 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6074 the Exim test suite.
6075
6076 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6077 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6078 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6079 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6080
6081 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6082 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6083 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6084 specify it in this variable.
6085
6086 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6087 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6088 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6089 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6090
6091 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6092 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6093 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6094 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6095
6096 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6097 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6098 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6099 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6100 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6101
6102 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6103
610410. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6105 they are logged.
6106
610711. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6108 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6109 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6110 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6111 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6112
611312. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6114 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6115
611613. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6117 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6118 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6119 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6120 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6121
612214. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6123 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6124
612515. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6126 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6127 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6128
612916. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6130 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6131
613217. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6133 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6134
613518. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6136 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6137 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6138
613919. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6140 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6141
614220. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6143 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6144 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6145 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6146
614721. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6148
614922. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6150 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6151 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6152 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6153
615423. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6155
615624. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6157 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6158
615925. Added .include_if_exists.
6160
616126. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6162 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6163 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6164 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6165 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6166 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6167
616827. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6169
617028. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6171 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6172 this.
6173
617429. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6175
617630. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6177 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6178
6179 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6180 550 Sender verify failed
6181
6182 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6183 the final line of the response.
6184
618531. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6186 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6187 all other user lookups.
6188
618932. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6190 delivery time.
6191
619233. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6193 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6194 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6195 result into an int without checking.
6196
619734. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6198 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6199 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6200
620135. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6202 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6203 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6204 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6205
620636. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6207 correctly.
6208
620937. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6210 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6211
621238. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6213 to the empty sender.
6214
621539. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6216 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6217 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6218 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6219 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6220 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6221 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6222 panic log.
6223
622440. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6225 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6226 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6227 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6228 used.
6229
623041. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6231 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6232
623342. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6234 timestamps.
6235
623643. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6237 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6238
623944. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6240
624145. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6242 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6243 logs.
6244
624546. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6246 as soon as it is encountered.
6247
624847. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6249
625048. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6251 rewritten to "<>".
6252
625349. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6254 recognizes a tab character.
6255
625650. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6257 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6258 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6259 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6260
626151. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6262
626352. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6264 crash.
6265
626653. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6267
626854. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6269
627055. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6271 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6272 2822.
6273
627456. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6275 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6276 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6277 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6278 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6279
628057. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6281 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6282
628358. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6284 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6285 list (.included file names were always shown).
6286
628759. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6288 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6289 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6290 root at that time.
6291
629260. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6293 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6294
629561. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6296
629762. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6298
629963. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6300
630164. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6302 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6303 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6304 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6305 failures to open the logs.
6306
630765. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6308 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6309 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6310 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6311 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6312 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6313 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6314
6315
6316Exim version 4.24
6317-----------------
6318
6319 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6320 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6321 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6322 change 4.23/1.
6323
6324 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6325 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6326 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6327
6328 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6329 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6330 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6331
6332 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6333 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6334 causing some misleading effects.
6335
6336 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6337 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6338 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6339
6340 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6341 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6342 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6343 queue-runner function directly.
6344
6345
6346Exim version 4.23
6347-----------------
6348
6349 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6350 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6351
6352 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6353 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6354 was always written to the default place.
6355
6356 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6357 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6358 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6359
6360 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6361
6362 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6363
6364 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6365 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6366 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6367
6368 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6369 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6370 must start.
6371
6372 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6373 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6374 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6375
6376 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6377 command line option is disabled.
6378
6379 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6380 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6381
6382 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6383
6384 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6385
6386 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6387 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6388
638910. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6390
639111. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6392 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6393 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6394 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6395 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6396 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6397
639812. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6399 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6400 timeout.
6401
640213. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6403 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6404
640514. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6406 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6407
640815. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6409 received was valid base64.
6410
641116. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6412 name of the variable that was being set.
6413
641417. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6415
641618. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6417 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6418 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6419 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6420 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6421 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6422
642319. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6424
642520. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6426 nor realm was specified.
6427
642821. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6429 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6430 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6431 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6432
643322. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6434 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6435 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6436
643723. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6438 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6439 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6440
644124. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6442 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6443 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6444 some systems use these upper case variants.
6445
644625. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6447 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6448 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6449 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6450
645126. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6452
645327. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6454 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6455
645628. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6457 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6458 expansion variable.
6459
646029. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6461
646230. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6463 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6464 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6465 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6466
646731. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6468 using it.
6469
647032. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6471 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6472 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6473
647433. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6475 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6476
647734. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6478 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6479 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6480 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6481
648235. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6483 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6484 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6485
648636. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6487
648837. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6489 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6490 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6491 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6492 aborted.
6493
649438. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6495 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6496 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6497
649839. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6499
650040. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6501 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6502
650341. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6504 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6505
650642. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6507 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6508 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6509 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6510 when emails are that large.
6511
6512
6513
6514Exim version 4.22
6515-----------------
6516
6517 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6518 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6519
6520 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6521 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6522 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6523
6524 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6525 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6526 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6527
6528 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6529 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6530 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6531 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6532 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6533
6534 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6535 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6536 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6537 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6538 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6539 ever.
6540
6541 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6542 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6543 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6544 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6545 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6546 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6547 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6548 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6549 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6550 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6551 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6552 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6553 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6554 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6555
6556 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6557 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6558 parameterised it.
6559
6560 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6561 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6562 error should be diagnosed.
6563
6564 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6565 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6566 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6567 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6568 appeared instead of "NULL".
6569
657010. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6571 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6572 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6573 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6574 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6575 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6576 proceeds).
6577
6578 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6579 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6580 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6581
6582
6583Exim version 4.21
6584-----------------
6585
6586 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6587 or receiver verification errors.
6588
6589 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6590 name.
6591
6592 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6593 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6594 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6595 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6596
6597 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6598 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6599 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6600 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6601 shouldn't happen again.
6602
6603 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6604 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6605 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6606
6607 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6608 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6609
6610 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6611
6612 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6613 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6614
6615 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6616 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6617 RFC.
6618
661910. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6620 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6621 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6622
662311. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6624 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6625 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6626 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6627
662812. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6629 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6630 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6631 to define what should happen).
6632
663313. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6634 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6635 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6636
663714. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6638
663915. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6640
664116. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6642 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6643
4c04137d 664417. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
495ae4b0
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6645 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6646 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6647 structure in all cases.
6648
6649 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6650 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6651 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6652 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6653
665418. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6655 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6656 domain name.
6657
665819. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6659 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6660
666120. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6662 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6663
666421. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6665 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6666 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6667
666822. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6669 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6670 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6671
667223. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6673 the book and for uniformity.
6674
667524. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6676
667725. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6678 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
495ae4b0
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6679 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6680 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6681 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6682 non-existent command as the problem.
6683
668426. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6685 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6686 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6687
668827. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6689
669028. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6691 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6692 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6693
669429. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6695 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6696 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6697 timestamps using strftime().
6698
669930. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6700 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6701
670232. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6703 transport-time rewrites.
6704
670533. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6706 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6707 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6708 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6709
671034. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6711 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6712
671335. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6714 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6715 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6716 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6717 comma and a space.
6718
671936. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6720 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6721 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6722 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6723 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6724 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6725 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6726
672737. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6728 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6729 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6730 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6731 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6732
673338. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6734 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6735 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6736 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6737 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6738 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6739 remaining text gets split now.
6740
674139. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6742 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6743 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6744 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6745
674640. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6747 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6748 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6749 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6750 $return_path.
6751
675241. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6753 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6754 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6755 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6756 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6757 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6758 passed through if needed.
6759
676042. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6761 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6762 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6763 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6764 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6765 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6766
676743. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6768 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6769 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6770 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6771 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6772
677344. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6774 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6775 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6776 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6777 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6778
677945. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6780 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6781 noticed.
6782
678346. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6784 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6785 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6786 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6787 mayhem of various kinds.
6788
678947. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6790 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 6791 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
495ae4b0
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6792 the right test for positive values.
6793
679448. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6795 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6796 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6797 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6798 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6799 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6800 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6801 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6802 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6803 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6804 envelope.
6805
680649. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6807 module.
6808
680950. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6810 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6811 forbidding it.
6812
681351. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6814 the existing equality matching.
6815
681652. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6817 dealing with inode numbers.
6818
681953. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6820 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6821 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6822
682354. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6824 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6825 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6826 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6827 local_scan().
6828
682955. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6830 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6831 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6832 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6833 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6834 relay addresses has also been removed.
6835
683656. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6837
683857. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6839 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6840 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6841
684258. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6843 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6844 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6845 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6846 processing applies to CR:
6847
6848 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6849 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6850
6851 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6852 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6853 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6854 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6855
685659. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6857 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6858 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6859
686060. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6861 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6862 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6863 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6864 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6865 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6866 arisen.
6867
686861. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6869 program routers.
6870
687162. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6872 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6873 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6874 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6875 adds:
6876
6877 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6878
6879 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6880
6881 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6882
688363. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6884 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6885 not considered personal.
6886
688764. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6888
688965. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6890
689166. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6892
689367. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6894 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6895 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6896 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6897 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6898 header lines, and spool format errors.
6899
690068. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6901 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6902 for more flexibility.
6903
690469. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6905 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6906 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6907
690870. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6909 Sabourenkov.
6910
691171. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6912 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6913 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6914 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6915 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6916 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6917 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6918 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6919 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6920
692172. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6922 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6923 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6924 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6925 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6926 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6927 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6928
692973. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6930 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6931 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6932
693374. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6934 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6935 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6936 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6937 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6938 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6939 instead of killing the process with assert().
6940
694175. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6942 than Unicode encoding.
6943
694476. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6945 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6946 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6947 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6948
694977. Added process_log_path.
6950
695178. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6952 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6953
695479. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6955 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6956
695780. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6958 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6959 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6960
696181. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6962 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6963 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6964 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6965 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6966 were applied:
6967
6968 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6969 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6970 as invalid.
6971
697282. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6973 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6974 they will be used during message reception.
6975
6976
6977Exim version 4.20
6978-----------------
6979
6980The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6981
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