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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".
1349e1e5 151
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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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242
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243PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
244
245 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
246 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
247
248 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
249 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
250 statements are most likely to be submissions.
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252PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
253
254 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
255 not a single digit.
256
257 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
258 string.
259
260 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
261 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
262 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
263 silly things.
264
265 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
266 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
267
268 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
269 inside the third argument.
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271PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
272 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
273 "/bin:/usr/bin".
274
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275PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
276 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
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278PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
279 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
280
281 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
282
283 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
284 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
285 this:
286
287 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
288
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289PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
290 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
291 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
292 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
293 identical. For example:
294
295 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
296
297 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
298 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
299 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
300
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301PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
302 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
303 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
304 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
305
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306PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
307 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
308 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
309 message.
310
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311PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
312
313 o fixes some comments
314 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
315 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
316 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
317 and documents the missing references header update
318
319 and most important:
320
321 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
322 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
323 result)
324
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325PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
326 Electronic Mail") by including:
327
328 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
329
330 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
331 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
332 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
333 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
334 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
335
336 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
337
338 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
339
340 The auto-replied keyword:
341
342 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
343 message by an automatic process,
344
345 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
346
347 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
348 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
349
350 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
351 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
352 other messages.
353
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354PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
355 to the default Received: header definition.
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357PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
358
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359PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
360 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
361 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
362
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363PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
364 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
365 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
366
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367PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
368 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
369 and treats the condition as false.
370
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371PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
372
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373PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
374 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
375 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
376 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
377 not changing the active code.
378
379 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
380 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
381
382 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
383 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
384
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385PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
386 (Bugzilla #53).
387
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388PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
389 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
390 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
391 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
392 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
393 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
394 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
395 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
396 the text comparison.
397
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398PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
399 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
400 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
401 The same fix has been applied.
402
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406
407PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
408 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
409 It now does.
410
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411PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
412 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
413
414PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
415
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416PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
417 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
418 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
419 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
420 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
421
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422TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
423 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
424 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
425 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
426 or /domain=).
427
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428PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
429 testing suite.
430
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435
436TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
437 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
438
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439PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
440
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441PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
442
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443PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
444 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
445 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
446
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447PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
448 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
449 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
450
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451PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
452 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
453 operating systems.
454
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455PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
456 ${stat: expansion item.
457
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458PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
459 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
460
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461PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
462 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
463 file for comments.
464
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465PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
466
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467PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
468 setting.
469
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470PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
471 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
472
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473TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
474
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475PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
476 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
477 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
478 the end of the subprocess.
479
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480PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
481 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
482 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
483 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
484 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
485
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486JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
487
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488TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
489
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490PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
491 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
492
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493PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
494
495PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
496
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497PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
498 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
499 HP-UX compiler.
500
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501PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
502
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503PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
504 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
505 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
506
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507PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
508 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
509
510PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
511 host errors such as "Connection refused".
512
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513PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
514 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
515
516 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
517 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
518
519 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
520 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
521 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
522 contributed by a Radius user.
523
524PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
525 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
526
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527TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
528 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
529
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530PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
531 available.
532
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533PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
534 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
535 received.
536
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537PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
538 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
539 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
540 header lines when this was not necessary.
541
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542PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
543
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544PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
545 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
546 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
547 exists".
548
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549PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
550 -bV or -d is used.
551
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552PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
553 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
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554 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
555 return code was incorrect.
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557PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
558
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559PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
560
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561TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
562
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563PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
564
565PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
566 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
567 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
568 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
569 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
570 settings.
571
572PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
573
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574PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
575 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
576 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
577 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
578 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
579 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
580 which is clearly wrong.
581
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582PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
583
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584PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
585 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
586 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
587 subsequently added.
588
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589PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
590 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
591
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592PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
593
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594PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
595 the "build-* directories that it finds.
596
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597PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
598 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
599
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600PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
601 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
602
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603PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
604 recipients, not senders.
605
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606TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
607 the ratelimit ACL was added.
608
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609PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
610
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611PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
612
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613PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
614 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
615 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
616 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
617
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618TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
619
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620TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
621 clock is set back in time.
622
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623TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
624 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
625
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626TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
627 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
628
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629PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
630 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
631 (see PH/47 above).
632
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633TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
634 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
635 header rewrites.
636
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637PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
638 type ("H").
639
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640PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
641
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642TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
643 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
644 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
645
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646TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
647 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
648 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
649 helo verification defer as a failure.
650
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651PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
652 actual error message.
653
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655Exim version 4.52
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657
658TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
659
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660PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
661 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
662 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
663 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
664
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665TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
666
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667PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
668 can still be requested.
669
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670PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
671 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
672 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
673 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
674
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675TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
676 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
677 circumstances, but probably never did.
678
679PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
680 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
681 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
682 in the header line.
683
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684TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
685
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686TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
687 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
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689TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
690
691TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
692
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693PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
694 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
695 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
696 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
697 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
698 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
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700PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
701 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
702 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
703 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
704 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
705 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
706
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707TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
708 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
709
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710PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
711 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
712
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713SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
714 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
715
716SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
717
718SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
719
720SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
721
722SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
723
724SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
725
726SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
727
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728TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
729
730TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
731 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
732 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
733
734TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
735 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
736 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
737 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
738
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739PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
740 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
741 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
742
743PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
744 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
745 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
746 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
747
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748PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
749 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
750 to be made).
751
752PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
753 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
754 should work with maildirs and everything.
755
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756TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
757 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
758
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759TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
760 <jgh@wizmail.org>
761
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762PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
763 function for BDB 4.3.
764
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765PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
766
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767PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
768 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
769 involved.
770
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771PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
772 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
773 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
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774 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
775 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
776 formatting function string_vformat().
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778PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
779 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
780 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
781 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
782 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
783 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
784 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
785 falls back to the previous guessing code."
786
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787TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
788 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
789 details.
790
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791PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
792 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
793
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794PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
795 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
796 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
797 test. It is now used for both.
798
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799PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
800 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
801 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
802 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
803 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
804 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
805
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806PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
807 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
808 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
809 string_vformat().
810
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811PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
812 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
813 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
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815PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
816 experimental DomainKeys support:
817
818 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
819 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
820 the control was given.
821
822 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
823
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824PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
825
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826PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
827
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828PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
829 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
830 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
831 db.h files).
832
ff790e47 833PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
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834 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
835 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
836 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
837 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
838 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
839 course.
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841PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
842 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
843 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
844 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
845 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
846 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
847
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848PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
849 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
850 do -d+all out of habit.
851
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852PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
853 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
854 x86_64 Fedora Core.
855
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856PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
857 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
858 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
859 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
860 record types that Exim uses.
861
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862PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
863 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
864 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
865 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
866 non-existent file that was broken.
867
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868TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
869 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
870
871TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
872 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
873 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
874
875TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
876
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877PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
878 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
879 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
880 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
881 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
882 same time.
883
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884SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
885 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
886 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
887 at a slight CPU cost.
888
889SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
890 as requested by Marc Sherman.
891
892SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
893 by Marc Sherman.
894
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895SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
896
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897PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
898 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
899
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901Exim version 4.51
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903
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904TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
905 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
906
2f079f46 907TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
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908
909TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
910
911PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
912 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
913
914PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
915 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
916 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
917 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
918 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
919 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
920 file.
921
922PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
923 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
924 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
925 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
926 these two options.
927
928PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
929 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
930 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
931 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
932 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
933 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
934 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 935 address.
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936
937PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
938 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
939
940PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
941 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
942 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
943 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
944 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
945 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
946
947PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
948 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
949 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
950 SMTP commands that take arguments.
951
952PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
953 Finch).
954
955PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
956 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 957
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958PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
959 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
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960 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
961 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
962 message.
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964PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
965
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966PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
967 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
968
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969PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
970 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
971 to what was transported.)
972
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973TF/01 Added $received_time.
974
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975PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
976 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
977 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
978 spamd_address settings.
979
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980PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
981 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
982 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
983 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
984 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
985
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986PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
987
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988PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
989 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
990 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
991 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
992 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
993
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994PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
995 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
996
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997PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
998 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
999 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
1000 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
1001 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
1002 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
1003 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
1004 for failure.
1005
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1006PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
1007 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
1008 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
1009 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
1010 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
1011 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
1012 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
1013 "input=".
1014
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1015PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
1016
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1017PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
1018 driver and ACL definitions.
1019
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1020PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
1021 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
1022
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1023PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
1024 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
1025 understands it better than I do:
1026
1027 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
1028 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
1029
1030 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
1031 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
1032 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
1033 => three warnings about OTP not working
1034 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
1035
1036 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
1037 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
1038 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
1039 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
1040 for each call.)
1041 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
1042 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
1043
1044 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
1045 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
1046 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
1047
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1048PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
1049 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
1050 specified.
1051
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1052PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
1053 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
1054 "Linux".
1055
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1056PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
1057 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
1058 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
1059
1060 warn !verify = sender
1061 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
1062
1063 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
1064 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
1065
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1066PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
1067
1068 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
1069 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
1070
1071 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
1072 nomenclature these days.)
1073
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1074PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
1075 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
1076
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1077PH/30 In these circumstances:
1078 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
1079 . First host does not offer TLS;
1080 . First host accepts first address;
1081 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
1082 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
1083 . Second host accepts second address.
1084 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
1085 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
1086 address.
7e8bec7a 1087
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1088PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
1089 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
1090 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
1091 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
1092 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
1093
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1094PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
1095 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
1096
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1097PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
1098 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 1099
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1100PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
1101 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
1102 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
1103
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1104PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
1105 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
1106 overlooked.
1107
1108PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
1109
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1110PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
1111 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
1112 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
1113 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
1114 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
1115 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
1116 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
1117
1118 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
1119 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
1120 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
1121 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
1122 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
1123
1124 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
1125 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
1126 routed further.
1127
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1128PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
1129 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
1130 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
1131 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
1132 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
1133 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
1134
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1135PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
1136
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1137PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
1138 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
1139 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
1140 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
1141 printable escape sequences.
1142
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1143PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
1144 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
1145 body only.
1146
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1147PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
1148 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
1149 are as follows:
1150
1151 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
1152 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
1153 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
1154 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
1155 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
1156
1157 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
1158 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
1159 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
1160
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1161PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
1162
f656d135
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1163PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
1164 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
1165 play with."
1166
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1167PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
1168 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
1169 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
1170 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
1171 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
1172 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
1173 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
1174 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
1175 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
1176 the log output.
1177
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1178PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
1179 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
1180 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
1181 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
1182 "make".
1183
7982096b 1184
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1185A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
1186----------------------------------------
1187
1188Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
1189changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
1190needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
1191in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
1192that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
1193release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
1194from 4.43.
1195
1196I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
11974.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
1198those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
1199historical information.
1200
1201
f7b63901 1202Exim version 4.50
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1203-----------------
1204
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1205 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
1206
139059f6 1207 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 1208 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 1209
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1210 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
1211 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
1212 place.
1213
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1214 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
1215 filter fails to execute.
1216
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1217 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
1218 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
1219 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
1220 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
1221 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
1222
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1223 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
1224
1225 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
1226 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
1227 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
1228 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 1229
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1230 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
1231 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
1232 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
1233 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
1234 control that does not make sense is encountered.
1235
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1236 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
1237
5be20824
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123810. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
1239
eb2c0248
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124011. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
1241 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
1242 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
1243 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
1244
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124512. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
1246 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
1247 sender verification.
1248
124913. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
1250 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
1251
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125214. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
1253
4deaf07d
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125415. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
1255 connection timeout.
1256
926e1192
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125716. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
1258 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
1259
650edc6f
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126017. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
1261 the spool by the -Mrm option.
1262
2c7db3f5
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126318. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
1264 information about exactly what failed.
1265
3d235903
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126619. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
1267
7c7ad977
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126820. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
1269 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
1270 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
1271
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127221. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
1273 It is now set to "smtps".
1274
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127522. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
1276 ignore_target_hosts.
1277
127823. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
1279 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
1280 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
1281 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
1282 "[x.x.x.x]".
1283
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128424. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
1285 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
1286 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
1287
128825. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
1289 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
1290 wake it up if nothing else does.
1291
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129226. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
1293 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
1294 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
1295 end up negative.
1296
26034054
PH
129727. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
1298 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
1299
af66f652
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130028. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
1301
90af77f4
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130229. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
1303 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
1304 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
1305 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
1306 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
1307 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
1308 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
1309 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
1310
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131130. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
1312 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
1313 than one IP address.
1314
5cb8cbc6
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131531. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
1316 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
1317 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
1318 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
1319
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132032. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
1321 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
1322 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
1323 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
1324 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
1325 1024 to 2048 bytes.
1326
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132733. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
1328 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
1329 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
1330 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
1331
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133234. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
1333 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
1334 respected.
1335
6f0c9a4f
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133635. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
1337 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
1338 $sender_host_address.
1339
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134036. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
1341 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
1342 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
1343 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
1344 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
1345 very small.
1346
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134737. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
1348
1349 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
1350 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
1351
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1352 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
1353 just the host names, not the priorities.
1354
1355 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
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1356 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
1357 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 1358
ea3bc19b 1359 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 1360 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 1361
0bcb2a0e
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136238. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
1363 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
1364 domain.
1365
2ac0e484
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136639. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
1367
4e1fde53
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136840. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
1369 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
1370
de365ded
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137141. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
1372 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
1373 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
1374
f05da2e8
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137542. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
1376
d6453af2
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137743. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
1378
f7b63901
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137944. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
1380
138145. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
1382 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
1383 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
1384 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
1385 because the tests only now provoked it.
1386
a444213a
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138746. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
1388 (this can affect the format of dates).
1389
0ec020ea
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139047. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
1391 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
1392 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
1393 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
1394
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139548. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
1396
139749. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
1398 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
1399 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
1400 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
1401
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140250. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
1403 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
1404 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
1405
343b2385
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140651. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
1407 autoreply.
1408
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140952. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
1410 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
1411 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
1412 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
1413 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
1414 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
1415 is going on).
1416
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141753. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
1418 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
1419 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
1420 the line.
1421
d38f8232
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142254. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
1423 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
1424 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
1425
1426 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
1427 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
1428 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
1429 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
1430 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
1431 so I produce this patch..."
1432
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1433 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
1434 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
1435 is not defined.
1436
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143755. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
1438 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
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1439 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
1440 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 1441 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 1442
3ca0ba97
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144356. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
1444
c2bcbe20
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144557. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
1446 long debug lines gets shown.
1447
18ce445d
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144858. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
1449 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
1450
1f5b4c3d
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145159. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
1452
1453 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
1454 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
1455 of $primary_hostname.
1456
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145760. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
1458 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
1459 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
1460 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
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1461 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
1462 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
1463 by change 4.50/55 above.
1464
1465 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
1466 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
1467 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
1468 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
1469 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
1470 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 1471 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
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1472
147361. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
1474 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
1475 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 1476 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 1477
17ffcae7
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147862. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
1479 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
1480
d95f9fdb
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148163. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
1482 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
1483 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
1484 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
1485 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
1486
86b8287f
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148764. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
1488 This has been fixed.
1489
60dc5e56
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149065. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
1491 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
1492 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
1493 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
1494 the caching.)
1495
533244af
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149666. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
1497
a5a28604
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149867. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
1499 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
1500 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
1501 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
1502
7e634d24
PH
150368. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
1504 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
1505
3e11c26b
PH
150669. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
1507 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
1508 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
1509
6729cf78
PH
151070. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
1511 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
1512 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
1513 message there.
1514
00f00ca5
PH
151571. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
1516 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
1517 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
1518
c9bdd01c
PH
151972. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
1520 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
1521 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
1522 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
1523
d43194df
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152473. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
1525 during host lookups.
1526
fe5b5d0b
PH
152774. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
1528 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
1529
1530 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
1531
76a2d7ba
PH
153275. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
1533 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
1534 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
1535 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
1536 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
1537 background.
1538
153976. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
1540 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
1541
04f7d5b9
PH
154277. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
1543 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
1544 for the non-SMTP ACL.
1545
bc60667e
PH
154678. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
1547
bb6e88ff
PH
154879. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
1549 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
1550 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
1551 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
1552 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
1553 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
1554 process earlier.
1555
1e70f85b
PH
155680. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
1557 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
1558 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
1559 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
1560 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
1561
156281. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
1563 tables).
1564
4e01f9d6
PH
156582. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
1566
1ee1cef2
PH
156783. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
1568 "vacation" handling.
1569
6e2b4ccc
PH
157084. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
1571 OS variants using glibc.
1572
8e669ac1
PH
157385. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
1574
495ae4b0 1575
bbe902f0
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1576----------------------------------------------------
1577See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
1578----------------------------------------------------
1579
1580
1581Exim version 4.44
1582-----------------
1583
1584 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
1585 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
1586 transport
1587
1588 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
1589 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
1590 place.
1591
1592 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
1593 filter fails to execute.
1594
1595 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
1596 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
1597 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
1598 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
1599 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
1600
1601 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
1602 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
1603 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
1604 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
1605
1606 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
1607 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
1608 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
1609 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
1610 control that does not make sense is encountered.
1611
1612 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
1613
1614 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
1615 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
1616 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
1617 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
1618
1619 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
1620 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
1621 sender verification.
1622
162310. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
1624 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
1625
162611. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
1627 the spool by the -Mrm option.
1628
162912. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
1630 ignore_target_hosts.
1631
163213. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
1633 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
1634 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
1635 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
1636 "[x.x.x.x]".
1637
163814. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
1639 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
1640 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
1641
164215. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
1643 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
1644 wake it up if nothing else does.
1645
164616. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
1647 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
1648 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
1649 end up negative.
1650
165117. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
1652 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
1653
ea3a6f44 165418. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
1655
165619. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
1657 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
1658 empty pattern.
1659
166020. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
1661 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
1662 one IP address.
1663
ea3a6f44
NM
166421. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
1665 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
1666 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
1667 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
1668 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
1669 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 1670
ea3a6f44
NM
167122. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
1672 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
1673 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
1674
167523. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
1676 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
1677 $sender_host_address.
1678
167924. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
1680
ea3a6f44
NM
168125. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
1682 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
1683 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
1684
168526. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 1686 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 1687
ea3a6f44
NM
168827. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
1689 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 1690
ea3a6f44
NM
169128. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
1692 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
1693 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
1694 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
1695
169629. eximstats updated to version 1.35
1697 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
1698 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
1699
ea3a6f44
NM
170030. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
1701 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
1702 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
1703 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 1704
ea3a6f44
NM
170531. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
1706 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
1707 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 1708
ea3a6f44
NM
170931. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
1710 autoreply.
bbe902f0 1711
ea3a6f44
NM
171232. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
1713 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
1714 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
1715 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
1716 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
1717 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
1718 is going on).
bbe902f0 1719
ea3a6f44
NM
172033. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
1721 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
1722 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
1723 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
1724 CAN-2005-0021
1725
ea3a6f44
NM
172634. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
1727 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
1728 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
1729 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
1730 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
1731 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
1732 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
1733
1734 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
1735 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
1736 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
1737 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
1738 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
1739 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
1740 CAN-2005-0021
1741
ea3a6f44
NM
174235. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
1743 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
1744 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
1745 CAN-2005-0022
1746
ea3a6f44
NM
174736. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
1748 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
1749 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
1750 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
1751 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 1752
ea3a6f44
NM
175337. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
1754 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
1755 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
1756 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
1757 the caching.)
bbe902f0 1758
ea3a6f44
NM
175938. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
1760 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
1761 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
1762 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
1763 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
1764
1765
495ae4b0
PH
1766Exim version 4.43
1767-----------------
1768
1769 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
1770 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
1771 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
1772 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
1773 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
1774 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
1775 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
1776
1777 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
1778 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
1779 the delivery.
1780
1781 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
1782
1783 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
1784
1785 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
1786 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
1787 to local_scan().
1788
1789 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
1790 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
1791 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
1792 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
1793 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
1794
1795 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
1796 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
1797
1798 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
1799
1800 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
1801
180210. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
1803 header_sender only.
1804
180511. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
1806 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
1807
180812. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
1809 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
1810 affecting debugging statements).
1811
181213. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
1813
181414. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
1815 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
1816 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
1817 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
1818 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
1819 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
1820 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
1821 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
1822 after the received time, and all would be well.
1823
182415. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
1825 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
1826 condition in an expansion string.
1827
182816. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
1829
183017. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
1831 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
1832 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
1833 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
1834 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
1835 job under whatever limits there are.
1836
183718. Imported PCRE 5.0.
1838
183919. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
1840 space).
1841
184220. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
1843 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
1844 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
1845 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
1846 return path is set.
1847
184821. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
1849 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
1850 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
1851 binary data in such strings.
1852
185322. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
1854
185523. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
1856 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
1857 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
1858 failure, which is pointless.
1859
186024. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
1861
186225. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
1863
186426. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
1865 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
1866 Sender: header lines.
1867
186827. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
1869 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
1870 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
1871
187228. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
1873 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
1874 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
1875 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
1876 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
1877 happens.
1878
187929. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
1880 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
1881 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
1882 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
1883 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
1884
188530. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
1886 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
1887 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
1888 1024.
1889
189031. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
1891 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
1892
189332. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
1894 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
1895
189633. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
1897
189832. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
1899
190033. Added an ACL for QUIT.
1901
190234. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
1903 syntax error.
1904
190535. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
1906
190736. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
1908
190937. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
1910 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
1911 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
1912 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
1913
191438. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
1915 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
1916
1917
1918Exim version 4.42
1919-----------------
1920
1921 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
1922 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
1923 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
1924 it was not quoted.
1925 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
1926 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
1927 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
1928 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
1929 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
1930 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
1931
1932 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
1933 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
1934 verification failure".
1935
1936 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
1937 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
1938 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
1939 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
1940
1941 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
1942 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
1943 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
1944 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
1945 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
1946 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
1947 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
1948 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
1949 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
1950 treated as a timeout.
1951
1952 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
1953 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
1954 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
1955 not set for Exim filters).
1956
1957 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
1958 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
1959 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
1960
1961 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
1962
1963 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
1964 try to make them clearer.
1965
1966 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
1967 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
1968
1969 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
1970
1971 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
1972
197310. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
1974 only the Cygwin environment.
1975
197611. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
1977 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
1978 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
1979 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
1980 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
1981
198212. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
1983 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
1984 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
1985 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
1986 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
1987 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
1988 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
1989
199013. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
1991 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
1992
199314. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
1994
1995 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
1996 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
1997 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
1998
1999 To: susanne@some.where
2000
2001 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
2002 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
2003 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
2004 of addresses in From: header lines).
2005
2006 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
2007 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
2008 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
2009
2010 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
2011 treated as non-personal.
2012
2013 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
2014 because it now seems ill-conceived.
2015
201615. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
2017
201816. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
2019
202017. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
2021 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
2022 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
2023
202418. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
2025 ACL and the local_scan() function.
2026
202719. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
2028 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
2029 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
2030 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
2031 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
2032 (I found it when inspecting the code).
2033
203420. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
2035 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
2036 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
2037 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
2038 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
2039 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
2040 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
2041 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
2042
2043 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
2044
204521. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
2046 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
2047
204822. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
2049 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
2050 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
2051
205223. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
2053 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
2054
205524. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
2056 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
2057 rather than long int.
2058
205925. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2060
206126. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
2062
2063
2064Exim version 4.41
2065-----------------
2066
2067 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
2068 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
2069 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
2070 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
2071 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
2072 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
2073
2074
2075Exim version 4.40
2076-----------------
2077
2078 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
2079 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
2080
2081 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
2082 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
2083 socklen_t is defined.
2084
2085 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
2086 always exist.
2087
2088 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
2089 configured.
2090
2091 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
2092 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
2093 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
2094 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
2095 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
2096
2097 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
2098 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
2099 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
2100 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
2101
2102 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
2103 of flapping under certain conditions.
2104
2105 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
2106 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
2107 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
2108
2109 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2110
211110. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
2112
211311. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
2114 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
2115 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
2116 the duration of the SMTP connection.
2117
211812. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
2119 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
2120 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
2121 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
2122 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
2123 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
2124 preserved with the message after it was received.
2125
212613. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
2127 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
2128 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
2129 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
2130 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
2131 test suite worked just fine.
2132
213314. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
2134 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
2135 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
2136
213715. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
2138 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
2139 string.
2140
214116. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
2142 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
2143 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
2144 does not fully solve it.
2145
214617. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
2147 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
2148 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
2149 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
2150 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
2151
215218. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
2153 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
2154 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
2155
215619. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
2157 string, for example:
2158
2159 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
2160
2161 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
2162 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
2163 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
2164 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
2165 the routers could not see them.
2166
216720. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
2168 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
2169
217021. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
2171 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
2172 output).
2173
217422. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
2175 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
2176 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
2177 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
2178 that needed quoting.
2179
218023. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
2181 was not being matched caselessly.
2182
218324. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
2184 backslashes.
2185
218625. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
2187 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
2188 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
2189 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
2190 when use_sender is false.
2191
219226. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
2193
219427. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
2195
219628. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
2197
219829. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
2199 the configuration file.
2200
220130. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
2202 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
2203
220431. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
2205
220632. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
2207 bytes in the message body.
2208
220933. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
2210 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
2211 delivery.
2212
221334. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
2214
221535. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
2216
221736. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
2218 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
2219 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
2220 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
2221 another IP address.
2222
2223
2224Exim version 4.34
2225-----------------
2226
2227 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
2228 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
2229
2230 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
2231 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
2232 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
2233 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
2234 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
2235
2236 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
2237 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
2238
2239 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
2240 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
2241 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
2242
2243 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
2244 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
2245 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
2246
2247 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
2248 for routers.
2249
2250 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
2251 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
2252 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
2253 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
2254 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
2255 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
2256 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
2257
2258
2259Exim version 4.33
2260-----------------
2261
2262 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
2263 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
2264 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
2265 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
2266 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
2267 default (and expected) setting.
2268
2269 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
2270 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
2271 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
2272 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
2273
2274 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
2275 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
2276
2277 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
2278 in domain lists.
2279
2280 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
2281 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
2282 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
2283 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
2284 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
2285 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
2286
2287 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
2288 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
2289 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
2290
2291 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
2292 part (NOT match_host).
2293
2294 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
2295
2296 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
2297 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
2298 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
2299 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
2300 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
2301 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
2302 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
2303 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
2304 the same named file.
2305
230610. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
2307 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
2308 when Exim is built.
2309
231011. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
2311 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
2312 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
2313 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
2314 a host name.
2315
231612. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
2317 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
2318 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
2319
232013. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
2321
232214. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
2323
232415. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
2325
232616. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
2327 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
2328
232917. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
2330 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
2331 before starting the TLS session.
2332
233318. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
2334
233519. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
2336 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
2337
233820. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
2339 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
2340 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
2341 colon in the middle).
2342
2343
2344Exim version 4.32
2345-----------------
2346
2347 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
2348 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
2349 multiple configurations are in use.
2350
2351 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
2352 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
2353 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
2354 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
2355 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
2356 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
2357
2358 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
2359 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
2360
2361 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
2362 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
2363 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
2364
2365 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
2366 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
2367 occurs.
2368
2369 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
2370 that used bh_ and bheader_.
2371
2372 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
2373
2374 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
2375 allowing one more file than it should have been.
2376
2377 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
2378
2379 -prval:sval
2380
2381 is equivalent to
2382
2383 -oMr rval -oMs sval
2384
2385 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
2386 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
2387 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
2388 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
2389 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
2390
239110. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
2392 Exim's behaviour:
2393
2394 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
2395 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
2396 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
2397 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
2398 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
2399 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
2400
2401 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
2402 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
2403 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
2404 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
2405 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
2406 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
2407 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
2408 string.
2409
2410 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
2411 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
2412 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
2413 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
2414 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
2415
241611. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
2417
241812. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
2419 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
2420 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
2421
242213. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
2423
242414. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
2425 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
2426 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
2427 information.
2428
242915. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
2430 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
2431
243216. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
2433 Three changes have been made:
2434
2435 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
2436 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
2437 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
2438 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
2439 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
2440
2441 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
2442 been restored.
2443
2444 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
2445 the modified behaviour.
2446
2447
2448Exim version 4.31
2449-----------------
2450
2451 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
2452 Larry Rosenman.
2453
2454 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
2455 indeed breaks things for older releases.
2456
2457 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
2458 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
2459 try to track down a specific problem.
2460
2461 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
2462 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
2463 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
2464
2465 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
2466 warning.
2467
2468 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
2469 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
2470 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
2471 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
2472 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
2473 some earlier ones do not.
2474
2475 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
2476
2477 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
2478 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
2479 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
2480 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
2481 address literals are enabled, of course).
2482
2483 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
2484
248510. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
2486 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
2487 by a command such as
2488
2489 exim -f "" ...
2490
2491 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
2492
249311. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
2494
249512. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
2496 remained set. It is now erased.
2497
249813. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
2499 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
2500
250114. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
2502 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
2503 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
2504 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
2505 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
2506 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
2507 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
2508 appropriate error code.
2509
251015. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
2511 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
2512 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
2513 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
2514 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
2515 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
2516
251716. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
2518 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
2519 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
2520
252117. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
2522 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
2523 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
2524 terminate the header.
2525
252618. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
2527 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
2528 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
2529
253019. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
2531 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
2532 (4.30/29). In particular:
2533
2534 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
2535 imposed.
2536
2537 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
2538 to write a maildirsize file.
2539
2540 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
2541 the transport, the new value overrides.
2542
2543 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
2544 count.
2545
254620. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
2547 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
2548 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
2549 space or a tab.
2550
255121. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
2552 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
2553 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
2554 the fallback hosts.
2555
255622. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
2557 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
2558 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
2559
256023. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
2561 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
2562 using a union.
2563
256424. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
2565 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
2566 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
2567
256825. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
2569
257026. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
2571
257227. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
2573
257428. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
2575 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
2576 become corrupted.
2577
257829. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
2579 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
2580 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
2581 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
2582 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
2583 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
2584 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
2585 too great.
2586
258730. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
2588 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
2589 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
2590 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
2591 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
2592 incorrectly.
2593
259431. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
2595 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
2596 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
2597 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
2598 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
2599 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
2600 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
2601 cached value only when the same options are set.
2602
260332. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
2604
260533. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
2606 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
2607 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
2608 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
2609 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
2610
261134: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
2612 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
2613 it is clearly obsolete.
2614
261535. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
2616 transport.
2617
261836. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
2619 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
2620 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
2621 times.
2622
262337. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
2624 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
2625 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
2626 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
2627 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
2628
262938. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
2630 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
2631 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
2632 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
2633
263439. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
2635
2636 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
2637
2638 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
2639 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
2640 2^31.
2641
264240. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
2643 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
2644 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
2645 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
2646 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
2647 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
2648 $localpart_data.
2649
265041. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
2651 with the -f command-line option.
2652
265342. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
2654 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
2655 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
2656 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
2657 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
2658 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
2659
266043. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
2661 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
2662 line.
2663
266444. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
2665 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
2666 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
2667 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
2668 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
2669 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
2670 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
2671 buffer is too small.
2672
267345. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
2674 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
2675
267646. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
2677 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
2678 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
2679 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
2680 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
2681 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
2682 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
2683 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
2684 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
2685
268647. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
2687 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
2688 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
2689
269048. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
2691 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
2692 ACL").
2693
269449. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
2695 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
2696 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
2697 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
2698 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
2699
270050. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
2701 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
2702 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
2703 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
2704 is set.
2705
270651. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
2707
270852. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
2709
271053. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
2711 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
2712
271354. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
2714 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
2715 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
2716
271755. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
2718 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
2719 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
2720 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
2721 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
2722
272356. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
2724 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
2725 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
2726 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
2727 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
2728 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
2729 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
2730
273157. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
2732 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
2733 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
2734 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
2735 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
2736 the test of how many are available.
2737
273858. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
2739 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
2740 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
2741 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
2742 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
2743 new message is started.
2744
274559. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
2746 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
2747
274860. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
2749 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
2750
275161. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
2752 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
2753 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
2754 is no long logged.
2755
275662. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
2757 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
2758 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
2759 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
2760 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
2761 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
2762 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
2763
276463. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
2765 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
2766 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
2767 interpreted as octal.
2768
276964. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
2770 setting.
2771
277265. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
2773 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
2774 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
2775 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
2776 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
2777 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
2778
277966. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
2780 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
2781 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
2782 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
2783
2784 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
2785 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
2786 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
2787 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
2788
2789 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
2790 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
2791 is a bug fix.
2792
2793 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
2794 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
2795
279667. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2797
279868. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
2799 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
2800 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
2801 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
2802
280369. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
2804 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
2805 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
2806 supplied", which is not helpful.
2807
280870. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
2809 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
2810 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
2811
281271. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
2813 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
2814 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
2815 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
2816 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
2817 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
2818 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
2819 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
2820
282172. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
2822 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
2823 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
2824 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
2825 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
2826
282773. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
2828 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
2829 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
2830 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
2831 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
2832 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
2833
283474. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
2835 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
2836 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
2837
283875. Added write_rejectlog option.
2839
284076. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
2841 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
2842 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
2843 variables.
2844
284577. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
2846
284778. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
2848 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
2849 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
2850 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
2851 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
2852 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
2853 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
2854 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
2855
285679. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
2857 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
2858 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
2859 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
2860 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
2861
286280. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
2863 Haardt.
2864
286581. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
2866 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
2867 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
2868 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
2869 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
2870 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
2871 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
2872 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
2873 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
2874
2875
2876Exim version 4.30
2877-----------------
2878
2879 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
2880 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
2881 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
2882
2883 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
2884 fixed.
2885
2886 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
2887 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
2888 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
2889
2890 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
2891 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
2892 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
2893 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
2894 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
2895 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
2896
2897 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
2898 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
2899 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
2900 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
2901 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
2902 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
2903 the Exim test suite.
2904
2905 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
2906 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
2907 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
2908 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
2909
2910 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
2911 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
2912 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
2913 specify it in this variable.
2914
2915 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
2916 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
2917 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
2918 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
2919
2920 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
2921 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
2922 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
2923 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
2924
2925 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
2926 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
2927 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
2928 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
2929 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
2930
2931 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
2932
293310. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
2934 they are logged.
2935
293611. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
2937 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
2938 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
2939 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
2940 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
2941
294212. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
2943 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
2944
294513. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
2946 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
2947 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
2948 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
2949 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
2950
295114. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
2952 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
2953
295415. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
2955 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
2956 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
2957
295816. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
2959 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
2960
296117. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
2962 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
2963
296418. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
2965 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
2966 to get rid of the compiler warning.
2967
296819. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
2969 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
2970
297120. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
2972 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
2973 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
2974 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
2975
297621. Added the -t option to exigrep.
2977
297822. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
2979 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
2980 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
2981 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
2982
298323. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
2984
298524. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
2986 line; previously there was no indication of these.
2987
298825. Added .include_if_exists.
2989
299026. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
2991 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
2992 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
2993 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
2994 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
2995 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
2996
299727. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
2998
299928. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
3000 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
3001 this.
3002
300329. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
3004
300530. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
3006 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
3007
3008 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
3009 550 Sender verify failed
3010
3011 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
3012 the final line of the response.
3013
301431. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
3015 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
3016 all other user lookups.
3017
301832. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
3019 delivery time.
3020
302133. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
3022 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
3023 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
3024 result into an int without checking.
3025
302634. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
3027 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
3028 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
3029
303035. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
3031 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
3032 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
3033 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
3034
303536. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
3036 correctly.
3037
303837. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
3039 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
3040
304138. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
3042 to the empty sender.
3043
304439. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
3045 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
3046 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
3047 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
3048 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
3049 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
3050 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
3051 panic log.
3052
305340. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
3054 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
3055 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
3056 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
3057 used.
3058
305941. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
3060 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
3061
306242. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
3063 timestamps.
3064
306543. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
3066 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
3067
306844. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
3069
307045. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
3071 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
3072 logs.
3073
307446. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
3075 as soon as it is encountered.
3076
307747. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
3078
307948. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
3080 rewritten to "<>".
3081
308249. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
3083 recognizes a tab character.
3084
308550. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
3086 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
3087 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
3088 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
3089
309051. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
3091
309252. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
3093 crash.
3094
309553. Installed eximstats 1.29.
3096
309754. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
3098
309955. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
3100 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
3101 2822.
3102
310356. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
3104 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
3105 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
3106 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
3107 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
3108
310957. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
3110 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
3111
311258. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
3113 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
3114 list (.included file names were always shown).
3115
311659. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
3117 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
3118 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
3119 root at that time.
3120
312160. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
3122 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
3123
312461. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
3125
312662. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
3127
312863. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
3129
313064. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
3131 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
3132 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
3133 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
3134 failures to open the logs.
3135
313665. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
3137 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
3138 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
3139 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
3140 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
3141 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
3142 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
3143
3144
3145Exim version 4.24
3146-----------------
3147
3148 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
3149 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
3150 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
3151 change 4.23/1.
3152
3153 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
3154 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
3155 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
3156
3157 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
3158 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
3159 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
3160
3161 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
3162 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
3163 causing some misleading effects.
3164
3165 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
3166 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
3167 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
3168
3169 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
3170 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
3171 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
3172 queue-runner function directly.
3173
3174
3175Exim version 4.23
3176-----------------
3177
3178 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
3179 HEADERS_CHARSET.
3180
3181 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
3182 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
3183 was always written to the default place.
3184
3185 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
3186 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
3187 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
3188
3189 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
3190
3191 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
3192
3193 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
3194 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
3195 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
3196
3197 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
3198 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
3199 must start.
3200
3201 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
3202 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
3203 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
3204
3205 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
3206 command line option is disabled.
3207
3208 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
3209 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
3210
3211 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
3212
3213 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
3214
3215 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
3216 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
3217
321810. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
3219
322011. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
3221 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
3222 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
3223 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
3224 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
3225 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
3226
322712. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
3228 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
3229 timeout.
3230
323113. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
3232 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
3233
323414. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
3235 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
3236
323715. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
3238 received was valid base64.
3239
324016. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
3241 name of the variable that was being set.
3242
324317. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
3244
324518. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
3246 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
3247 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
3248 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
3249 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
3250 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
3251
325219. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
3253
325420. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
3255 nor realm was specified.
3256
325721. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
3258 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
3259 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
3260 errors are given to SMTP connections.
3261
326222. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
3263 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
3264 failing to send a response to QUIT.
3265
326623. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
3267 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
3268 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
3269
327024. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
3271 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
3272 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
3273 some systems use these upper case variants.
3274
327525. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
3276 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
3277 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
3278 socket" when it tried to send the third.
3279
328026. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
3281
328227. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
3283 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
3284
328528. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
3286 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
3287 expansion variable.
3288
328929. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
3290
329130. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
3292 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
3293 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
3294 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
3295
329631. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
3297 using it.
3298
329932. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
3300 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
3301 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
3302
330333. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
3304 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
3305
330634. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
3307 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
3308 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
3309 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
3310
331135. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
3312 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
3313 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
3314
331536. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
3316
331737. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
3318 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
3319 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
3320 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
3321 aborted.
3322
332338. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
3324 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
3325 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
3326
332739. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
3328
332940. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
3330 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
3331
333241. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
3333 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
3334
333542. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
3336 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
3337 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
3338 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
3339 when emails are that large.
3340
3341
3342
3343Exim version 4.22
3344-----------------
3345
3346 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
3347 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
3348
3349 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
3350 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
3351 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
3352
3353 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
3354 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
3355 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
3356
3357 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
3358 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
3359 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
3360 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
3361 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
3362
3363 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
3364 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
3365 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
3366 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
3367 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
3368 ever.
3369
3370 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
3371 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
3372 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
3373 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
3374 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
3375 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
3376 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
3377 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
3378 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
3379 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
3380 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
3381 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
3382 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
3383 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
3384
3385 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
3386 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
3387 parameterised it.
3388
3389 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
3390 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
3391 error should be diagnosed.
3392
3393 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
3394 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
3395 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
3396 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
3397 appeared instead of "NULL".
3398
339910. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
3400 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
3401 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
3402 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
3403 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
3404 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
3405 proceeds).
3406
3407 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
3408 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
3409 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
3410
3411
3412Exim version 4.21
3413-----------------
3414
3415 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
3416 or receiver verification errors.
3417
3418 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
3419 name.
3420
3421 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
3422 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
3423 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
3424 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
3425
3426 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
3427 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
3428 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
3429 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
3430 shouldn't happen again.
3431
3432 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
3433 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
3434 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
3435
3436 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
3437 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
3438
3439 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
3440
3441 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
3442 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
3443
3444 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
3445 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
3446 RFC.
3447
344810. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
3449 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
3450 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
3451
345211. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
3453 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
3454 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
3455 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
3456
345712. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
3458 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
3459 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
3460 to define what should happen).
3461
346213. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
3463 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
3464 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
3465
346614. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
3467
346815. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
3469
347016. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
3471 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
3472
347317. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
3474 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
3475 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
3476 structure in all cases.
3477
3478 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
3479 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
3480 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
3481 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
3482
348318. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
3484 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
3485 domain name.
3486
348719. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
3488 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
3489
349020. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
3491 MD5 (which is deprecated).
3492
349321. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
3494 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
3495 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
3496
349722. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
3498 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
3499 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
3500
350123. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
3502 the book and for uniformity.
3503
350424. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
3505
350625. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
3507 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
3508 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
3509 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
3510 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
3511 non-existent command as the problem.
3512
351326. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
3514 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
3515 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
3516
351727. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
3518
351928. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
3520 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
3521 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
3522
352329. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
3524 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
3525 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
3526 timestamps using strftime().
3527
352830. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
3529 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
3530
353132. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
3532 transport-time rewrites.
3533
353433. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
3535 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
3536 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
3537 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
3538
353934. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
3540 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
3541
354235. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
3543 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
3544 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
3545 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
3546 comma and a space.
3547
354836. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
3549 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
3550 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
3551 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
3552 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
3553 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
3554 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
3555
355637. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
3557 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
3558 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
3559 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
3560 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
3561
356238. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
3563 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
3564 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
3565 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
3566 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
3567 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
3568 remaining text gets split now.
3569
357039. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
3571 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
3572 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
3573 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
3574
357540. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
3576 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
3577 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
3578 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
3579 $return_path.
3580
358141. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
3582 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
3583 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
3584 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
3585 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
3586 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
3587 passed through if needed.
3588
358942. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
3590 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
3591 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
3592 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
3593 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
3594 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
3595
359643. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
3597 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
3598 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
3599 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
3600 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
3601
360244. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
3603 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
3604 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
3605 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
3606 incorrect size information for certain domains.
3607
360845. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
3609 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
3610 noticed.
3611
361246. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
3613 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
3614 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
3615 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
3616 mayhem of various kinds.
3617
361847. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
3619 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
3620 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
3621 the right test for positive values.
3622
362348. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
3624 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
3625 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
3626 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
3627 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
3628 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
3629 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
3630 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
3631 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
3632 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
3633 envelope.
3634
363549. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
3636 module.
3637
363850. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
3639 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
3640 forbidding it.
3641
364251. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
3643 the existing equality matching.
3644
364552. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
3646 dealing with inode numbers.
3647
364853. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
3649 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
3650 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
3651
365254. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
3653 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
3654 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
3655 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
3656 local_scan().
3657
365855. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
3659 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
3660 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
3661 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
3662 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
3663 relay addresses has also been removed.
3664
366556. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
3666
366757. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
3668 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
3669 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
3670
367158. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
3672 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
3673 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
3674 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
3675 processing applies to CR:
3676
3677 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
3678 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
3679
3680 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
3681 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
3682 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
3683 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
3684
368559. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
3686 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
3687 This is a VOB (very old bug).
3688
368960. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
3690 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
3691 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
3692 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
3693 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
3694 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
3695 arisen.
3696
369761. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
3698 program routers.
3699
370062. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
3701 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
3702 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
3703 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
3704 adds:
3705
3706 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3707
3708 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
3709
3710 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
3711
371263. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
3713 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
3714 not considered personal.
3715
371664. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
3717
371865. Added queue_only_override (default true).
3719
372066. Added the syslog_duplication option.
3721
372267. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
3723 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
3724 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
3725 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
3726 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
3727 header lines, and spool format errors.
3728
372968. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
3730 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
3731 for more flexibility.
3732
373369. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
3734 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
3735 consulting and updating the callout cache.
3736
373770. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
3738 Sabourenkov.
3739
374071. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
3741 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
3742 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
3743 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
3744 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
3745 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
3746 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
3747 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
3748 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
3749
375072. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
3751 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
3752 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
3753 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
3754 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
3755 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
3756 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
3757
375873. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
3759 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
3760 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
3761
376274. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
3763 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
3764 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
3765 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
3766 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
3767 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
3768 instead of killing the process with assert().
3769
377075. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
3771 than Unicode encoding.
3772
377376. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
3774 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
3775 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
3776 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
3777
377877. Added process_log_path.
3779
378078. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
3781 check_log_inodes was ignored.
3782
378379. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
3784 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
3785
378680. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
3787 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
3788 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
3789
379081. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
3791 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
3792 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
3793 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
3794 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
3795 were applied:
3796
3797 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
3798 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
3799 as invalid.
3800
380182. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
3802 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
3803 they will be used during message reception.
3804
3805
3806Exim version 4.20
3807-----------------
3808
3809The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
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