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3Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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8
9PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
10 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
11 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
12 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
13 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
14 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
15 addresses as local.
16
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17PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
18 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
19
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20PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
21
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22PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
23 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
24 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
25 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
26 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
27 grumble.
28
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29PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
30 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
31
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32PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
33 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
34 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
35 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
36 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
37
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38PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
39 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
40 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
41 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
42
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43PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
44 be the same on different OS.
45
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46PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
47 testing.
48
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49JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
50 whether --show-vars was specified or not
51
52JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
53 in 4.61-PH/06
54
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55PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
56 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
57 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
58 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
59 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
60 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
61 bounce message.
62
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63PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
64 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
65 when Exim was called.
66
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67PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
68 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
69
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70PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
71 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
72 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
73 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
74
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75PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
76 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
77 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
78 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
79 changes:
80
81 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
82 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
83 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
84
85 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
86 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
87 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
88
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89PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
90 feature).
91
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92PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
93 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
94 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
95 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
96 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
97 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
98 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
99 values from the SRV records were lost.
100
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101PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
102 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
103 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
104
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105PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
106 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
107 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
108
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109PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
110 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
111 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
112 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
113 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
114 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
115 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
116 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
117 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
118
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119PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
120 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
121 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
122
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123PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
124 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
125
126PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
127 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
128 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
129 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
130 is given.
131
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132PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
133 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
134 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
135
136PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
137 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
138 PH/23 above applies.
139
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140PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
141 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
142 (for which there is an explicit test).
143
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144PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
145
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146PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
147 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
148 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
149 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
150 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
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152PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
153 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
154 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
155 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
156
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157PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
158 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
159 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
160
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161PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
162
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163PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
164
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165PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
166 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
167 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
168
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169PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
170 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
171 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
172 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
173 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
174
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175PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
176 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
177 the message gets confusing).
178
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179PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
180 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
181 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
182 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
183
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184PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
185 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
186 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
187 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
188 same order.
189
190PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
191 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
192 the different processes.
193
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194PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
195
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196PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
197
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198JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
199 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
200
201JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
202 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
203
204JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
205 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
206 messages matching specified criteria.
207
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208PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
209
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210PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
211 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
212
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213PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
214 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
215 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
216 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
217 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
218 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
219 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
220 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
221 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
222 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
223
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224PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
225 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
226 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
227
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228PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
229
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230PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
231 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
232 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
233 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
234 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
235 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
236 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
237 the variable.
238
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239PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
240 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
241
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242PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
243
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244PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
245
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246PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
247
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248PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
249 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
250 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
251 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
252 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
253 size of the count of files.
254
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255PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
256
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257PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
258 used in LMTP mode:
259
260 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
261 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
262 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
263 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
264
265 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
266 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
267 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
268
269PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
270 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
271 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
272 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
273 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
274
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275PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
276 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
277
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278PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
279 will now be deprecated.
280
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281PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
282
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283JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
284 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
285 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
286
287JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
288 with very large, slow to parse queues
289
290JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
291
292JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
293
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294PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
295 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
296 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
297 SMTP output lines.
298
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299PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
300 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
301 Sieve code now uses this.
302
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306
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307PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
308
309 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
310 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
311
312 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
313 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
314 statements are most likely to be submissions.
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316PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
317
318 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
319 not a single digit.
320
321 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
322 string.
323
324 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
325 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
326 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
327 silly things.
328
329 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
330 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
331
332 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
333 inside the third argument.
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335PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
336 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
337 "/bin:/usr/bin".
338
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339PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
340 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
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342PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
343 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
344
345 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
346
347 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
348 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
349 this:
350
351 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
352
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353PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
354 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
355 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
356 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
357 identical. For example:
358
359 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
360
361 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
362 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
363 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
364
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365PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
366 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
367 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
368 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
369
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370PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
371 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
372 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
373 message.
374
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375PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
376
377 o fixes some comments
378 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
379 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
380 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
381 and documents the missing references header update
382
383 and most important:
384
385 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
386 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
387 result)
388
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389PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
390 Electronic Mail") by including:
391
392 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
393
394 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
395 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
396 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
397 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
398 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
399
400 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
401
402 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
403
404 The auto-replied keyword:
405
406 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
407 message by an automatic process,
408
409 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
410
411 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
412 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
413
414 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
415 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
416 other messages.
417
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418PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
419 to the default Received: header definition.
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421PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
422
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423PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
424 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
425 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
426
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427PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
428 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
429 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
430
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431PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
432 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
433 and treats the condition as false.
434
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435PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
436
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437PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
438 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
439 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
440 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
441 not changing the active code.
442
443 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
444 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
445
446 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
447 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
448
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449PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
450 (Bugzilla #53).
451
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452PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
453 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
454 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
455 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
456 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
457 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
458 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
459 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
460 the text comparison.
461
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462PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
463 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
464 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
465 The same fix has been applied.
466
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470
471PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
472 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
473 It now does.
474
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475PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
476 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
477
478PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
479
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480PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
481 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
482 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
483 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
484 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
485
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486TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
487 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
488 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
489 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
490 or /domain=).
491
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492PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
493 testing suite.
494
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499
500TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
501 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
502
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503PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
504
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505PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
506
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507PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
508 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
509 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
510
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511PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
512 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
513 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
514
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515PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
516 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
517 operating systems.
518
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519PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
520 ${stat: expansion item.
521
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522PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
523 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
524
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525PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
526 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
527 file for comments.
528
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529PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
530
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531PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
532 setting.
533
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534PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
535 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
536
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537TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
538
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539PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
540 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
541 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
542 the end of the subprocess.
543
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544PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
545 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
546 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
547 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
548 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
549
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550JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
551
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552TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
553
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554PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
555 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
556
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557PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
558
559PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
560
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561PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
562 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
563 HP-UX compiler.
564
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565PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
566
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567PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
568 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
569 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
570
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571PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
572 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
573
574PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
575 host errors such as "Connection refused".
576
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577PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
578 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
579
580 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
581 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
582
583 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
584 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
585 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
586 contributed by a Radius user.
587
588PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
589 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
590
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591TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
592 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
593
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594PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
595 available.
596
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597PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
598 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
599 received.
600
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601PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
602 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
603 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
604 header lines when this was not necessary.
605
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606PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
607
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608PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
609 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
610 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
611 exists".
612
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613PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
614 -bV or -d is used.
615
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616PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
617 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
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618 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
619 return code was incorrect.
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621PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
622
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623PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
624
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625TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
626
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627PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
628
629PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
630 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
631 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
632 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
633 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
634 settings.
635
636PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
637
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638PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
639 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
640 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
641 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
642 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
643 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
644 which is clearly wrong.
645
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646PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
647
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648PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
649 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
650 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
651 subsequently added.
652
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653PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
654 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
655
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656PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
657
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658PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
659 the "build-* directories that it finds.
660
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661PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
662 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
663
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664PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
665 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
666
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667PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
668 recipients, not senders.
669
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670TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
671 the ratelimit ACL was added.
672
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673PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
674
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675PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
676
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677PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
678 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
679 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
680 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
681
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682TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
683
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684TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
685 clock is set back in time.
686
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687TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
688 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
689
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690TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
691 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
692
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693PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
694 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
695 (see PH/47 above).
696
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697TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
698 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
699 header rewrites.
700
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701PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
702 type ("H").
703
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704PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
705
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706TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
707 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
708 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
709
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710TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
711 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
712 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
713 helo verification defer as a failure.
714
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715PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
716 actual error message.
717
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719Exim version 4.52
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721
722TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
723
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724PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
725 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
726 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
727 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
728
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729TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
730
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731PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
732 can still be requested.
733
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734PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
735 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
736 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
737 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
738
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739TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
740 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
741 circumstances, but probably never did.
742
743PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
744 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
745 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
746 in the header line.
747
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748TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
749
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750TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
751 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
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753TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
754
755TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
756
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757PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
758 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
759 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
760 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
761 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
762 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
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764PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
765 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
766 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
767 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
768 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
769 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
770
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771TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
772 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
773
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774PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
775 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
776
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777SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
778 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
779
780SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
781
782SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
783
784SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
785
786SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
787
788SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
789
790SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
791
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792TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
793
794TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
795 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
796 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
797
798TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
799 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
800 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
801 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
802
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803PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
804 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
805 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
806
807PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
808 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
809 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
810 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
811
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812PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
813 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
814 to be made).
815
816PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
817 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
818 should work with maildirs and everything.
819
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820TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
821 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
822
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823TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
824 <jgh@wizmail.org>
825
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826PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
827 function for BDB 4.3.
828
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829PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
830
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831PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
832 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
833 involved.
834
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835PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
836 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
837 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
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838 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
839 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
840 formatting function string_vformat().
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842PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
843 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
844 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
845 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
846 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
847 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
848 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
849 falls back to the previous guessing code."
850
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851TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
852 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
853 details.
854
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855PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
856 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
857
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858PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
859 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
860 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
861 test. It is now used for both.
862
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863PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
864 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
865 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
866 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
867 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
868 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
869
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870PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
871 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
872 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
873 string_vformat().
874
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875PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
876 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
877 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
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879PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
880 experimental DomainKeys support:
881
882 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
883 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
884 the control was given.
885
886 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
887
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888PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
889
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890PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
891
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892PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
893 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
894 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
895 db.h files).
896
ff790e47 897PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
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898 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
899 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
900 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
901 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
902 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
903 course.
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905PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
906 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
907 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
908 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
909 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
910 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
911
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912PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
913 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
914 do -d+all out of habit.
915
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916PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
917 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
918 x86_64 Fedora Core.
919
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920PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
921 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
922 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
923 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
924 record types that Exim uses.
925
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926PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
927 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
928 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
929 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
930 non-existent file that was broken.
931
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932TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
933 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
934
935TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
936 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
937 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
938
939TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
940
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941PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
942 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
943 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
944 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
945 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
946 same time.
947
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948SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
949 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
950 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
951 at a slight CPU cost.
952
953SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
954 as requested by Marc Sherman.
955
956SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
957 by Marc Sherman.
958
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959SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
960
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961PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
962 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
963
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967
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968TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
969 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
970
2f079f46 971TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
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972
973TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
974
975PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
976 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
977
978PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
979 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
980 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
981 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
982 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
983 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
984 file.
985
986PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
987 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
988 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
989 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
990 these two options.
991
992PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
993 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
994 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
995 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
996 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
997 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
998 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 999 address.
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1000
1001PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
1002 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
1003
1004PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
1005 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
1006 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
1007 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
1008 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
1009 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
1010
1011PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
1012 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
1013 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
1014 SMTP commands that take arguments.
1015
1016PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
1017 Finch).
1018
1019PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
1020 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
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1022PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
1023 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
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1024 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
1025 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
1026 message.
49c2d5ea 1027
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1028PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
1029
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1030PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
1031 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
1032
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1033PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
1034 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
1035 to what was transported.)
1036
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1037TF/01 Added $received_time.
1038
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1039PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
1040 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
1041 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
1042 spamd_address settings.
1043
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1044PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
1045 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
1046 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
1047 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
1048 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
1049
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1050PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1051
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1052PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
1053 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
1054 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
1055 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
1056 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
1057
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1058PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
1059 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
1060
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1061PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
1062 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
1063 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
1064 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
1065 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
1066 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
1067 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
1068 for failure.
1069
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1070PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
1071 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
1072 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
1073 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
1074 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
1075 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
1076 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
1077 "input=".
1078
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1079PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
1080
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1081PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
1082 driver and ACL definitions.
1083
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1084PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
1085 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
1086
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1087PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
1088 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
1089 understands it better than I do:
1090
1091 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
1092 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
1093
1094 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
1095 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
1096 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
1097 => three warnings about OTP not working
1098 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
1099
1100 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
1101 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
1102 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
1103 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
1104 for each call.)
1105 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
1106 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
1107
1108 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
1109 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
1110 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
1111
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1112PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
1113 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
1114 specified.
1115
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1116PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
1117 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
1118 "Linux".
1119
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1120PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
1121 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
1122 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
1123
1124 warn !verify = sender
1125 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
1126
1127 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
1128 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
1129
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1130PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
1131
1132 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
1133 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
1134
1135 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
1136 nomenclature these days.)
1137
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1138PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
1139 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
1140
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1141PH/30 In these circumstances:
1142 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
1143 . First host does not offer TLS;
1144 . First host accepts first address;
1145 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
1146 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
1147 . Second host accepts second address.
1148 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
1149 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
1150 address.
7e8bec7a 1151
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1152PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
1153 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
1154 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
1155 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
1156 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
1157
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1158PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
1159 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
1160
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1161PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
1162 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 1163
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1164PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
1165 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
1166 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
1167
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1168PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
1169 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
1170 overlooked.
1171
1172PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
1173
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1174PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
1175 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
1176 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
1177 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
1178 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
1179 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
1180 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
1181
1182 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
1183 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
1184 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
1185 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
1186 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
1187
1188 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
1189 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
1190 routed further.
1191
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1192PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
1193 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
1194 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
1195 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
1196 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
1197 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
1198
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1199PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
1200
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1201PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
1202 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
1203 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
1204 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
1205 printable escape sequences.
1206
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1207PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
1208 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
1209 body only.
1210
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1211PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
1212 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
1213 are as follows:
1214
1215 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
1216 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
1217 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
1218 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
1219 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
1220
1221 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
1222 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
1223 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
1224
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1225PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
1226
f656d135
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1227PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
1228 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
1229 play with."
1230
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1231PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
1232 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
1233 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
1234 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
1235 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
1236 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
1237 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
1238 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
1239 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
1240 the log output.
1241
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1242PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
1243 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
1244 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
1245 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
1246 "make".
1247
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1249A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
1250----------------------------------------
1251
1252Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
1253changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
1254needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
1255in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
1256that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
1257release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
1258from 4.43.
1259
1260I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
12614.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
1262those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
1263historical information.
1264
1265
f7b63901 1266Exim version 4.50
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1267-----------------
1268
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1269 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
1270
139059f6 1271 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 1272 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 1273
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1274 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
1275 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
1276 place.
1277
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1278 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
1279 filter fails to execute.
1280
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1281 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
1282 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
1283 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
1284 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
1285 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
1286
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1287 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
1288
1289 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
1290 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
1291 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
1292 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 1293
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1294 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
1295 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
1296 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
1297 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
1298 control that does not make sense is encountered.
1299
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1300 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
1301
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130210. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
1303
eb2c0248
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130411. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
1305 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
1306 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
1307 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
1308
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130912. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
1310 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
1311 sender verification.
1312
131313. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
1314 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
1315
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131614. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
1317
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131815. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
1319 connection timeout.
1320
926e1192
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132116. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
1322 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
1323
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132417. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
1325 the spool by the -Mrm option.
1326
2c7db3f5
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132718. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
1328 information about exactly what failed.
1329
3d235903
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133019. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
1331
7c7ad977
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133220. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
1333 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
1334 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
1335
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133621. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
1337 It is now set to "smtps".
1338
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133922. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
1340 ignore_target_hosts.
1341
134223. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
1343 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
1344 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
1345 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
1346 "[x.x.x.x]".
1347
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134824. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
1349 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
1350 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
1351
135225. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
1353 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
1354 wake it up if nothing else does.
1355
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135626. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
1357 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
1358 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
1359 end up negative.
1360
26034054
PH
136127. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
1362 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
1363
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136428. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
1365
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136629. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
1367 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
1368 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
1369 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
1370 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
1371 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
1372 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
1373 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
1374
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137530. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
1376 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
1377 than one IP address.
1378
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137931. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
1380 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
1381 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
1382 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
1383
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138432. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
1385 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
1386 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
1387 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
1388 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
1389 1024 to 2048 bytes.
1390
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139133. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
1392 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
1393 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
1394 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
1395
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139634. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
1397 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
1398 respected.
1399
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140035. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
1401 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
1402 $sender_host_address.
1403
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140436. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
1405 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
1406 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
1407 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
1408 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
1409 very small.
1410
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141137. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
1412
1413 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
1414 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
1415
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1416 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
1417 just the host names, not the priorities.
1418
1419 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
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1420 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
1421 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 1422
ea3bc19b 1423 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 1424 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 1425
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142638. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
1427 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
1428 domain.
1429
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143039. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
1431
4e1fde53
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143240. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
1433 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
1434
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143541. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
1436 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
1437 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
1438
f05da2e8
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143942. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
1440
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144143. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
1442
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144344. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
1444
144545. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
1446 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
1447 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
1448 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
1449 because the tests only now provoked it.
1450
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145146. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
1452 (this can affect the format of dates).
1453
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145447. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
1455 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
1456 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
1457 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
1458
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145948. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
1460
146149. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
1462 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
1463 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
1464 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
1465
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146650. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
1467 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
1468 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
1469
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147051. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
1471 autoreply.
1472
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147352. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
1474 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
1475 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
1476 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
1477 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
1478 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
1479 is going on).
1480
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148153. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
1482 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
1483 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
1484 the line.
1485
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148654. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
1487 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
1488 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
1489
1490 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
1491 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
1492 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
1493 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
1494 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
1495 so I produce this patch..."
1496
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1497 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
1498 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
1499 is not defined.
1500
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150155. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
1502 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
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1503 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
1504 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 1505 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 1506
3ca0ba97
PH
150756. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
1508
c2bcbe20
PH
150957. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
1510 long debug lines gets shown.
1511
18ce445d
PH
151258. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
1513 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
1514
1f5b4c3d
PH
151559. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
1516
1517 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
1518 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
1519 of $primary_hostname.
1520
b975ba52
PH
152160. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
1522 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
1523 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
1524 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
1525 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
1526 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
1527 by change 4.50/55 above.
1528
1529 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
1530 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
1531 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
1532 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
1533 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
1534 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 1535 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
1536
153761. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
1538 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
1539 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 1540 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 1541
17ffcae7
PH
154262. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
1543 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
1544
d95f9fdb
PH
154563. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
1546 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
1547 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
1548 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
1549 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
1550
86b8287f
PH
155164. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
1552 This has been fixed.
1553
60dc5e56
PH
155465. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
1555 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
1556 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
1557 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
1558 the caching.)
1559
533244af
PH
156066. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
1561
a5a28604
PH
156267. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
1563 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
1564 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
1565 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
1566
7e634d24
PH
156768. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
1568 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
1569
3e11c26b
PH
157069. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
1571 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
1572 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
1573
6729cf78
PH
157470. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
1575 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
1576 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
1577 message there.
1578
00f00ca5
PH
157971. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
1580 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
1581 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
1582
c9bdd01c
PH
158372. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
1584 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
1585 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
1586 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
1587
d43194df
PH
158873. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
1589 during host lookups.
1590
fe5b5d0b
PH
159174. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
1592 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
1593
1594 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
1595
76a2d7ba
PH
159675. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
1597 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
1598 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
1599 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
1600 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
1601 background.
1602
160376. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
1604 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
1605
04f7d5b9
PH
160677. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
1607 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
1608 for the non-SMTP ACL.
1609
bc60667e
PH
161078. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
1611
bb6e88ff
PH
161279. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
1613 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
1614 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
1615 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
1616 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
1617 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
1618 process earlier.
1619
1e70f85b
PH
162080. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
1621 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
1622 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
1623 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
1624 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
1625
162681. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
1627 tables).
1628
4e01f9d6
PH
162982. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
1630
1ee1cef2
PH
163183. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
1632 "vacation" handling.
1633
6e2b4ccc
PH
163484. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
1635 OS variants using glibc.
1636
8e669ac1
PH
163785. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
1638
495ae4b0 1639
bbe902f0
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1640----------------------------------------------------
1641See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
1642----------------------------------------------------
1643
1644
1645Exim version 4.44
1646-----------------
1647
1648 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
1649 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
1650 transport
1651
1652 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
1653 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
1654 place.
1655
1656 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
1657 filter fails to execute.
1658
1659 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
1660 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
1661 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
1662 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
1663 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
1664
1665 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
1666 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
1667 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
1668 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
1669
1670 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
1671 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
1672 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
1673 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
1674 control that does not make sense is encountered.
1675
1676 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
1677
1678 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
1679 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
1680 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
1681 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
1682
1683 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
1684 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
1685 sender verification.
1686
168710. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
1688 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
1689
169011. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
1691 the spool by the -Mrm option.
1692
169312. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
1694 ignore_target_hosts.
1695
169613. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
1697 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
1698 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
1699 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
1700 "[x.x.x.x]".
1701
170214. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
1703 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
1704 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
1705
170615. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
1707 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
1708 wake it up if nothing else does.
1709
171016. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
1711 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
1712 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
1713 end up negative.
1714
171517. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
1716 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
1717
ea3a6f44 171818. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
1719
172019. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
1721 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
1722 empty pattern.
1723
172420. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
1725 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
1726 one IP address.
1727
ea3a6f44
NM
172821. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
1729 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
1730 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
1731 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
1732 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
1733 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 1734
ea3a6f44
NM
173522. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
1736 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
1737 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
1738
173923. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
1740 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
1741 $sender_host_address.
1742
174324. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
1744
ea3a6f44
NM
174525. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
1746 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
1747 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
1748
174926. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 1750 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 1751
ea3a6f44
NM
175227. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
1753 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 1754
ea3a6f44
NM
175528. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
1756 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
1757 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
1758 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
1759
176029. eximstats updated to version 1.35
1761 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
1762 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
1763
ea3a6f44
NM
176430. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
1765 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
1766 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
1767 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 1768
ea3a6f44
NM
176931. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
1770 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
1771 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 1772
ea3a6f44
NM
177331. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
1774 autoreply.
bbe902f0 1775
ea3a6f44
NM
177632. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
1777 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
1778 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
1779 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
1780 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
1781 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
1782 is going on).
bbe902f0 1783
ea3a6f44
NM
178433. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
1785 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
1786 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
1787 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
1788 CAN-2005-0021
1789
ea3a6f44
NM
179034. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
1791 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
1792 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
1793 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
1794 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
1795 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
1796 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
1797
1798 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
1799 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
1800 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
1801 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
1802 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
1803 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
1804 CAN-2005-0021
1805
ea3a6f44
NM
180635. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
1807 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
1808 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
1809 CAN-2005-0022
1810
ea3a6f44
NM
181136. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
1812 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
1813 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
1814 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
1815 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 1816
ea3a6f44
NM
181737. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
1818 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
1819 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
1820 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
1821 the caching.)
bbe902f0 1822
ea3a6f44
NM
182338. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
1824 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
1825 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
1826 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
1827 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
1828
1829
495ae4b0
PH
1830Exim version 4.43
1831-----------------
1832
1833 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
1834 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
1835 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
1836 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
1837 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
1838 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
1839 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
1840
1841 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
1842 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
1843 the delivery.
1844
1845 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
1846
1847 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
1848
1849 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
1850 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
1851 to local_scan().
1852
1853 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
1854 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
1855 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
1856 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
1857 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
1858
1859 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
1860 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
1861
1862 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
1863
1864 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
1865
186610. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
1867 header_sender only.
1868
186911. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
1870 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
1871
187212. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
1873 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
1874 affecting debugging statements).
1875
187613. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
1877
187814. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
1879 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
1880 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
1881 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
1882 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
1883 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
1884 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
1885 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
1886 after the received time, and all would be well.
1887
188815. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
1889 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
1890 condition in an expansion string.
1891
189216. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
1893
189417. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
1895 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
1896 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
1897 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
1898 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
1899 job under whatever limits there are.
1900
190118. Imported PCRE 5.0.
1902
190319. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
1904 space).
1905
190620. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
1907 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
1908 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
1909 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
1910 return path is set.
1911
191221. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
1913 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
1914 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
1915 binary data in such strings.
1916
191722. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
1918
191923. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
1920 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
1921 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
1922 failure, which is pointless.
1923
192424. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
1925
192625. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
1927
192826. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
1929 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
1930 Sender: header lines.
1931
193227. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
1933 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
1934 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
1935
193628. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
1937 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
1938 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
1939 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
1940 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
1941 happens.
1942
194329. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
1944 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
1945 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
1946 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
1947 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
1948
194930. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
1950 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
1951 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
1952 1024.
1953
195431. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
1955 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
1956
195732. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
1958 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
1959
196033. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
1961
196232. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
1963
196433. Added an ACL for QUIT.
1965
196634. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
1967 syntax error.
1968
196935. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
1970
197136. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
1972
197337. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
1974 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
1975 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
1976 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
1977
197838. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
1979 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
1980
1981
1982Exim version 4.42
1983-----------------
1984
1985 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
1986 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
1987 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
1988 it was not quoted.
1989 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
1990 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
1991 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
1992 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
1993 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
1994 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
1995
1996 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
1997 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
1998 verification failure".
1999
2000 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
2001 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
2002 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
2003 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
2004
2005 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
2006 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
2007 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
2008 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
2009 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
2010 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
2011 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
2012 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
2013 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
2014 treated as a timeout.
2015
2016 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
2017 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
2018 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
2019 not set for Exim filters).
2020
2021 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
2022 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
2023 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
2024
2025 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
2026
2027 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
2028 try to make them clearer.
2029
2030 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
2031 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
2032
2033 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
2034
2035 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
2036
203710. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
2038 only the Cygwin environment.
2039
204011. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
2041 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
2042 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
2043 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
2044 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
2045
204612. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
2047 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
2048 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
2049 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
2050 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
2051 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
2052 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
2053
205413. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
2055 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
2056
205714. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
2058
2059 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
2060 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
2061 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
2062
2063 To: susanne@some.where
2064
2065 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
2066 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
2067 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
2068 of addresses in From: header lines).
2069
2070 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
2071 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
2072 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
2073
2074 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
2075 treated as non-personal.
2076
2077 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
2078 because it now seems ill-conceived.
2079
208015. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
2081
208216. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
2083
208417. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
2085 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
2086 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
2087
208818. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
2089 ACL and the local_scan() function.
2090
209119. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
2092 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
2093 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
2094 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
2095 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
2096 (I found it when inspecting the code).
2097
209820. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
2099 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
2100 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
2101 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
2102 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
2103 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
2104 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
2105 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
2106
2107 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
2108
210921. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
2110 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
2111
211222. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
2113 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
2114 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
2115
211623. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
2117 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
2118
211924. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
2120 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
2121 rather than long int.
2122
212325. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2124
212526. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
2126
2127
2128Exim version 4.41
2129-----------------
2130
2131 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
2132 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
2133 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
2134 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
2135 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
2136 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
2137
2138
2139Exim version 4.40
2140-----------------
2141
2142 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
2143 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
2144
2145 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
2146 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
2147 socklen_t is defined.
2148
2149 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
2150 always exist.
2151
2152 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
2153 configured.
2154
2155 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
2156 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
2157 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
2158 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
2159 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
2160
2161 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
2162 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
2163 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
2164 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
2165
2166 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
2167 of flapping under certain conditions.
2168
2169 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
2170 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
2171 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
2172
2173 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2174
217510. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
2176
217711. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
2178 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
2179 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
2180 the duration of the SMTP connection.
2181
218212. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
2183 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
2184 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
2185 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
2186 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
2187 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
2188 preserved with the message after it was received.
2189
219013. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
2191 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
2192 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
2193 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
2194 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
2195 test suite worked just fine.
2196
219714. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
2198 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
2199 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
2200
220115. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
2202 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
2203 string.
2204
220516. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
2206 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
2207 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
2208 does not fully solve it.
2209
221017. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
2211 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
2212 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
2213 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
2214 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
2215
221618. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
2217 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
2218 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
2219
222019. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
2221 string, for example:
2222
2223 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
2224
2225 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
2226 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
2227 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
2228 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
2229 the routers could not see them.
2230
223120. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
2232 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
2233
223421. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
2235 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
2236 output).
2237
223822. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
2239 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
2240 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
2241 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
2242 that needed quoting.
2243
224423. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
2245 was not being matched caselessly.
2246
224724. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
2248 backslashes.
2249
225025. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
2251 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
2252 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
2253 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
2254 when use_sender is false.
2255
225626. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
2257
225827. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
2259
226028. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
2261
226229. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
2263 the configuration file.
2264
226530. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
2266 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
2267
226831. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
2269
227032. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
2271 bytes in the message body.
2272
227333. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
2274 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
2275 delivery.
2276
227734. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
2278
227935. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
2280
228136. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
2282 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
2283 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
2284 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
2285 another IP address.
2286
2287
2288Exim version 4.34
2289-----------------
2290
2291 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
2292 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
2293
2294 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
2295 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
2296 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
2297 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
2298 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
2299
2300 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
2301 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
2302
2303 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
2304 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
2305 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
2306
2307 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
2308 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
2309 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
2310
2311 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
2312 for routers.
2313
2314 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
2315 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
2316 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
2317 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
2318 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
2319 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
2320 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
2321
2322
2323Exim version 4.33
2324-----------------
2325
2326 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
2327 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
2328 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
2329 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
2330 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
2331 default (and expected) setting.
2332
2333 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
2334 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
2335 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
2336 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
2337
2338 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
2339 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
2340
2341 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
2342 in domain lists.
2343
2344 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
2345 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
2346 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
2347 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
2348 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
2349 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
2350
2351 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
2352 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
2353 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
2354
2355 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
2356 part (NOT match_host).
2357
2358 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
2359
2360 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
2361 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
2362 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
2363 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
2364 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
2365 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
2366 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
2367 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
2368 the same named file.
2369
237010. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
2371 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
2372 when Exim is built.
2373
237411. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
2375 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
2376 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
2377 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
2378 a host name.
2379
238012. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
2381 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
2382 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
2383
238413. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
2385
238614. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
2387
238815. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
2389
239016. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
2391 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
2392
239317. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
2394 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
2395 before starting the TLS session.
2396
239718. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
2398
239919. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
2400 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
2401
240220. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
2403 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
2404 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
2405 colon in the middle).
2406
2407
2408Exim version 4.32
2409-----------------
2410
2411 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
2412 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
2413 multiple configurations are in use.
2414
2415 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
2416 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
2417 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
2418 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
2419 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
2420 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
2421
2422 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
2423 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
2424
2425 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
2426 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
2427 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
2428
2429 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
2430 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
2431 occurs.
2432
2433 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
2434 that used bh_ and bheader_.
2435
2436 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
2437
2438 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
2439 allowing one more file than it should have been.
2440
2441 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
2442
2443 -prval:sval
2444
2445 is equivalent to
2446
2447 -oMr rval -oMs sval
2448
2449 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
2450 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
2451 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
2452 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
2453 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
2454
245510. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
2456 Exim's behaviour:
2457
2458 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
2459 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
2460 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
2461 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
2462 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
2463 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
2464
2465 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
2466 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
2467 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
2468 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
2469 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
2470 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
2471 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
2472 string.
2473
2474 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
2475 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
2476 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
2477 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
2478 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
2479
248011. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
2481
248212. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
2483 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
2484 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
2485
248613. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
2487
248814. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
2489 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
2490 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
2491 information.
2492
249315. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
2494 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
2495
249616. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
2497 Three changes have been made:
2498
2499 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
2500 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
2501 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
2502 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
2503 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
2504
2505 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
2506 been restored.
2507
2508 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
2509 the modified behaviour.
2510
2511
2512Exim version 4.31
2513-----------------
2514
2515 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
2516 Larry Rosenman.
2517
2518 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
2519 indeed breaks things for older releases.
2520
2521 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
2522 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
2523 try to track down a specific problem.
2524
2525 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
2526 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
2527 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
2528
2529 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
2530 warning.
2531
2532 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
2533 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
2534 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
2535 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
2536 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
2537 some earlier ones do not.
2538
2539 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
2540
2541 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
2542 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
2543 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
2544 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
2545 address literals are enabled, of course).
2546
2547 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
2548
254910. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
2550 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
2551 by a command such as
2552
2553 exim -f "" ...
2554
2555 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
2556
255711. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
2558
255912. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
2560 remained set. It is now erased.
2561
256213. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
2563 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
2564
256514. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
2566 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
2567 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
2568 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
2569 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
2570 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
2571 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
2572 appropriate error code.
2573
257415. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
2575 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
2576 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
2577 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
2578 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
2579 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
2580
258116. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
2582 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
2583 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
2584
258517. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
2586 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
2587 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
2588 terminate the header.
2589
259018. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
2591 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
2592 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
2593
259419. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
2595 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
2596 (4.30/29). In particular:
2597
2598 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
2599 imposed.
2600
2601 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
2602 to write a maildirsize file.
2603
2604 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
2605 the transport, the new value overrides.
2606
2607 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
2608 count.
2609
261020. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
2611 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
2612 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
2613 space or a tab.
2614
261521. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
2616 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
2617 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
2618 the fallback hosts.
2619
262022. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
2621 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
2622 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
2623
262423. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
2625 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
2626 using a union.
2627
262824. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
2629 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
2630 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
2631
263225. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
2633
263426. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
2635
263627. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
2637
263828. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
2639 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
2640 become corrupted.
2641
264229. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
2643 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
2644 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
2645 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
2646 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
2647 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
2648 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
2649 too great.
2650
265130. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
2652 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
2653 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
2654 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
2655 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
2656 incorrectly.
2657
265831. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
2659 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
2660 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
2661 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
2662 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
2663 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
2664 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
2665 cached value only when the same options are set.
2666
266732. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
2668
266933. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
2670 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
2671 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
2672 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
2673 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
2674
267534: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
2676 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
2677 it is clearly obsolete.
2678
267935. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
2680 transport.
2681
268236. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
2683 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
2684 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
2685 times.
2686
268737. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
2688 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
2689 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
2690 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
2691 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
2692
269338. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
2694 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
2695 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
2696 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
2697
269839. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
2699
2700 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
2701
2702 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
2703 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
2704 2^31.
2705
270640. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
2707 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
2708 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
2709 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
2710 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
2711 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
2712 $localpart_data.
2713
271441. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
2715 with the -f command-line option.
2716
271742. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
2718 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
2719 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
2720 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
2721 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
2722 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
2723
272443. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
2725 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
2726 line.
2727
272844. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
2729 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
2730 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
2731 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
2732 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
2733 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
2734 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
2735 buffer is too small.
2736
273745. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
2738 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
2739
274046. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
2741 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
2742 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
2743 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
2744 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
2745 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
2746 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
2747 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
2748 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
2749
275047. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
2751 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
2752 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
2753
275448. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
2755 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
2756 ACL").
2757
275849. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
2759 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
2760 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
2761 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
2762 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
2763
276450. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
2765 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
2766 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
2767 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
2768 is set.
2769
277051. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
2771
277252. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
2773
277453. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
2775 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
2776
277754. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
2778 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
2779 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
2780
278155. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
2782 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
2783 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
2784 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
2785 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
2786
278756. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
2788 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
2789 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
2790 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
2791 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
2792 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
2793 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
2794
279557. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
2796 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
2797 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
2798 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
2799 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
2800 the test of how many are available.
2801
280258. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
2803 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
2804 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
2805 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
2806 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
2807 new message is started.
2808
280959. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
2810 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
2811
281260. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
2813 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
2814
281561. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
2816 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
2817 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
2818 is no long logged.
2819
282062. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
2821 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
2822 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
2823 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
2824 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
2825 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
2826 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
2827
282863. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
2829 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
2830 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
2831 interpreted as octal.
2832
283364. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
2834 setting.
2835
283665. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
2837 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
2838 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
2839 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
2840 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
2841 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
2842
284366. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
2844 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
2845 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
2846 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
2847
2848 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
2849 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
2850 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
2851 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
2852
2853 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
2854 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
2855 is a bug fix.
2856
2857 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
2858 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
2859
286067. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2861
286268. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
2863 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
2864 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
2865 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
2866
286769. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
2868 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
2869 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
2870 supplied", which is not helpful.
2871
287270. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
2873 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
2874 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
2875
287671. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
2877 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
2878 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
2879 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
2880 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
2881 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
2882 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
2883 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
2884
288572. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
2886 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
2887 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
2888 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
2889 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
2890
289173. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
2892 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
2893 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
2894 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
2895 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
2896 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
2897
289874. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
2899 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
2900 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
2901
290275. Added write_rejectlog option.
2903
290476. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
2905 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
2906 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
2907 variables.
2908
290977. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
2910
291178. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
2912 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
2913 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
2914 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
2915 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
2916 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
2917 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
2918 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
2919
292079. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
2921 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
2922 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
2923 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
2924 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
2925
292680. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
2927 Haardt.
2928
292981. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
2930 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
2931 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
2932 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
2933 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
2934 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
2935 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
2936 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
2937 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
2938
2939
2940Exim version 4.30
2941-----------------
2942
2943 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
2944 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
2945 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
2946
2947 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
2948 fixed.
2949
2950 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
2951 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
2952 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
2953
2954 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
2955 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
2956 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
2957 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
2958 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
2959 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
2960
2961 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
2962 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
2963 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
2964 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
2965 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
2966 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
2967 the Exim test suite.
2968
2969 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
2970 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
2971 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
2972 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
2973
2974 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
2975 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
2976 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
2977 specify it in this variable.
2978
2979 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
2980 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
2981 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
2982 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
2983
2984 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
2985 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
2986 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
2987 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
2988
2989 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
2990 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
2991 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
2992 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
2993 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
2994
2995 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
2996
299710. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
2998 they are logged.
2999
300011. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
3001 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
3002 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
3003 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
3004 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
3005
300612. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
3007 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
3008
300913. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
3010 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
3011 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
3012 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
3013 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
3014
301514. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
3016 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
3017
301815. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
3019 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
3020 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
3021
302216. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
3023 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
3024
302517. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
3026 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
3027
302818. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
3029 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
3030 to get rid of the compiler warning.
3031
303219. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
3033 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
3034
303520. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
3036 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
3037 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
3038 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
3039
304021. Added the -t option to exigrep.
3041
304222. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
3043 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
3044 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
3045 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
3046
304723. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
3048
304924. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
3050 line; previously there was no indication of these.
3051
305225. Added .include_if_exists.
3053
305426. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
3055 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
3056 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
3057 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
3058 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
3059 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
3060
306127. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
3062
306328. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
3064 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
3065 this.
3066
306729. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
3068
306930. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
3070 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
3071
3072 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
3073 550 Sender verify failed
3074
3075 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
3076 the final line of the response.
3077
307831. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
3079 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
3080 all other user lookups.
3081
308232. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
3083 delivery time.
3084
308533. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
3086 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
3087 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
3088 result into an int without checking.
3089
309034. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
3091 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
3092 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
3093
309435. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
3095 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
3096 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
3097 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
3098
309936. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
3100 correctly.
3101
310237. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
3103 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
3104
310538. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
3106 to the empty sender.
3107
310839. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
3109 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
3110 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
3111 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
3112 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
3113 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
3114 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
3115 panic log.
3116
311740. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
3118 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
3119 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
3120 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
3121 used.
3122
312341. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
3124 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
3125
312642. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
3127 timestamps.
3128
312943. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
3130 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
3131
313244. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
3133
313445. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
3135 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
3136 logs.
3137
313846. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
3139 as soon as it is encountered.
3140
314147. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
3142
314348. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
3144 rewritten to "<>".
3145
314649. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
3147 recognizes a tab character.
3148
314950. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
3150 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
3151 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
3152 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
3153
315451. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
3155
315652. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
3157 crash.
3158
315953. Installed eximstats 1.29.
3160
316154. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
3162
316355. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
3164 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
3165 2822.
3166
316756. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
3168 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
3169 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
3170 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
3171 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
3172
317357. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
3174 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
3175
317658. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
3177 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
3178 list (.included file names were always shown).
3179
318059. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
3181 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
3182 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
3183 root at that time.
3184
318560. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
3186 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
3187
318861. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
3189
319062. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
3191
319263. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
3193
319464. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
3195 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
3196 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
3197 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
3198 failures to open the logs.
3199
320065. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
3201 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
3202 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
3203 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
3204 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
3205 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
3206 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
3207
3208
3209Exim version 4.24
3210-----------------
3211
3212 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
3213 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
3214 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
3215 change 4.23/1.
3216
3217 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
3218 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
3219 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
3220
3221 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
3222 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
3223 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
3224
3225 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
3226 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
3227 causing some misleading effects.
3228
3229 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
3230 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
3231 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
3232
3233 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
3234 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
3235 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
3236 queue-runner function directly.
3237
3238
3239Exim version 4.23
3240-----------------
3241
3242 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
3243 HEADERS_CHARSET.
3244
3245 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
3246 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
3247 was always written to the default place.
3248
3249 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
3250 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
3251 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
3252
3253 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
3254
3255 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
3256
3257 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
3258 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
3259 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
3260
3261 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
3262 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
3263 must start.
3264
3265 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
3266 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
3267 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
3268
3269 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
3270 command line option is disabled.
3271
3272 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
3273 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
3274
3275 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
3276
3277 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
3278
3279 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
3280 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
3281
328210. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
3283
328411. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
3285 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
3286 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
3287 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
3288 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
3289 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
3290
329112. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
3292 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
3293 timeout.
3294
329513. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
3296 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
3297
329814. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
3299 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
3300
330115. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
3302 received was valid base64.
3303
330416. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
3305 name of the variable that was being set.
3306
330717. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
3308
330918. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
3310 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
3311 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
3312 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
3313 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
3314 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
3315
331619. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
3317
331820. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
3319 nor realm was specified.
3320
332121. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
3322 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
3323 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
3324 errors are given to SMTP connections.
3325
332622. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
3327 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
3328 failing to send a response to QUIT.
3329
333023. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
3331 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
3332 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
3333
333424. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
3335 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
3336 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
3337 some systems use these upper case variants.
3338
333925. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
3340 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
3341 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
3342 socket" when it tried to send the third.
3343
334426. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
3345
334627. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
3347 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
3348
334928. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
3350 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
3351 expansion variable.
3352
335329. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
3354
335530. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
3356 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
3357 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
3358 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
3359
336031. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
3361 using it.
3362
336332. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
3364 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
3365 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
3366
336733. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
3368 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
3369
337034. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
3371 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
3372 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
3373 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
3374
337535. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
3376 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
3377 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
3378
337936. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
3380
338137. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
3382 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
3383 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
3384 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
3385 aborted.
3386
338738. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
3388 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
3389 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
3390
339139. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
3392
339340. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
3394 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
3395
339641. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
3397 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
3398
339942. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
3400 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
3401 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
3402 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
3403 when emails are that large.
3404
3405
3406
3407Exim version 4.22
3408-----------------
3409
3410 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
3411 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
3412
3413 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
3414 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
3415 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
3416
3417 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
3418 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
3419 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
3420
3421 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
3422 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
3423 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
3424 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
3425 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
3426
3427 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
3428 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
3429 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
3430 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
3431 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
3432 ever.
3433
3434 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
3435 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
3436 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
3437 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
3438 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
3439 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
3440 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
3441 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
3442 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
3443 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
3444 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
3445 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
3446 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
3447 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
3448
3449 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
3450 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
3451 parameterised it.
3452
3453 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
3454 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
3455 error should be diagnosed.
3456
3457 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
3458 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
3459 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
3460 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
3461 appeared instead of "NULL".
3462
346310. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
3464 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
3465 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
3466 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
3467 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
3468 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
3469 proceeds).
3470
3471 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
3472 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
3473 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
3474
3475
3476Exim version 4.21
3477-----------------
3478
3479 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
3480 or receiver verification errors.
3481
3482 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
3483 name.
3484
3485 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
3486 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
3487 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
3488 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
3489
3490 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
3491 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
3492 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
3493 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
3494 shouldn't happen again.
3495
3496 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
3497 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
3498 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
3499
3500 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
3501 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
3502
3503 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
3504
3505 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
3506 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
3507
3508 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
3509 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
3510 RFC.
3511
351210. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
3513 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
3514 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
3515
351611. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
3517 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
3518 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
3519 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
3520
352112. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
3522 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
3523 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
3524 to define what should happen).
3525
352613. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
3527 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
3528 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
3529
353014. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
3531
353215. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
3533
353416. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
3535 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
3536
353717. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
3538 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
3539 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
3540 structure in all cases.
3541
3542 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
3543 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
3544 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
3545 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
3546
354718. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
3548 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
3549 domain name.
3550
355119. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
3552 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
3553
355420. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
3555 MD5 (which is deprecated).
3556
355721. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
3558 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
3559 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
3560
356122. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
3562 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
3563 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
3564
356523. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
3566 the book and for uniformity.
3567
356824. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
3569
357025. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
3571 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
3572 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
3573 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
3574 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
3575 non-existent command as the problem.
3576
357726. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
3578 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
3579 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
3580
358127. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
3582
358328. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
3584 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
3585 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
3586
358729. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
3588 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
3589 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
3590 timestamps using strftime().
3591
359230. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
3593 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
3594
359532. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
3596 transport-time rewrites.
3597
359833. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
3599 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
3600 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
3601 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
3602
360334. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
3604 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
3605
360635. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
3607 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
3608 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
3609 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
3610 comma and a space.
3611
361236. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
3613 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
3614 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
3615 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
3616 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
3617 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
3618 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
3619
362037. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
3621 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
3622 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
3623 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
3624 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
3625
362638. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
3627 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
3628 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
3629 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
3630 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
3631 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
3632 remaining text gets split now.
3633
363439. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
3635 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
3636 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
3637 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
3638
363940. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
3640 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
3641 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
3642 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
3643 $return_path.
3644
364541. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
3646 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
3647 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
3648 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
3649 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
3650 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
3651 passed through if needed.
3652
365342. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
3654 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
3655 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
3656 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
3657 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
3658 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
3659
366043. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
3661 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
3662 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
3663 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
3664 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
3665
366644. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
3667 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
3668 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
3669 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
3670 incorrect size information for certain domains.
3671
367245. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
3673 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
3674 noticed.
3675
367646. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
3677 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
3678 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
3679 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
3680 mayhem of various kinds.
3681
368247. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
3683 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
3684 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
3685 the right test for positive values.
3686
368748. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
3688 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
3689 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
3690 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
3691 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
3692 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
3693 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
3694 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
3695 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
3696 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
3697 envelope.
3698
369949. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
3700 module.
3701
370250. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
3703 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
3704 forbidding it.
3705
370651. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
3707 the existing equality matching.
3708
370952. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
3710 dealing with inode numbers.
3711
371253. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
3713 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
3714 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
3715
371654. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
3717 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
3718 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
3719 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
3720 local_scan().
3721
372255. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
3723 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
3724 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
3725 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
3726 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
3727 relay addresses has also been removed.
3728
372956. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
3730
373157. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
3732 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
3733 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
3734
373558. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
3736 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
3737 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
3738 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
3739 processing applies to CR:
3740
3741 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
3742 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
3743
3744 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
3745 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
3746 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
3747 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
3748
374959. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
3750 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
3751 This is a VOB (very old bug).
3752
375360. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
3754 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
3755 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
3756 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
3757 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
3758 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
3759 arisen.
3760
376161. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
3762 program routers.
3763
376462. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
3765 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
3766 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
3767 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
3768 adds:
3769
3770 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3771
3772 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
3773
3774 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
3775
377663. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
3777 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
3778 not considered personal.
3779
378064. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
3781
378265. Added queue_only_override (default true).
3783
378466. Added the syslog_duplication option.
3785
378667. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
3787 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
3788 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
3789 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
3790 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
3791 header lines, and spool format errors.
3792
379368. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
3794 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
3795 for more flexibility.
3796
379769. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
3798 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
3799 consulting and updating the callout cache.
3800
380170. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
3802 Sabourenkov.
3803
380471. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
3805 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
3806 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
3807 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
3808 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
3809 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
3810 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
3811 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
3812 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
3813
381472. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
3815 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
3816 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
3817 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
3818 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
3819 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
3820 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
3821
382273. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
3823 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
3824 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
3825
382674. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
3827 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
3828 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
3829 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
3830 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
3831 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
3832 instead of killing the process with assert().
3833
383475. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
3835 than Unicode encoding.
3836
383776. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
3838 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
3839 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
3840 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
3841
384277. Added process_log_path.
3843
384478. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
3845 check_log_inodes was ignored.
3846
384779. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
3848 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
3849
385080. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
3851 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
3852 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
3853
385481. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
3855 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
3856 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
3857 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
3858 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
3859 were applied:
3860
3861 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
3862 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
3863 as invalid.
3864
386582. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
3866 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
3867 they will be used during message reception.
3868
3869
3870Exim version 4.20
3871-----------------
3872
3873The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
3874
3875****