Note MAIL commands in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail logline. Bug 1346
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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5Exim version 4.86
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7JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
8 expanded.
9
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10JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
11
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12JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
13 it.
14
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15JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
16 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostname
17 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
18 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
19
cb1d7830 20JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 21 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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22 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
23
610ff438 24JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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25 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
26 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
27 TLS connections
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29JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
30 sites use this now.
31
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32JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
33 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
34 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
35 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
36 have a dsn_lasthop option.
37
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38JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
39 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 40 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
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42JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
43
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44JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
45 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
46
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47JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
48 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
49
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50JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
51 /defer_ok option.
52
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53JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
54 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
55
fd4d8871 56JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 57 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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58 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
59
60JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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61 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
62 specify a port-range.
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64JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
65 timeout value per server.
66
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67JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
68 now have the list separator specified.
69
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70JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
71 option values.
72
82c0c8ea 73JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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74 under OpenSSL.
75
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76JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
77
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78JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
79 rather than the verbs used.
80
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81JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
82 from 255 to 1024 chars.
83
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84JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
85
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86HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
87 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 88
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89JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
90 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
91
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92HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
93 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
94
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95JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
96
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97JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
98
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99JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
100 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
101 modern usage is to not canoicalize the domain to a CNAME target
102 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
103
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104JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
105
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106JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
107 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
108
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109JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
110 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
111
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112JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
113
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114JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
115
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119TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
120 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
121 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
122 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
123 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
124 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
125 the script parsing/test process like normal.
126
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127TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
128 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
129 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
130 function when detected.
131
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132JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
133 cause callback expansion.
134
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135TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
136 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
137 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
138 instead of bool when processing it.
139
0f06b4f2 140JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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141 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
142
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143JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
144
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145JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
146
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147TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
148
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149TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
150 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 151
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152JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
153 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
154 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
155 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
156 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
157 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
158
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159JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
160 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
161 exceeded it.
162
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163JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
164 version 3.3.6 or later.
165
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166JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
167 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
168 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 169 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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170 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
171 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
172 option is defined.
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174TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
175 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
176
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177JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
178 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
179 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
180 matches.
181
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182JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
183 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
184 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
185
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186JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
187 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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188
189JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
190 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
191 syntax errors.
192
3394b36a 193JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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194
195JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
196 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
197
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198TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
199 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
200 tarball.
201
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202JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
203
204JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
205 Bug 1561.
206
207JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
208 output list separator was used.
209
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211Exim version 4.84
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213TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
214 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
215 return.
1f0ebb98 216
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217JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
218 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
219
220JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
221
222TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 223 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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228
229TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
230
231 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
232 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
233 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
234 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
235 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
236 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
237
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238TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
239 utilities have not been installed.
240
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241JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
242 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
243
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244TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
245 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
246
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247TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
248 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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249 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
250 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 251
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252JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
253
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254TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
255 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
256
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257PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
258 not dns_use_dnssec.
259
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260JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
261
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262TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
263 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
264 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
265
8ddef691 266TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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267 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
268 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
269 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
270 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 271 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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273JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
274
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275JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
276 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
277
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278JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
279 failed delivery.
280
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281JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
282
511a6c14 283JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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284
285JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
286 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 287
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288JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
289 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
290
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291TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
292
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293JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
294
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295JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
296 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
297
298 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
299 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
300 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
301
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302TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
303 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
304 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
305 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 306
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307JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
308
8c51eead 309JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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310 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
311 lookup).
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313TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
314 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
315 Schlichting.
35aba663 316
fd3b6a4a 317JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 318 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 319
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320TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
321 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
322
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323JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
324
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325TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
326 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
327 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
328
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329JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
330 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
331
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332JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
333 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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334 hosts_request_ocsp.
335
ed3bba5f 336JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 337 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 338 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 339
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340JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
341
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342TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
343 Christian Aistleitner.
344
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345JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
346
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347TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
348 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
349
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350JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
351 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
352
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353JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
354 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
355
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356TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
357 support and error reporting did not work properly.
358
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359TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
360 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
361
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362TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
363 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
364 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
365
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366JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
367
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368PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
369 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
370 Jasper Wallace.
371
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372JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
373
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374TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
375 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
376 CVE-2014-2972
377
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381
382PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
383
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384PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
385 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
386
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387PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
388 by GnuTLS.
389
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390PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
391 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
392 routines.
393
13363eba 394PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 395
66645890 396PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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397 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
398 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
399 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
400 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 401
a3fb9793 402PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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403 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
404 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
405 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 406 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 407 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 408
d27f98fe 409TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 410
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411TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
412
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413TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
414 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
415
ae0e32ee 416TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 417 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 418 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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420TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 421
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422TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
423
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424TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
425 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
426
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427JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
428
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429JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
430
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431PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
432
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433NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
434 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 435
585121e2 436JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 437
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438PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
439 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
440 function.
a5f239e4 441
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442PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
443 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
444
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445JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
446 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
447 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 448
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449JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
450
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451JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
452
ea722490 453JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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454 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
455
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456JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
457 Bugzilla 884.
458
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459JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
460 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
461
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462JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
463 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
464
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465PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
466 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 467 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 468
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469JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
470 authenticators.
471
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472JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
473 for control.
474
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475PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
476
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477PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
478 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
479 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
480 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
481
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482TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
483
484 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
485 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
486 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
487 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
488 the retry rules.
489
490 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
491 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
492 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
493
494 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
495 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
496 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
497 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
498
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499 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
500 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
501 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
502 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
503 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
504 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
505 delivery, as in LMTP.
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506
507 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
508 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
509
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510TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
511
512 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
513
514 Resent-From: f
515
516 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
517 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
518 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
519 username as equal to the username.
520
521 This change corrects that bug.
522
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523GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
524 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
525 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
526
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527TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
528
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529PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
530 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
531 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
532 NULL dereference and crash.
533
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534JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
535
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536PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
537 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
538 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
539
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540SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
541
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542JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
543 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
544 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
545 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
546 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
547 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
548 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
549 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
550 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
551 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
552 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
553
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554PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
555 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
556
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557PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
558 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
559 Bugzilla 880.
560
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561PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
562 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
563 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
564 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
565 an empty string is now equivalent.
566
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567PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
568 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
569 not performing validation itself.
570
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571PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
572 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
573
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574JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
575 Bugzilla 321, 823.
576
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577TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
578
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579PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
580 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
581 other false fix of the same issue.
582 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
583 Bugzilla 1363.
584
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585PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
586 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
587
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588PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
589 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
590 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
591
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592PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
593 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
594 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
595
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596TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
597
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598JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
599
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600TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
601 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
602
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603TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
604 Alexander Miroch.
605
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606TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
607 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
608 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
609 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
610 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 611
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612TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
613 the src/util/ subdirectory.
614
581d7bee 615TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 616 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
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617 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
618
619TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
620 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
621 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
622 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
623
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624TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
625
9fc5a352
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626TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
627 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
628 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 629
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630TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
631
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632TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
633 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
634 interaction.
635
636TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
637 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
638
2519e60d
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639TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
640 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
641
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643Exim version 4.80.1
644-------------------
645
646PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
647 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 648 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
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652-----------------
653
654PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
655 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
656 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
657
23c7e742
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658NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
659
b322aac8
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660NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
661 improved.
662
4a891427
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663NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
664
c1e794ba 665PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 666
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667PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
668
669PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
670 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
671
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672PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
673 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
674
7e6a8985
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675PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
676 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
677
f1e05cc7 678PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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679 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
680 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 681
4c287009
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682PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
683
b98bb9ac
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684PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
685 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
686
4a6a987a
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687PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
688
c45dd180 689PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 690
7db8d074
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691PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
692 non-compliant senders.
693 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
694
eae0036b 695NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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696 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
697 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
698
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699PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
700 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
701 in spool file corruption.
702
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703PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
704 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
705 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
706 "Got SSL error 2".
707
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708TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
709 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
710 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
711
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712JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
713 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
714
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715JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
716
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717PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
718 diagnostics.
719 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
720
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721PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
722 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
723 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
724
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725PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
726 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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727 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
728 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
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730PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
731 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
732
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733PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
734 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
735 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
736 resolver implementation change.
737
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738PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
739 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
740
9cbad13b
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741PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
742
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743PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
744
6a6084f8
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745PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
746 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
747
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748PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
749 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
750
9e45c72b 751JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
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752 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
753
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754PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
755 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
756 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
757 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 758 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 759
53947857 760PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 761
eae0036b 762PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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763 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
764 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 765
9e45c72b 766JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 767
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768PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
769 read-only, out of scope).
770 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
771
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772PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
773 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
774 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
775 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
776
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777PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
778
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779PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
780 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
781 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
782 real issues in debug logging.
783
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784PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
785 assignment on my part. Fixed.
786
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787PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
788 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
789 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
790
791PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
792 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
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793 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
794 problems.
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796PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
797 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
798
57eb9e91 799PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
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800 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
801 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
802 needs to override this, it can.
803
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804PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
805 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
806 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
807
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808PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
809 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
810 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
811 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
812
3ecab157 813PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 814
0599f9cf 815
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816Exim version 4.77
817-----------------
818
819PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
820 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
821
f1a29782
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822TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
823
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824TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
825 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 826
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827TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
828 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
829
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830TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
831 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
832 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
833
834 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
835 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
836 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
837 not safe for signals.
838
839 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
840 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
841 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
842 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
843 exiwhat.
844
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845TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
846
847 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
848 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
849 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
850 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
851 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
852
853 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
854 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
855 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
856 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
857 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
858 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
859
860 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
861 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
862 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
863 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
864
865 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
866 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
867 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
868 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
869
870 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
871 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
872 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
873 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
874 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
875 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
876 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
877 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
878 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
879
880 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
881 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
882 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
883 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
884
885 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
886 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
887 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
888 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
889 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
890 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
891 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
892 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
893 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
894 details in the main documentation.
895
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896TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
897
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898TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
899
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900TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
901 repository when doing development or release builds.
902
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903PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
904 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 905
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906PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
907 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
908 Bugzilla 97.
909
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910PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
911
9e949f00 912PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
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913 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
914
915PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
916 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 917
555ae6af 918PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
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919 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
920
921PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
922 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 923
6f7fe114
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924PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
925 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
926
c566dd90
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927PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
928 Bugzilla 1156.
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929 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
930 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 931
d6cc7c78 932PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
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933 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
934 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
935
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936PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
937
3399bb60 938PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
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939
940PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
941 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
942
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944Exim version 4.76
945-----------------
946
947PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
948
754a0503
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949PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
950 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
951
c0c7b2da
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952PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
953
e97d1f08
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954PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
955
084c1d8c
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956PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
957 Bugzilla 1098.
958
4e7ee012
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959PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
960 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 961
c8d52a00
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962TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
963 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
964
54e7ce4a
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965PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
966 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
967
5ee6f336
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968PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
969 Bugzilla 1104.
970
c8d52a00 971TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
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972 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
973
974TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
975 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
976 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
977 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
978
979PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
980 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
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aa097c4c
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983Exim version 4.75
984-----------------
985
4c9ef03a 986NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
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987 Bugzilla 1073
988
7f3d9eff
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989TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
990 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
991 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
992
159f52d2
TF
993TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
994 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
995
0cc9542a
PP
996PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
997 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
998 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
999
f7274286
PP
1000PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1001 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1002
7b797365
PP
1003PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1004 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1005
caacae52
NM
1006NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1007 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1008
09dcaba9
NM
1009NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1010 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1011
bc19a55b
PP
1012PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1013 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1014
bd4c9759
NM
1015NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1016 Fixes bug 943.
1017
b72aab72
PP
1018PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1019 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1020
2fe76745
PP
1021PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1022 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1023
76aa570c
PP
1024PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1025 SQL string expansion failure details.
1026 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1027
f1e5fef5
PP
1028PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1029 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1030
4d805ee9
PP
1031PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1032 extern declarations in function scope.
1033 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1034
cd59ab18
PP
1035PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1036 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1037 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1038 a kernel bug).
1039
332f5cf3
PP
1040PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1041 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1042
29cfeb94
PP
1043PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1044 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1045
660242ad
PP
1046PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1047 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1048
bc4bc4c5
PP
1049PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1050 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1051
2e64baa9
NM
1052NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1053 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1054 Dennis Davis.
1055
bddd7526
PP
1056PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
1057
6bac1a9a
PP
1058PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1059
552193f0
NM
1060NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1061 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1062
1b587e48
TF
1063TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1064 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1065
aa097c4c 1066
8c07b69f
TF
1067Exim version 4.74
1068-----------------
1069
1070TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1071 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1072
c0ea85ab
TF
1073TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1074 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1075
0761d44e
TF
1076TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1077
0a349494
PP
1078DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1079 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1080 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1081
1082PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1083 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1084 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1085
fea24b2e
PP
1086PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1087 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1088 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1089 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1090
6545de78
PP
1091PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1092 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1093 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1094 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1095
1670ef10
PP
1096PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1097 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1098 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1099 arbitrary files.
1100
c0886197
PP
1101PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1102 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1103
b7487bce
PP
1104PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1105 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1106 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1107 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1108 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1109
8c07b69f 1110
97fd1e48 1111Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1112-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1113
1114PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1115 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1116 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1117
6901c596
PP
1118PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1119 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1120
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1121JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1122
77bb000f
PP
1123PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1124
a29e5231
PP
1125PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1126
ec5a0394 1127PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1128
55c75993
PP
1129PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1130
453a6645 1131PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1132 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1133 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1134 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1135
8544e77a
PP
1136PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1137 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1138 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1139 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1140 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1141
83e029d5
PP
1142PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1143
ed7f7860
PP
1144PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1145
7d9f747b
PP
1146PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1147
4b2241d2
PP
1148PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1149
10385c15
PP
1150PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1151
dbc4b90d
PP
1152PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1153
532be449
PP
1154PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1155
6a8de854 1156PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1157 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1158 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1159
5dc43717
JJ
1160JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1161
1162JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1163 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1164
3346ab01
PP
1165PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1166 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1167
491fab4c
PP
1168PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1169 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1170 Notification from John Horne.
1171
13eb9497
PP
1172PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1173 compatible.
1174
1175PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1176 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1177 it normally works.
1178
7f36d675
DW
1179DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1180 access.
1181
c1d94452
DW
1182DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1183 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1184 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1185
e2f5dc15
DW
1186DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1187 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1188 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1189 configuration file.
1190
cd25e41d
DW
1191DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1192 option (effectively making it always true).
1193
261dc43e
DW
1194DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1195 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1196
fa32850b
DW
1197DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1198 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1199
79d4bc3d
PP
1200PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1201 run-time user, instead of root.
1202
43236f35 1203PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1204 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1205
fb08281f
DW
1206DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1207 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1208 arguments.
3346ab01 1209
74935b98
DW
1210DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1211 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1212 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1213
90b6341f
DW
1214DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1215
57730b52
ML
1216NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1217
66581d1e 1218
465e92cf
JJ
1219Exim version 4.72
1220-----------------
1221
453a6645
PP
1222JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1223 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1224 typos
465e92cf 1225
453a6645
PP
1226JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1227 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1228 (Finput)
edae0343 1229
9bd3e22c
NM
1230NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1231 Patch from Alain Williams
1232
bb576ff7
NM
1233NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1234
5a1a5845
NM
1235NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1236 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1237
981a9fad
NM
1238NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1239 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1240
7fc497ee
NM
1241NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1242
1a41defa
JJ
1243JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1244
a466095c 1245NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1246 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1247
94a6bd0b
NM
1248TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1249
1250TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1251
1252MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1253 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1254 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1255
c1b141a8
NM
1256NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1257 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1258
b26eacf1 1259NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1260 Patch by Simon Arlott
1261
179c5980 1262PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1263 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1264
9bd3e22c 1265
7c6d71af
NM
1266Exim version 4.71
1267-----------------
1268
7d9f747b 1269TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1270
f013fb92
NM
1271NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1272
0eb8eedd
NM
1273NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1274
663ee6d9
NM
1275NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1276
177ebd9b
NM
1277NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1278
7c6d71af 1279
210f147e
NM
1280Exim version 4.70
1281-----------------
1282
cdd3bb85 1283TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1284 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1285
1286TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1287 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1288 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1289
1290TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1291 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1292 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1293
1294TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1295 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1296
210f147e
NM
1297NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1298 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1299 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1300 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1301
deafd5b3
NM
1302NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1303 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1304 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1305
089793a4
TF
1306TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1307
5f16ca82
TF
1308TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1309
dae9d94e 1310NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1311 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1312
7d9f747b 1313NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1314
06864c44
TF
1315TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1316 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1317 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1318 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1319
65a7d8c3 1320NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1321 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1322
23510047 1323TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1324
7d9f747b 1325NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1326
7d8eec3a 1327NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1328 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1329
89dec7b6
TF
1330TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1331 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1332
a99de90c
TF
1333TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1334 that they are available at delivery time.
1335
e2803e40
TF
1336TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1337
7199e1ee
TF
1338TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1339 incoming_port log selectors.
1340
e276e04b
TF
1341TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1342 setting expands to an empty string.
1343
ce552449 1344NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1345 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1346
e765a0f1 1347NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1348 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1349
4f054c63 1350NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1351 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1352
7d9f747b
PP
1353NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1354 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1355
7d9f747b
PP
1356NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1357 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1358
b52bc06e 1359NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1360 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1361
447de4b0
NM
1362NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1363
4c69d561 1364NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1365 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1366
d5c39246 1367NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1368 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1369
0b23848a
TK
1370TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1371
8f3414a1 1372NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1373 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1374
fb6f955d
NM
1375NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1376
1377NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1378
7d9f747b
PP
1379NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1380 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1381
7d9f747b
PP
1382NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1383 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1384
7d9f747b
PP
1385NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1386 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1387
7d9f747b
PP
1388NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1389 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1390
7d9f747b
PP
1391NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1392 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1393
7d9f747b
PP
1394NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1395 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1396
7d9f747b
PP
1397NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1398 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1399
7d9f747b 1400NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1401 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1402
7d9f747b 1403NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1404
7d9f747b
PP
1405NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1406 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1407
7d9f747b 1408NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1409
7d9f747b 1410NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1411
7d9f747b 1412NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1413
7d9f747b 1414NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1415
17792b53 1416NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1417 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1418
7d9f747b
PP
1419NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1420 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1421
91576cec 1422NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1423 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1424
7d9f747b
PP
1425NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1426 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1427
7d9f747b 1428NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1429
7d9f747b 1430NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1431
7d9f747b 1432NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1433
7d9f747b 1434NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1435
deafd5b3 1436
47db1125
NM
1437Exim version 4.69
1438-----------------
1439
4b3504d0
TK
1440TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1441 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1442 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1443
1444 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1445 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1446 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1447 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1448 build errors in sieve.c.
1449
81ea09ca
NM
1450NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1451 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1452 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1453
f13cddcb
SC
1454SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1455
7d9f747b 1456NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1457
7d9f747b 1458NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1459
7d9f747b 1460NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1461
1462
eb4c0de6
PH
1463Exim version 4.68
1464-----------------
1465
1466PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1467
6a3bceb1
PH
1468PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1469 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1470 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1471 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1472 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1473 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1474 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1475 for iplsearch lookups.
1476
1477 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1478 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1479 previously such lookups could never work.
1480
1481 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1482 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1483 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1484
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TK
1485TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1486 version.
1487
0806a9c5
MH
1488MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1489 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1490 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1491 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1492 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1493 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1494
ae276964
TK
1495TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1496 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1497
0f2cbd1b
MH
1498MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1499 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1500 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1501 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1502 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1503 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1504
2b85bce7
PH
1505PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1506 local_scan API.
1507
93655c46
PH
1508PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1509
6c512171
PH
1510PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1511 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1512 encrypted.
1513
1514PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1515 by clients under certain conditions.
1516
aa6dc513
PH
1517PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1518 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1519
a96603a0
PH
1520PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1521
8f240103
PH
1522PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1523 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1524
1525PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1526
d677b2f2
PH
1527PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1528
d52120f2
PH
1529PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1530
64f2600a
PH
1531PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1532 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1533
8669f003
PH
1534PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1535
a4dc33a8
PH
1536PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1537 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1538
d6a60c0f
PH
1539PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1540
8f128379
PH
1541PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1542
8932dffe
PH
1543PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1544 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1545 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1546 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1547
ddea74fa 1548PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1549 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1550 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1551
ddea74fa 1552PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
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PH
1553 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1554
ddea74fa
PH
1555PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1556
ce9f225c
PH
1557PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1558
19897d52
PH
1559PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1560
bc64a74d
PH
1561PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1562 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1563 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1564
eb4c0de6 1565
b4ed4da0
PH
1566Exim version 4.67
1567-----------------
1568
22ad45c9
MH
1569MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1570 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1571 Jan Srzednicki.
1572
b4ed4da0
PH
1573PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1574 issue a MAIL command.
1575
431b7361
PH
1576PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1577
1578 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1579
1580 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1581 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1582 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1583 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1584 item. This has been fixed.
1585
1586PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1587 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1588
83da1223
PH
1589PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1590 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1591
54fc8428
PH
1592PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1593 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1594 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1595
34c5e8dd
SC
1596SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1597
bbe15da8
PH
1598PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1599 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1600 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1601 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1602 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1603
0e8a9471
MH
1604MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1605 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1606 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1607
f0872424
PH
1608PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1609 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1610 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1611 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1612
b01dd148
PH
1613PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1614
6bf342e1
PH
1615PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1616
273f34d0
PH
1617PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1618 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1619 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1620 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1621 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1622
cf8b11a5
PH
1623PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1624
41c7c167
PH
1625PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1626 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1627 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1628 values).
1629
9c57cbc0
PH
1630PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1631
f3f065bb
PH
1632PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1633
047bdd8c
PH
1634PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1635
0ce9abe6
PH
1636PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1637
0e22dfd1
PH
1638PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1639
4c590bd1
PH
1640PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1641 no_callout_flush is set.
1642
09945f1e
PH
1643PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1644 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1645 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1646 fixed.
1647
c51b8e75
PH
1648PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1649
e28326d8
PH
1650PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1651 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1652 other ACL rejections are.
1653
75b1493f
PH
1654PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1655 with slight modification.
1656
7c5214ec
PH
1657PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1658 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1659
4311097e
PH
1660PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1661 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1662 connection.
1663
29f89cad
PH
1664PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1665 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1666
5e687460
SC
1667SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1668
c3611384
PH
1669PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1670 expansion side effects.
1671
5a11a7b4
PH
1672PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1673 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1674 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1675 be the same.
1676
0e20aff9
MH
1677MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1678 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1679 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1680
ca86f471
PH
1681PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1682 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1683 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1684 were accidentally chopped off.
1685
a14e5636
PH
1686PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1687 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1688 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1689 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1690 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1691 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1692 pipelining has not been advertised.
1693
ec95d1a6
PH
1694PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1695
42855d71
PH
1696PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1697 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1698 This has been fixed.
1699
57c2c631
PH
1700PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1701 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1702 reported on Solaris.
1703
58c01c94
PH
1704PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1705 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1706 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1707 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1708 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1709 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1710 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1711
dee5a20a
PH
1712PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1713 cpus.
1714
d2ee6114
PH
1715PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1716
b2d5182b
PH
1717PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1718
79749a79
PH
1719PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1720 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1721 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1722 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1723 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1724 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1725
c456d9bb
PH
1726PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1727 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1728 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1729 host_all_ignored option.
1730
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PH
1731PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1732 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1733 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1734 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1735 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1736 is what is supposed to happen).
1737
ebeaf996
PH
1738PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1739 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1740 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1741 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1742 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1743 uses the Exim user.
1744
2679d413
PH
1745PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1746 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1747 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1748 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1749 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1750 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1751 users.
1752
84024b72
PH
1753PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1754
8005d38e
SC
1755SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1756 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1757 (Jez Hancock).
1758 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1759 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1760
3298c6c6
SC
1761SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1762
a43a27c5
PH
1763PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1764
58eb016e 1765PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1766 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1767 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1768 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1769 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1770 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1771 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1772 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1773 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1774 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1775 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1776
b43a74ea
PH
1777PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1778 advertised in response to EHLO.
1779
b4ed4da0 1780
5dd1517f
PH
1781Exim version 4.66
1782-----------------
1783
1784PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1785 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1786
1787 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1788 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1789
1790 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1791 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1792 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1793
1794 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1795 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1796 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1797 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1798 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1799
1800
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1801Exim version 4.65
1802-----------------
1803
1804TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1805 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1806 versions. (#438)
1807
d6066548
MH
1808MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1809 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1810 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1811
4362ff0d
PH
1812PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1813 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1814 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1815 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1816 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1817 rather than extend the field.
1818
93cfa765 1819
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1820Exim version 4.64
1821-----------------
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1823TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1824 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1825 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1826 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1827 these files.
1828
1829TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1830 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1831 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1832
1833TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1834 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1835 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1836
1837TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1838 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1839 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1840 in the field name.
1841
2b1c6e3a
PH
1842PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1843 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1844 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1845 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1846 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1847 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1848 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1849 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1850 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1851 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1852 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1853
1f872c80
PH
1854PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1855 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1856
1857PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1858 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1859 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1860 ignores EPIPE as well.
1861
d203e649
PH
1862PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1863 (quoted-printable decoding).
1864
cc2ed8f7 1865PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1866 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1867
ddfcd446
PH
1868PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1869
d45b1de8
PH
1870PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1871
1872PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1873
38a0a95f 1874PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1875 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1876
a2405d83
JJ
1877JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1878 in 4.64-PH/09.
1879
1880JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1881 miscellaneous code fixes
1882
6ea85e9a
PH
1883PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1884 rejections.
1885
26da7e20
PH
1886PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1887 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1888 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1889 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1890 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1891 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1892 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1893 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1894
14aa5a05 1895PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1896 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1897 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1898 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1899 function.
1900 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1901 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1902 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1903 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1904 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1905 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1906 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1907 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1908 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1909
ff75a1f7
PH
1910PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1911 decoding.
1912
e6f6568e
PH
1913PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1914 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1915 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1916 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1917 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1918 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1919 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1920 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1921
d6f6e0dc
PH
1922PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1923 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1924 list.
1925
322050c2
PH
1926PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1927 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1928 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1929 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1930 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1931 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1932 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1933 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1934 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1935 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1936 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1937 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1938 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1939
08955dd3
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1940PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1941 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1942 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1943 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1944 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1945 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1946 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1947
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1948PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1949 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1950 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1951 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1952 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1953 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1954 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1955 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1956 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1957 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1958
602e59e5
PH
1959PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1960 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1961 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1962 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1963 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1964
411ef850
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1965PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1966 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1967 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1968 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1969 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1970 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1971 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1972
7befa435
PH
1973PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1974 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1975 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1976 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1977 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1978 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1979 been verified.
1980
48da4259 1981PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1982 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1983 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1984 and authorization.)
1985
48da4259
PH
1986PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1987 if any retry times were supplied.
1988
d1d5595c
PH
1989PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1990 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1991 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1992
0ef732d9
PH
1993PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1994
328895cc
PH
1995PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1996
fd700877
PH
1997PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1998 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1999 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2000 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2001 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2002 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2003
8dce1a6f
PH
2004PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2005 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2006
17af4a17
PH
2007PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2008 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2009 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2010
2011PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2012 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2013 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2014 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2015 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2016 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2017 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2018 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2019 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2020
2021 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2022 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2023 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2024 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2025 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2026 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2027 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2028 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2029 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2030
2031 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2032 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2033 hammering the server.
2034
c1114884
PH
2035PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2036 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2037
7a0743eb
PH
2038PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2039
0d85fa3f
PH
2040PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2041 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2042 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2043
1bf43b78
PH
2044PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2045 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2046 one case where this was not true.
2047
520de300
PH
2048PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2049 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2050 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2051 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2052 fails.
2053
48c7f9e2
PH
2054PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2055 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2056 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2057 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
2058 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
2059 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2060 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2061 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2062 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2063 smtp transport.
2064
99ea1c86
PH
2065PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2066 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2067 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2068 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2069
a2042e78
PH
2070PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2071 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2072
4fbcfc2e
PH
2073PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2074 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2075 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2076
aa41d2de
PH
2077PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2078
af561417
PH
2079PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2080
3cc66b45
PH
2081PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2082
194cc0e4
PH
2083PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2084 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2085 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2086 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2087
a401ddaa
PH
2088PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2089 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2090
4e88a19f
PH
2091PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2092 be meaningful with "accept".
2093
d7d7b289
SC
2094SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2095 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2096
2097SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2098 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2099 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2100
2101SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2102 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2103 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2104 there is data to show.
2105 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2106
2107SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2108 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2109 as well as the number of messages.
2110
2111SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2112 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2113 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2114
2115SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2116 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2117 have a flag are now skipped.
2118
2119SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2120 Added the -emptyok flag.
2121
2122SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2123 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2124
0ea2a468
JJ
2125JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2126 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2127 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2128
2129JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2130 match 4.64-PH/13
2131
2132JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2133 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2134
2135JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2136
2137JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2138 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2139
8a10f5a4
PH
2140PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2141
30e18802
PH
2142PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2143 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2144 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2145 contravention of the specifications.
2146
55728a4f
PH
2147PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2148 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2149 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2150
d7837193
PH
2151PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2152 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2153 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2154
87054a31
PH
2155PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2156
ea2c01d2
MH
2157MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2158 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2159 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2160 some point in the past.
2161
e4fa6968
PH
2162PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2163 transport during callout processing was broken.
2164
56f5d9bd
PH
2165PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2166 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2167
922e1c28
PH
2168PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2169 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2170
21eb6e72
PH
2171PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2172 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2173
a0540757
PH
2174PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2175
944e9e9c 2176
478be7b0
SC
2177Exim version 4.63
2178-----------------
2179
2180SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2181 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2182
2183SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2184 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2185 there is data to show.
2186 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2187
2188SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2189 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2190
2b965a65
TF
2191TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2192 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2193
45b91596
PH
2194TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2195 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2196
c59f5781
TF
2197TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2198 submissions from trusted users.
2199
90fc3069
TF
2200TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2201 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2202
6083aca0
TF
2203TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2204 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2205 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2206 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2207 there is now a framework to start from.
2208
765b530f
PH
2209PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2210 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2211 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2212
4e167a8c
PH
2213PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2214
4608d683
PH
2215PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2216
b8dc3e4a
PH
2217PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2218
5418e93b
PH
2219PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2220 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2221 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2222
b4a9bda2
PH
2223PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2224 libradius.
2225
45b91596
PH
2226PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2227 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2228 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2229
5547e2c5
PH
2230PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2231 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2232 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2233 its arguments.
2234
dbcef0ea
PH
2235PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2236 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2237 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2238 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2239 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2240
25257489
PH
2241PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2242 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2243
c816d124
PH
2244PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2245
a9ccd69a
PH
2246PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2247 operations in malware.c.
2248
75fa1910
PH
2249PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2250 signatures.
2251
a7d7aa58
PH
2252PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2253 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2254 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2255 all.
2256
42119b09
PH
2257PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2258 statements to "add_header".
2259
41609df5
PH
2260PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2261 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2262
a5bd321b
PH
2263PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2264 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2265 latter.
2266
e85a7ad5 2267PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2268 so that it is now:
2269
e85a7ad5
PH
2270 ${if or { \
2271 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2272 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2273 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2274 }{no}{yes}}
2275
e85a7ad5
PH
2276 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2277 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2278
d8fe1c03
PH
2279PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2280 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2281
16282d2b
PH
2282PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2283 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2284 any possible encoding problems.
2285
35d40a98
PH
2286PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2287 but not after initializing Perl.
2288
034d99ab
PH
2289PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2290 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2291 apparently, which is not desirable.
2292
6ec97b1b
PH
2293PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2294 queries.
2295
e22ca4ac
JJ
2296JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2297 --not options
2298
2299JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2300
33d73e3b
PH
2301PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2302 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2303 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2304 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2305
9ecb03f3
PH
2306PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2307 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2308 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2309
084efe8d
PH
2310PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2311 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2312 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2313 0.12.
2314
366fc9f0
PH
2315PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2316 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2317 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2318 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2319 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2320
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2322Exim version 4.62
2323-----------------
2324
2325TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2326 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2327
1cce3af8
PH
2328PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2329 patch).
2330
afb3eaaf
PH
2331PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2332 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2333 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2334 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2335 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2336 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2337 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2338 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2339 451 error is used.
2340
e173618b
PH
2341PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2342
dd16e114
PH
2343PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2344 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2345 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2346
f7fd3850
PH
2347PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2348 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2349 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2350 odd errors.
2351
d87df92c
PH
2352PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2353 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2354
7e9f683d
PH
2355PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2356 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2357 option (which defaults to 0600).
2358
bfad5236
PH
2359PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2360
01c490df
PH
2361PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2362 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2363 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2364 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2365 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2366 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2367 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2368
d6629cdc
PH
2369PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2370
1cce3af8 2371
214e2000
PH
2372Exim version 4.61
2373-----------------
2374
2375PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2376 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2377 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2378 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2379 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2380 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2381 addresses as local.
2382
f9daeae0
PH
2383PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2384 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2385
7e66e54d
PH
2386PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2387
c8ea1597
PH
2388PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2389 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2390 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2391 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2392 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2393 grumble.
2394
911f6fde
PH
2395PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2396 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2397
47ca6d6c
PH
2398PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2399 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2400 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2401 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2402 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2403
ed0e9820
PH
2404PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2405 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2406 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2407 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2408
eff37e47
PH
2409PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2410 be the same on different OS.
2411
1921d2ea
PH
2412PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2413 testing.
2414
b3f69ca8
JJ
2415JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2416 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2417
2418JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2419 in 4.61-PH/06
2420
424a1c63
PH
2421PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2422 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2423 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2424 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2425 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2426 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2427 bounce message.
2428
7a100415
PH
2429PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2430 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2431 when Exim was called.
2432
19b9dc85
PH
2433PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2434 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2435
309bd837
PH
2436PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2437 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2438 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2439 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2440
59e82a2a
PH
2441PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2442 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2443 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2444 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2445 changes:
2446
2447 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2448 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2449 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2450
2451 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2452 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2453 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2454
9edc04ce
PH
2455PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2456 feature).
2457
1349e1e5
PH
2458PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2459 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2460 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2461 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2462 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2463 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2464 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2465 values from the SRV records were lost.
2466
ea49d0e1
PH
2467PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2468 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2469 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2470
064a94c9
PH
2471PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2472 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2473 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2474
727071f8
PH
2475PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2476 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2477 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2478 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2479 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2480 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2481 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2482 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2483 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2484 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2485
f78eb7c6
PH
2486PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2487 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2488 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2489
21c28500
PH
2490PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2491 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2492
2493PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2494 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2495 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2496 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2497 is given.
2498
1688f43b
PH
2499PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2500 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2501 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2502
2503PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2504 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2505 PH/23 above applies.
2506
9675b384
PH
2507PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2508 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2509 (for which there is an explicit test).
2510
6a3f1455
PH
2511PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2512
dac79d3e
PH
2513PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2514 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2515 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2516 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2517 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2518
5977a0b3
PH
2519PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2520 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2521 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2522 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2523
c91535f3
PH
2524PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2525 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2526 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2527
0d46a8c8
PH
2528PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2529
278c6e6c
PH
2530PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2531
2cbb4081
PH
2532PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2533 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2534 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2535
3eef829e
PH
2536PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2537 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2538 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2539 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2540 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2541
1ab95fa6
PH
2542PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2543 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2544 the message gets confusing).
2545
230205fc
PH
2546PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2547 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2548 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2549 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2550
75e0e026
PH
2551PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2552 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2553 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2554 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2555 same order.
2556
2557PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2558 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2559 the different processes.
2560
145396a6
PH
2561PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2562
3cd34f13
PH
2563PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2564
11121d3d
JJ
2565JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2566 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2567
2568JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2569 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2570
2571JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2572 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2573 messages matching specified criteria.
2574
8def5aaf
PH
2575PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2576
929ba01c
PH
2577PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2578 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2579
2632889e
PH
2580PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2581 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2582 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2583 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2584 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2585 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2586 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2587 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2588 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2589 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2590
944a9c55
PH
2591PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2592 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2593 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2594
4a23603b
PH
2595PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2596
4730f942
PH
2597PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2598 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2599 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2600 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2601 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2602 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2603 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2604 the variable.
2605
30dba1e6
PH
2606PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2607 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2608
382afc6b
PH
2609PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2610
a86229cf
PH
2611PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2612
50c99ba6
PH
2613PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2614
d35e429d
PH
2615PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2616 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2617 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2618 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2619 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2620 size of the count of files.
2621
f90d018c
PH
2622PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2623
75def545
PH
2624PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2625 used in LMTP mode:
2626
2627 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2628 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2629 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2630 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2631
2632 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2633 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2634 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2635
2636PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2637 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2638 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2639 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2640 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2641
c46782ef
PH
2642PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2643 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2644
71fafd95
PH
2645PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2646 will now be deprecated.
2647
2c5db4fd
PH
2648PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2649
9cf6b11a
JJ
2650JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2651 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2652 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2653
2654JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2655 with very large, slow to parse queues
2656
2657JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2658
2659JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2660
898d150f
PH
2661PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2662 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2663 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2664 SMTP output lines.
2665
46218253
PH
2666PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2667 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2668 Sieve code now uses this.
2669
e97957bc
PH
2670PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2671 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2672
81e509d7
PH
2673PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2674 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2675
3d240ff7
PH
2676PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2677
b37c4101
PH
2678PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2679 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2680 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2681 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2682 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2683
79378e0f
PH
2684PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2685 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2686 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2687 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2688
e49c7bb4
PH
2689PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2690
d114ec46
PH
2691PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2692
f3d7df6c
PH
2693PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2694 is preferred over IPv4.
2695
715ab376
PH
2696PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2697 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2698 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2699 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2700 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2701 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2702 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2703
6b31b150
PH
2704PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2705 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2706 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2707
2708PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2709
d515a917
PH
2710PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2711 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2712 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2713 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2714 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2715 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2716 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2717 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2718 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2719 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2720 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2721
9b8fadde
PH
2722PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2723 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2724 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2725
214e2000 2726
5de37277
PH
2727Exim version 4.60
2728-----------------
2729
cc38ddbf
PH
2730PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2731
2732 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2733 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2734
2735 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2736 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2737 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2738
72fdd6ae
PH
2739PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2740
2741 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2742 not a single digit.
2743
2744 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2745 string.
2746
2747 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2748 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2749 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2750 silly things.
2751
2752 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2753 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2754
2755 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2756 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2757
cb741023
PH
2758PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2759 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2760 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2761
f174f16e
PH
2762PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2763 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2764
c25242d7
PH
2765PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2766 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2767
2768 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2769
2770 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2771 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2772 this:
2773
2774 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2775
82c19f95
PH
2776PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2777 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2778 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2779 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2780 identical. For example:
2781
2782 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2783
2784 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2785 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2786 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2787
d7ffbc12
PH
2788PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2789 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2790 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2791 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2792
9f526266
PH
2793PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2794 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2795 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2796 message.
2797
87fcc8b9
PH
2798PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2799
2800 o fixes some comments
2801 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2802 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2803 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2804 and documents the missing references header update
2805
2806 and most important:
2807
2808 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2809 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2810 result)
2811
456682f5
PH
2812PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2813 Electronic Mail") by including:
2814
2815 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2816
2817 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2818 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2819 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2820 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2821 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2822
2823 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2824
2825 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2826
2827 The auto-replied keyword:
2828
2829 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2830 message by an automatic process,
2831
2832 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2833
2834 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2835 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2836
2837 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2838 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2839 other messages.
2840
3e46c1aa
PH
2841PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2842 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2843
49826d12
PH
2844PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2845
eba0c039
PH
2846PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2847 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2848 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2849
a0d6ba8a
PH
2850PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2851 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2852 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2853
f0917727
PH
2854PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2855 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2856 and treats the condition as false.
2857
096fee00
PH
2858PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2859
024bd3c2
PH
2860PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2861 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2862 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2863 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2864 not changing the active code.
2865
2866 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2867 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2868
2869 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2870 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2871
df199fec
PH
2872PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2873 (Bugzilla #53).
2874
d27f1df3
PH
2875PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2876 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2877 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2878 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2879 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2880 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2881 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2882 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2883 the text comparison.
2884
96776534
PH
2885PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2886 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2887 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2888 The same fix has been applied.
2889
5de37277 2890
9a799bc0
PH
2891Exim version 4.54
2892-----------------
2893
2894PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2895 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2896 It now does.
2897
99a4b039
PH
2898PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2899 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2900
2901PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2902
4b233853
PH
2903PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2904 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2905 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2906 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2907 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2908
8857ccfd
PH
2909TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2910 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2911 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2912 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2913 or /domain=).
2914
433a2980
PH
2915PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2916 testing suite.
2917
3e46c1aa 2918
9a799bc0 2919
e3a311ba
TK
2920Exim version 4.53
2921-----------------
2922
2923TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2924 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2925
13b685f9
PH
2926PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2927
395ff96d
PH
2928PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2929
5b68f6e4
PH
2930PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2931 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2932 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2933
1ab52c69
PH
2934PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2935 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2936 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2937
b07e6aa3
PH
2938PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2939 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2940 operating systems.
2941
254e032f
PH
2942PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2943 ${stat: expansion item.
2944
3af76a81
PH
2945PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2946 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2947
2548ba04
PH
2948PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2949 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2950 file for comments.
2951
b6c6011d
PH
2952PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2953
cf39cf57
PH
2954PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2955 setting.
2956
f1513293
PH
2957PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2958 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2959
727549a4
PH
2960TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2961
af46795e
PH
2962PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2963 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2964 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2965 the end of the subprocess.
2966
d7b47fd0
PH
2967PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2968 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2969 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2970 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2971 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2972
ee744174
JJ
2973JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2974
b582ab87
PH
2975TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2976
41a13e0a
PH
2977PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2978 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2979
f625cc5a
PH
2980PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2981
2982PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2983
21f7af35
PH
2984PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2985 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2986 HP-UX compiler.
2987
31480e42
PH
2988PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2989
2d280592
PH
2990PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2991 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2992 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2993
7cd1141b
PH
2994PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2995 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2996
2997PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2998 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2999
750af86e
PH
3000PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3001 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3002
3003 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3004 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3005
3006 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3007 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3008 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3009 contributed by a Radius user.
3010
3011PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3012 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3013
4304270b
TK
3014TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3015 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3016
750af86e
PH
3017PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3018 available.
3019
64ffc24f
PH
3020PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3021 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3022 received.
3023
5dd9625b
PH
3024PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3025 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3026 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3027 header lines when this was not necessary.
3028
5591031b
PH
3029PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3030
ba18e66a
PH
3031PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3032 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3033 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3034 exists".
3035
9cec981f
PH
3036PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3037 -bV or -d is used.
3038
aa2b5c79
PH
3039PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3040 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3041 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3042 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3043
48a53b7f
PH
3044PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3045
1c59d63b
PH
3046PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3047
671012da
TK
3048TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3049
1509d3a8
PH
3050PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3051
3052PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3053 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3054 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3055 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3056 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3057 settings.
3058
3059PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3060
2fe1a124
PH
3061PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3062 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3063 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3064 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3065 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3066 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3067 which is clearly wrong.
3068
8800895a
PH
3069PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3070
ccfdb010
PH
3071PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3072 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3073 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3074 subsequently added.
3075
1130bfb0
PH
3076PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3077 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3078
ebcb507f
PH
3079PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3080
c35e155c
PH
3081PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3082 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3083
95d1f782
PH
3084PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3085 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3086
fd6de02e
PH
3087PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3088 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3089
58de37c5
PH
3090PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3091 recipients, not senders.
3092
261cf466
TF
3093TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3094 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3095
3ee512ff
PH
3096PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3097
e08c430f
PH
3098PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3099
bef5a11f
PH
3100PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3101 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3102 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3103 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3104
7546de58
TF
3105TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3106
e5d5a95f
TF
3107TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3108 clock is set back in time.
3109
2e88a017
TF
3110TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3111 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3112
a5f65aa4
TF
3113TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3114 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3115
e7726cbf
PH
3116PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3117 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3118 (see PH/47 above).
3119
a7fdad5b
TF
3120TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3121 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3122 header rewrites.
3123
6af56900
PH
3124PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3125 type ("H").
3126
0925ede6
PH
3127PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3128
66afa403
TF
3129TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3130 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3131 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3132
0154e85a
TF
3133TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3134 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3135 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3136 helo verification defer as a failure.
3137
16f12c76
PH
3138PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3139 actual error message.
3140
bbe902f0 3141
e5a9dba6
PH
3142Exim version 4.52
3143-----------------
3144
3145TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3146
22c3b60b
PH
3147PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3148 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3149 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3150 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3151
06a9b4b5
PH
3152TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3153
c1ac6996
PH
3154PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3155 can still be requested.
3156
9c7a242c
PH
3157PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3158 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3159 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3160 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3161
87ba3f5f
PH
3162TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3163 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3164 circumstances, but probably never did.
3165
3166PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3167 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3168 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3169 in the header line.
3170
29aba418
TF
3171TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3172
fe0dab11
TF
3173TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3174 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3175
11d337a4
TK
3176TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3177
3178TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3179
415c8f3b
PH
3180PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3181 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3182 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3183 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3184 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3185 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3186
958541e9
PH
3187PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3188 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3189 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3190 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3191 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3192 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3193
c206415f
TK
3194TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3195 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3196
2a4be8f9
PH
3197PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3198 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3199
1cba11c5
SC
3200SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3201 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3202
3203SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3204
3205SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3206
3207SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3208
3209SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3210
3211SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3212
3213SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3214
1005d00e
TK
3215TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3216
3217TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3218 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3219 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3220
3221TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3222 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3223 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3224 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3225
9b4768fa
PH
3226PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3227 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3228 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3229
3230PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3231 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3232 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3233 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3234
0d7eb84a
PH
3235PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3236 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3237 to be made).
3238
3239PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3240 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3241 should work with maildirs and everything.
3242
40727bee
TK
3243TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3244 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3245
554d2369
TF
3246TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3247 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3248
1f922db1
PH
3249PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3250 function for BDB 4.3.
3251
ef213c3b
PH
3252PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3253
8ac170f3
PH
3254PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3255 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3256 involved.
3257
b1c749bb
PH
3258PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3259 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3260 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3261 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3262 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3263 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3264
4aac9b49
PH
3265PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3266 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3267 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3268 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3269 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3270 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3271 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3272 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3273
294520c8
TK
3274TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3275 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3276 details.
3277
5bd022fe
PH
3278PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3279 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3280
90e9ce59
PH
3281PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3282 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3283 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3284 test. It is now used for both.
3285
5ea81592
PH
3286PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3287 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3288 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3289 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3290 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3291 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3292
c6c2dc1d
PH
3293PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3294 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3295 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3296 string_vformat().
3297
fffffe4c
PH
3298PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3299 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3300 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3301
9a26b6b2
PH
3302PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3303 experimental DomainKeys support:
3304
3305 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3306 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3307 the control was given.
3308
3309 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3310
4aee0225
PH
3311PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3312
32d668a5
PH
3313PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3314
8187c3f3
PH
3315PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3316 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3317 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3318 db.h files).
3319
ff790e47 3320PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3321 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3322 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3323 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3324 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3325 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3326 course.
ff790e47 3327
5417f6d1
PH
3328PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3329 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3330 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3331 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3332 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3333 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3334
59cf8544
PH
3335PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3336 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3337 do -d+all out of habit.
3338
e7ad8a65
PH
3339PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3340 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3341 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3342
ade42478
PH
3343PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3344 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3345 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3346 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3347 record types that Exim uses.
3348
182ad5cf
PH
3349PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3350 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3351 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3352 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3353 non-existent file that was broken.
3354
b0d9fc80
TK
3355TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3356 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3357
3358TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3359 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3360 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3361
3362TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3363
47c7a64a
PH
3364PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3365 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3366 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3367 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3368 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3369 same time.
3370
a388bce4
SC
3371SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3372 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3373 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3374 at a slight CPU cost.
3375
3376SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3377 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3378
3379SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3380 by Marc Sherman.
3381
0793e4ed
SC
3382SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3383
c58b88df
PH
3384PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3385 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3386
e7ad8a65 3387
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3388Exim version 4.51
3389-----------------
3390
1a46a8c5
PH
3391TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3392 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3393
2f079f46 3394TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3395
3396TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3397
3398PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3399 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3400
3401PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3402 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3403 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3404 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3405 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3406 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3407 file.
3408
3409PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3410 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3411 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3412 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3413 these two options.
3414
3415PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3416 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3417 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3418 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3419 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3420 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3421 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3422 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3423
3424PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3425 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3426
3427PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3428 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3429 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3430 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3431 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3432 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3433
3434PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3435 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3436 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3437 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3438
3439PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3440 Finch).
3441
3442PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3443 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3444
49c2d5ea
PH
3445PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3446 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3447 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3448 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3449 message.
49c2d5ea 3450
bf759a8b
PH
3451PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3452
83364d30
PH
3453PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3454 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3455
7999bbd7
PH
3456PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3457 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3458 to what was transported.)
3459
7dbf77c9
PH
3460TF/01 Added $received_time.
3461
74e0617f
PH
3462PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3463 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3464 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3465 spamd_address settings.
3466
2f079f46
PH
3467PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3468 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3469 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3470 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3471 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3472
8c841523
PH
3473PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3474
7766a4f0
PH
3475PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3476 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3477 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3478 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3479 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3480
8b417f2c
PH
3481PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3482 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3483
901f42cb
PH
3484PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3485 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3486 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3487 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3488 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3489 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3490 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3491 for failure.
3492
f9b9210e
PH
3493PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3494 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3495 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3496 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3497 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3498 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3499 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3500 "input=".
3501
54cdb463
PH
3502PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3503
cf00dad6
PH
3504PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3505 driver and ACL definitions.
3506
acb1b346
PH
3507PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3508 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3509
c5ddb310
PH
3510PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3511 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3512 understands it better than I do:
3513
3514 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3515 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3516
3517 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3518 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3519 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3520 => three warnings about OTP not working
3521 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3522
3523 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3524 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3525 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3526 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3527 for each call.)
3528 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3529 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3530
3531 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3532 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3533 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3534
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PH
3535PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3536 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3537 specified.
3538
bebaf0fc
PH
3539PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3540 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3541 "Linux".
3542
475fe28a
PH
3543PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3544 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3545 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3546
3547 warn !verify = sender
3548 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3549
3550 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3551 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3552
7e8bec7a
PH
3553PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3554
3555 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3556 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3557
3558 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3559 nomenclature these days.)
3560
e4a89c47
PH
3561PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3562 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3563
5ca2a9a1
PH
3564PH/30 In these circumstances:
3565 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3566 . First host does not offer TLS;
3567 . First host accepts first address;
3568 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3569 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3570 . Second host accepts second address.
3571 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3572 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3573 address.
7e8bec7a 3574
c688b954
PH
3575PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3576 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3577 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3578 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3579 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3580
fed77020
PH
3581PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3582 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3583
7fe1560f
PH
3584PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3585 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3586
ebb6e6d5
PH
3587PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3588 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3589 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3590
9c4e8f60
PH
3591PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3592 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3593 overlooked.
3594
3595PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3596
d7174846
PH
3597PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3598 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3599 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3600 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3601 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3602 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3603 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3604
3605 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3606 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3607 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3608 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3609 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3610
3611 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3612 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3613 routed further.
3614
cfe75fc3
PH
3615PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3616 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3617 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3618 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3619 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3620 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3621
be22d70e
PH
3622PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3623
0612b098
PH
3624PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3625 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3626 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3627 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3628 printable escape sequences.
3629
2e0c1448
PH
3630PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3631 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3632 body only.
3633
447d236c
PH
3634PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3635 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3636 are as follows:
3637
3638 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3639 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3640 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3641 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3642 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3643
3644 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3645 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3646 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3647
d20976dc
PH
3648PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3649
f656d135
PH
3650PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3651 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3652 play with."
3653
2e2a30b4
PH
3654PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3655 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3656 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3657 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3658 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3659 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3660 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3661 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3662 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3663 the log output.
3664
9176e9f0
PH
3665PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3666 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3667 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3668 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3669 "make".
3670
7982096b 3671
bbe902f0
PH
3672A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3673----------------------------------------
3674
3675Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3676changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3677needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3678in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3679that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3680release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3681from 4.43.
3682
3683I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
36844.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3685those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3686historical information.
3687
3688
f7b63901 3689Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3690-----------------
3691
5fe762f6
PH
3692 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3693
139059f6 3694 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3695 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3696
7086e875
PH
3697 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3698 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3699 place.
3700
35af9f61
PH
3701 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3702 filter fails to execute.
3703
b668c215
PH
3704 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3705 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3706 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3707 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3708 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3709
a494b1e1
PH
3710 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3711
3712 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3713 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3714 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3715 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3716
c5fcb476
PH
3717 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3718 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3719 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3720 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3721 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3722
69358f02
PH
3723 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3724
5be20824
PH
372510. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3726
eb2c0248
PH
372711. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3728 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3729 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3730 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3731
2a3eea10
PH
373212. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3733 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3734 sender verification.
3735
373613. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3737 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3738
23c7ff99
PH
373914. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3740
4deaf07d
PH
374115. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3742 connection timeout.
3743
926e1192
PH
374416. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3745 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3746
650edc6f
PH
374717. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3748 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3749
2c7db3f5
PH
375018. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3751 information about exactly what failed.
3752
3d235903
PH
375319. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3754
7c7ad977
PH
375520. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3756 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3757 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3758
981756db
PH
375921. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3760 It is now set to "smtps".
3761
d4eb88df
PH
376222. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3763 ignore_target_hosts.
3764
376523. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3766 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3767 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3768 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3769 "[x.x.x.x]".
3770
7d468ab8
PH
377124. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3772 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3773 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3774
377525. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3776 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3777 wake it up if nothing else does.
3778
62c0818f
PH
377926. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3780 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3781 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3782 end up negative.
3783
26034054
PH
378427. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3785 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3786
af66f652
PH
378728. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3788
90af77f4
PH
378929. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3790 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3791 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3792 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3793 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3794 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3795 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3796 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3797
d8ef3577
PH
379830. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3799 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3800 than one IP address.
3801
5cb8cbc6
PH
380231. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3803 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3804 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3805 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3806
14702f5b
PH
380732. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3808 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3809 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3810 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3811 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3812 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3813
063b1e99
PH
381433. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3815 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3816 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3817 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3818
652e1b65
PH
381934. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3820 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3821 respected.
3822
6f0c9a4f
PH
382335. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3824 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3825 $sender_host_address.
3826
33397d19
PH
382736. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3828 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3829 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3830 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3831 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3832 very small.
3833
7bb56e1f
PH
383437. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3835
3836 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3837 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3838
ea3bc19b
PH
3839 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3840 just the host names, not the priorities.
3841
3842 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3843 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3844 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3845
ea3bc19b 3846 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3847 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3848
0bcb2a0e
PH
384938. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3850 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3851 domain.
3852
2ac0e484
PH
385339. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3854
4e1fde53
PH
385540. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3856 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3857
de365ded
PH
385841. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3859 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3860 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3861
f05da2e8
PH
386242. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3863
d6453af2
PH
386443. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3865
f7b63901
PH
386644. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3867
386845. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3869 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3870 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3871 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3872 because the tests only now provoked it.
3873
a444213a
PH
387446. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3875 (this can affect the format of dates).
3876
0ec020ea
PH
387747. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3878 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3879 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3880 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3881
b1206957
PH
388248. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3883
388449. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3885 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3886 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3887 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3888
26dd5a95
PH
388950. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3890 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3891 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3892
343b2385
PH
389351. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3894 autoreply.
3895
1c5466b9
PH
389652. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3897 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3898 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3899 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3900 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3901 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3902 is going on).
3903
55ee9ee3
PH
390453. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3905 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3906 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3907 the line.
3908
d38f8232
PH
390954. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3910 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3911 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3912
3913 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3914 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3915 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3916 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3917 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3918 so I produce this patch..."
3919
3295e65b
PH
3920 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3921 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3922 is not defined.
3923
7102e136
PH
392455. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3925 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3926 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3927 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3928 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3929
3ca0ba97
PH
393056. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3931
c2bcbe20
PH
393257. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3933 long debug lines gets shown.
3934
18ce445d
PH
393558. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3936 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3937
1f5b4c3d
PH
393859. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3939
3940 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3941 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3942 of $primary_hostname.
3943
b975ba52
PH
394460. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3945 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3946 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3947 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3948 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3949 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3950 by change 4.50/55 above.
3951
3952 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3953 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3954 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3955 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3956 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3957 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3958 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3959
396061. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3961 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3962 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3963 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3964
17ffcae7
PH
396562. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3966 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3967
d95f9fdb
PH
396863. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3969 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3970 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3971 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3972 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3973
86b8287f
PH
397464. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3975 This has been fixed.
3976
60dc5e56
PH
397765. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3978 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3979 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3980 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3981 the caching.)
3982
533244af
PH
398366. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3984
a5a28604
PH
398567. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3986 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3987 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3988 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3989
7e634d24
PH
399068. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3991 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3992
3e11c26b
PH
399369. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3994 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3995 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3996
6729cf78
PH
399770. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3998 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3999 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4000 message there.
4001
00f00ca5
PH
400271. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4003 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4004 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4005
c9bdd01c
PH
400672. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4007 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4008 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4009 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4010
d43194df
PH
401173. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4012 during host lookups.
4013
fe5b5d0b
PH
401474. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4015 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4016
4017 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4018
76a2d7ba
PH
401975. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4020 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4021 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4022 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4023 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4024 background.
4025
402676. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4027 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4028
04f7d5b9
PH
402977. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4030 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4031 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4032
bc60667e
PH
403378. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4034
bb6e88ff
PH
403579. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4036 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4037 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4038 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4039 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4040 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4041 process earlier.
4042
1e70f85b
PH
404380. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4044 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4045 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4046 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4047 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4048
404981. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4050 tables).
4051
4e01f9d6
PH
405282. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4053
1ee1cef2
PH
405483. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4055 "vacation" handling.
4056
6e2b4ccc
PH
405784. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4058 OS variants using glibc.
4059
8e669ac1
PH
406085. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4061
495ae4b0 4062
bbe902f0
PH
4063----------------------------------------------------
4064See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4065----------------------------------------------------
4066
4067
4068Exim version 4.44
4069-----------------
4070
4071 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4072 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4073 transport
4074
4075 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4076 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4077 place.
4078
4079 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4080 filter fails to execute.
4081
4082 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4083 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4084 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4085 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4086 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4087
4088 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4089 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4090 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4091 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4092
4093 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4094 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4095 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4096 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4097 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4098
4099 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4100
4101 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4102 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4103 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4104 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4105
4106 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4107 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4108 sender verification.
4109
411010. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4111 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4112
411311. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4114 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4115
411612. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4117 ignore_target_hosts.
4118
411913. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4120 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4121 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4122 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4123 "[x.x.x.x]".
4124
412514. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4126 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4127 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4128
412915. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4130 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4131 wake it up if nothing else does.
4132
413316. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4134 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4135 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4136 end up negative.
4137
413817. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4139 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4140
ea3a6f44 414118. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4142
414319. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4144 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4145 empty pattern.
4146
414720. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4148 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4149 one IP address.
4150
ea3a6f44
NM
415121. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4152 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4153 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4154 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4155 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4156 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4157
ea3a6f44
NM
415822. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4159 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4160 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4161
416223. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4163 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4164 $sender_host_address.
4165
416624. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4167
ea3a6f44
NM
416825. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4169 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4170 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4171
417226. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4173 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4174
ea3a6f44
NM
417527. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4176 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4177
ea3a6f44
NM
417828. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4179 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4180 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4181 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4182
418329. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4184 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4185 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4186
ea3a6f44
NM
418730. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4188 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4189 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4190 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4191
ea3a6f44
NM
419231. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4193 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4194 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4195
ea3a6f44
NM
419631. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4197 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4198
ea3a6f44
NM
419932. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4200 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4201 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4202 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4203 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4204 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4205 is going on).
bbe902f0 4206
ea3a6f44
NM
420733. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4208 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4209 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4210 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4211 CAN-2005-0021
4212
ea3a6f44
NM
421334. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4214 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4215 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4216 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4217 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4218 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4219 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4220
4221 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4222 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4223 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4224 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4225 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4226 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4227 CAN-2005-0021
4228
ea3a6f44
NM
422935. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4230 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4231 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4232 CAN-2005-0022
4233
ea3a6f44
NM
423436. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4235 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4236 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4237 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4238 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4239
ea3a6f44
NM
424037. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4241 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4242 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4243 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4244 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4245
ea3a6f44
NM
424638. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4247 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4248 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4249 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4250 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4251
4252
495ae4b0
PH
4253Exim version 4.43
4254-----------------
4255
4256 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4257 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4258 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4259 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4260 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4261 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4262 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4263
4264 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4265 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4266 the delivery.
4267
4268 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4269
4270 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4271
4272 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4273 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4274 to local_scan().
4275
4276 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4277 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4278 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4279 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4280 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4281
4282 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4283 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4284
4285 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4286
4287 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4288
428910. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4290 header_sender only.
4291
429211. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4293 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4294
429512. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4296 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4297 affecting debugging statements).
4298
429913. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4300
430114. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4302 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4303 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4304 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4305 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4306 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4307 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4308 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4309 after the received time, and all would be well.
4310
431115. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4312 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4313 condition in an expansion string.
4314
431516. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4316
431717. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4318 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4319 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4320 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4321 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4322 job under whatever limits there are.
4323
432418. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4325
432619. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4327 space).
4328
432920. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4330 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4331 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4332 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4333 return path is set.
4334
433521. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4336 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4337 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4338 binary data in such strings.
4339
434022. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4341
434223. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4343 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4344 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4345 failure, which is pointless.
4346
434724. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4348
434925. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4350
435126. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4352 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4353 Sender: header lines.
4354
435527. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4356 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4357 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4358
435928. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4360 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4361 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4362 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4363 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4364 happens.
4365
436629. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4367 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4368 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4369 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4370 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4371
437230. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4373 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4374 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4375 1024.
4376
437731. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4378 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4379
438032. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4381 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4382
438333. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4384
438532. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4386
438733. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4388
438934. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4390 syntax error.
4391
439235. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4393
439436. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4395
439637. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4397 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4398 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4399 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4400
440138. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4402 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4403
4404
4405Exim version 4.42
4406-----------------
4407
4408 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4409 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4410 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4411 it was not quoted.
4412 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4413 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4414 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4415 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4416 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4417 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4418
4419 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4420 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4421 verification failure".
4422
4423 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4424 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4425 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4426 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4427
4428 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4429 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4430 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4431 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4432 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4433 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4434 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4435 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4436 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4437 treated as a timeout.
4438
4439 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4440 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4441 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4442 not set for Exim filters).
4443
4444 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4445 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4446 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4447
4448 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4449
4450 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4451 try to make them clearer.
4452
4453 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4454 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4455
4456 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4457
4458 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4459
446010. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4461 only the Cygwin environment.
4462
446311. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4464 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4465 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4466 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4467 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4468
446912. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4470 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4471 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4472 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4473 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4474 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4475 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4476
447713. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4478 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4479
448014. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4481
4482 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4483 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4484 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4485
4486 To: susanne@some.where
4487
4488 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4489 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4490 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4491 of addresses in From: header lines).
4492
4493 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4494 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4495 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4496
4497 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4498 treated as non-personal.
4499
4500 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4501 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4502
450315. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4504
450516. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4506
450717. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4508 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4509 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4510
451118. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4512 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4513
451419. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4515 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4516 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4517 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4518 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4519 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4520
452120. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4522 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4523 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4524 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4525 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4526 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4527 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4528 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4529
4530 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4531
453221. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4533 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4534
453522. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4536 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4537 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4538
453923. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4540 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4541
454224. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4543 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4544 rather than long int.
4545
454625. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4547
454826. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4549
4550
4551Exim version 4.41
4552-----------------
4553
4554 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4555 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4556 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4557 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4558 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4559 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4560
4561
4562Exim version 4.40
4563-----------------
4564
4565 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4566 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4567
4568 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4569 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4570 socklen_t is defined.
4571
4572 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4573 always exist.
4574
4575 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4576 configured.
4577
4578 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4579 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4580 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4581 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4582 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4583
4584 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4585 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4586 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4587 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4588
4589 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4590 of flapping under certain conditions.
4591
4592 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4593 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4594 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4595
4596 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4597
459810. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4599
460011. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4601 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4602 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4603 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4604
460512. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4606 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4607 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4608 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4609 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4610 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4611 preserved with the message after it was received.
4612
461313. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4614 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4615 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4616 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4617 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4618 test suite worked just fine.
4619
462014. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4621 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4622 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4623
462415. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4625 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4626 string.
4627
462816. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4629 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4630 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4631 does not fully solve it.
4632
463317. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4634 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4635 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4636 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4637 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4638
463918. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4640 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4641 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4642
464319. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4644 string, for example:
4645
4646 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4647
4648 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4649 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4650 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4651 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4652 the routers could not see them.
4653
465420. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4655 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4656
465721. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4658 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4659 output).
4660
466122. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4662 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4663 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4664 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4665 that needed quoting.
4666
466723. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4668 was not being matched caselessly.
4669
467024. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4671 backslashes.
4672
467325. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4674 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4675 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4676 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4677 when use_sender is false.
4678
467926. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4680
468127. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4682
468328. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4684
468529. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4686 the configuration file.
4687
468830. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4689 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4690
469131. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4692
469332. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4694 bytes in the message body.
4695
469633. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4697 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4698 delivery.
4699
470034. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4701
470235. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4703
470436. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4705 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4706 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4707 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4708 another IP address.
4709
4710
4711Exim version 4.34
4712-----------------
4713
4714 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4715 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4716
4717 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4718 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4719 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4720 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4721 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4722
4723 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4724 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4725
4726 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4727 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4728 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4729
4730 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4731 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4732 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4733
4734 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4735 for routers.
4736
4737 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4738 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4739 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4740 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4741 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4742 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4743 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4744
4745
4746Exim version 4.33
4747-----------------
4748
4749 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4750 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4751 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4752 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4753 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4754 default (and expected) setting.
4755
4756 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4757 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4758 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4759 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4760
4761 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4762 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4763
4764 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4765 in domain lists.
4766
4767 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4768 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4769 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4770 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4771 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4772 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4773
4774 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4775 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4776 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4777
4778 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4779 part (NOT match_host).
4780
4781 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4782
4783 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4784 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4785 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4786 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4787 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4788 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4789 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4790 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4791 the same named file.
4792
479310. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4794 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4795 when Exim is built.
4796
479711. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4798 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4799 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4800 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4801 a host name.
4802
480312. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4804 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4805 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4806
480713. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4808
480914. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4810
481115. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4812
481316. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4814 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4815
481617. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4817 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4818 before starting the TLS session.
4819
482018. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4821
482219. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4823 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4824
482520. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4826 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4827 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4828 colon in the middle).
4829
4830
4831Exim version 4.32
4832-----------------
4833
4834 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4835 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4836 multiple configurations are in use.
4837
4838 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4839 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4840 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4841 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4842 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4843 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4844
4845 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4846 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4847
4848 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4849 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4850 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4851
4852 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4853 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4854 occurs.
4855
4856 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4857 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4858
4859 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4860
4861 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4862 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4863
4864 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4865
4866 -prval:sval
4867
4868 is equivalent to
4869
4870 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4871
4872 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4873 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4874 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4875 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4876 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4877
487810. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4879 Exim's behaviour:
4880
4881 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4882 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4883 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4884 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4885 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4886 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4887
4888 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4889 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4890 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4891 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4892 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4893 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4894 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4895 string.
4896
4897 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4898 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4899 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4900 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4901 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4902
490311. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4904
490512. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4906 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4907 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4908
490913. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4910
491114. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4912 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4913 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4914 information.
4915
491615. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4917 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4918
491916. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4920 Three changes have been made:
4921
4922 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4923 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4924 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4925 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4926 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4927
4928 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4929 been restored.
4930
4931 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4932 the modified behaviour.
4933
4934
4935Exim version 4.31
4936-----------------
4937
4938 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4939 Larry Rosenman.
4940
4941 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4942 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4943
4944 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4945 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4946 try to track down a specific problem.
4947
4948 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4949 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4950 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4951
4952 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4953 warning.
4954
4955 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4956 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4957 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4958 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4959 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4960 some earlier ones do not.
4961
4962 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4963
4964 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4965 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4966 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4967 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4968 address literals are enabled, of course).
4969
4970 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4971
497210. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4973 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4974 by a command such as
4975
4976 exim -f "" ...
4977
4978 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4979
498011. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4981
498212. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4983 remained set. It is now erased.
4984
498513. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4986 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4987
498814. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4989 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4990 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4991 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4992 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4993 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4994 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4995 appropriate error code.
4996
499715. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4998 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4999 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5000 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5001 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5002 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5003
500416. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5005 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5006 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5007
500817. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5009 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5010 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5011 terminate the header.
5012
501318. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5014 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5015 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5016
501719. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5018 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5019 (4.30/29). In particular:
5020
5021 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5022 imposed.
5023
5024 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5025 to write a maildirsize file.
5026
5027 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5028 the transport, the new value overrides.
5029
5030 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5031 count.
5032
503320. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5034 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5035 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5036 space or a tab.
5037
503821. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5039 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5040 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5041 the fallback hosts.
5042
504322. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5044 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5045 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5046
504723. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5048 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5049 using a union.
5050
505124. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5052 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5053 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5054
505525. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5056
505726. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5058
505927. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5060
506128. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5062 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5063 become corrupted.
5064
506529. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5066 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5067 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5068 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5069 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5070 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5071 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5072 too great.
5073
507430. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5075 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5076 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5077 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5078 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5079 incorrectly.
5080
508131. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5082 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5083 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5084 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5085 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5086 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5087 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5088 cached value only when the same options are set.
5089
509032. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5091
509233. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5093 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5094 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5095 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5096 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5097
509834: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5099 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5100 it is clearly obsolete.
5101
510235. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5103 transport.
5104
510536. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5106 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5107 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5108 times.
5109
511037. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5111 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5112 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5113 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5114 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5115
511638. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5117 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5118 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5119 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5120
512139. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5122
5123 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5124
5125 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5126 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5127 2^31.
5128
512940. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5130 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5131 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5132 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5133 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5134 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5135 $localpart_data.
5136
513741. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5138 with the -f command-line option.
5139
514042. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5141 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5142 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5143 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5144 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5145 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5146
514743. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5148 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5149 line.
5150
515144. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5152 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5153 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5154 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5155 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5156 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5157 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5158 buffer is too small.
5159
516045. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5161 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5162
516346. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5164 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5165 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5166 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5167 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5168 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5169 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5170 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5171 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5172
517347. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5174 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5175 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5176
517748. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5178 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5179 ACL").
5180
518149. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5182 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5183 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5184 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5185 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5186
518750. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5188 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5189 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5190 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5191 is set.
5192
519351. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5194
519552. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5196
519753. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5198 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5199
520054. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5201 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5202 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5203
520455. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5205 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5206 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5207 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5208 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5209
521056. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5211 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5212 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5213 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5214 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5215 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5216 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5217
521857. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5219 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5220 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5221 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5222 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5223 the test of how many are available.
5224
522558. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5226 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5227 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5228 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5229 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5230 new message is started.
5231
523259. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5233 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5234
523560. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5236 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5237
523861. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5239 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5240 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5241 is no long logged.
5242
524362. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5244 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5245 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5246 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5247 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5248 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5249 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5250
525163. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5252 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5253 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5254 interpreted as octal.
5255
525664. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5257 setting.
5258
525965. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5260 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5261 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5262 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5263 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5264 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5265
526666. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5267 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5268 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5269 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5270
5271 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5272 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5273 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5274 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5275
5276 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5277 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5278 is a bug fix.
5279
5280 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5281 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5282
528367. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5284
528568. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5286 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5287 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5288 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5289
529069. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5291 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5292 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5293 supplied", which is not helpful.
5294
529570. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5296 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5297 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5298
529971. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5300 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5301 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5302 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5303 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5304 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5305 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5306 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5307
530872. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5309 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5310 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5311 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5312 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5313
531473. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5315 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5316 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5317 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5318 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5319 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5320
532174. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5322 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5323 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5324
532575. Added write_rejectlog option.
5326
532776. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5328 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5329 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5330 variables.
5331
533277. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5333
533478. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5335 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5336 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5337 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5338 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5339 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5340 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5341 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5342
534379. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5344 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5345 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5346 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5347 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5348
534980. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5350 Haardt.
5351
535281. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5353 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5354 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5355 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5356 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5357 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5358 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5359 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5360 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5361
5362
5363Exim version 4.30
5364-----------------
5365
5366 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5367 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5368 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5369
5370 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5371 fixed.
5372
5373 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5374 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5375 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5376
5377 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5378 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5379 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5380 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5381 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5382 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5383
5384 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5385 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5386 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5387 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5388 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5389 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5390 the Exim test suite.
5391
5392 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5393 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5394 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5395 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5396
5397 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5398 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5399 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5400 specify it in this variable.
5401
5402 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5403 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5404 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5405 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5406
5407 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5408 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5409 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5410 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5411
5412 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5413 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5414 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5415 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5416 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5417
5418 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5419
542010. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5421 they are logged.
5422
542311. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5424 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5425 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5426 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5427 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5428
542912. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5430 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5431
543213. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5433 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5434 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5435 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5436 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5437
543814. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5439 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5440
544115. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5442 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5443 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5444
544516. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5446 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5447
544817. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5449 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5450
545118. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5452 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5453 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5454
545519. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5456 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5457
545820. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5459 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5460 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5461 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5462
546321. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5464
546522. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5466 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5467 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5468 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5469
547023. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5471
547224. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5473 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5474
547525. Added .include_if_exists.
5476
547726. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5478 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5479 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5480 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5481 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5482 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5483
548427. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5485
548628. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5487 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5488 this.
5489
549029. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5491
549230. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5493 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5494
5495 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5496 550 Sender verify failed
5497
5498 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5499 the final line of the response.
5500
550131. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5502 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5503 all other user lookups.
5504
550532. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5506 delivery time.
5507
550833. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5509 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5510 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5511 result into an int without checking.
5512
551334. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5514 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5515 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5516
551735. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5518 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5519 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5520 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5521
552236. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5523 correctly.
5524
552537. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5526 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5527
552838. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5529 to the empty sender.
5530
553139. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5532 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5533 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5534 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5535 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5536 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5537 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5538 panic log.
5539
554040. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5541 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5542 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5543 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5544 used.
5545
554641. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5547 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5548
554942. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5550 timestamps.
5551
555243. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5553 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5554
555544. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5556
555745. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5558 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5559 logs.
5560
556146. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5562 as soon as it is encountered.
5563
556447. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5565
556648. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5567 rewritten to "<>".
5568
556949. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5570 recognizes a tab character.
5571
557250. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5573 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5574 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5575 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5576
557751. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5578
557952. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5580 crash.
5581
558253. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5583
558454. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5585
558655. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5587 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5588 2822.
5589
559056. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5591 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5592 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5593 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5594 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5595
559657. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5597 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5598
559958. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5600 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5601 list (.included file names were always shown).
5602
560359. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5604 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5605 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5606 root at that time.
5607
560860. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5609 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5610
561161. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5612
561362. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5614
561563. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5616
561764. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5618 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5619 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5620 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5621 failures to open the logs.
5622
562365. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5624 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5625 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5626 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5627 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5628 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5629 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5630
5631
5632Exim version 4.24
5633-----------------
5634
5635 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5636 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5637 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5638 change 4.23/1.
5639
5640 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5641 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5642 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5643
5644 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5645 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5646 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5647
5648 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5649 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5650 causing some misleading effects.
5651
5652 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5653 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5654 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5655
5656 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5657 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5658 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5659 queue-runner function directly.
5660
5661
5662Exim version 4.23
5663-----------------
5664
5665 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5666 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5667
5668 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5669 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5670 was always written to the default place.
5671
5672 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5673 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5674 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5675
5676 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5677
5678 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5679
5680 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5681 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5682 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5683
5684 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5685 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5686 must start.
5687
5688 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5689 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5690 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5691
5692 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5693 command line option is disabled.
5694
5695 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5696 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5697
5698 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5699
5700 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5701
5702 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5703 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5704
570510. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5706
570711. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5708 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5709 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5710 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5711 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5712 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5713
571412. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5715 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5716 timeout.
5717
571813. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5719 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5720
572114. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5722 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5723
572415. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5725 received was valid base64.
5726
572716. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5728 name of the variable that was being set.
5729
573017. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5731
573218. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5733 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5734 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5735 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5736 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5737 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5738
573919. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5740
574120. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5742 nor realm was specified.
5743
574421. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5745 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5746 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5747 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5748
574922. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5750 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5751 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5752
575323. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5754 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5755 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5756
575724. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5758 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5759 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5760 some systems use these upper case variants.
5761
576225. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5763 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5764 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5765 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5766
576726. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5768
576927. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5770 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5771
577228. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5773 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5774 expansion variable.
5775
577629. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5777
577830. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5779 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5780 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5781 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5782
578331. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5784 using it.
5785
578632. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5787 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5788 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5789
579033. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5791 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5792
579334. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5794 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5795 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5796 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5797
579835. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5799 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5800 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5801
580236. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5803
580437. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5805 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5806 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5807 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5808 aborted.
5809
581038. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5811 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5812 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5813
581439. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5815
581640. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5817 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5818
581941. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5820 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5821
582242. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5823 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5824 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5825 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5826 when emails are that large.
5827
5828
5829
5830Exim version 4.22
5831-----------------
5832
5833 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5834 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5835
5836 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5837 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5838 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5839
5840 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5841 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5842 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5843
5844 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5845 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5846 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5847 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5848 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5849
5850 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5851 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5852 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5853 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5854 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5855 ever.
5856
5857 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5858 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5859 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5860 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5861 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5862 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5863 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5864 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5865 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5866 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5867 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5868 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5869 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5870 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5871
5872 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5873 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5874 parameterised it.
5875
5876 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5877 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5878 error should be diagnosed.
5879
5880 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5881 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5882 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5883 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5884 appeared instead of "NULL".
5885
588610. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5887 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5888 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5889 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5890 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5891 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5892 proceeds).
5893
5894 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5895 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5896 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5897
5898
5899Exim version 4.21
5900-----------------
5901
5902 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5903 or receiver verification errors.
5904
5905 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5906 name.
5907
5908 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5909 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5910 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5911 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5912
5913 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5914 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5915 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5916 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5917 shouldn't happen again.
5918
5919 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5920 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5921 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5922
5923 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5924 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5925
5926 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5927
5928 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5929 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5930
5931 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5932 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5933 RFC.
5934
593510. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5936 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5937 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5938
593911. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5940 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5941 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5942 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5943
594412. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5945 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5946 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5947 to define what should happen).
5948
594913. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5950 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5951 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5952
595314. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5954
595515. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5956
595716. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5958 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5959
596017. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5961 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5962 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5963 structure in all cases.
5964
5965 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5966 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5967 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5968 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5969
597018. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5971 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5972 domain name.
5973
597419. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5975 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5976
597720. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5978 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5979
598021. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5981 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5982 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5983
598422. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5985 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5986 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5987
598823. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5989 the book and for uniformity.
5990
599124. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5992
599325. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5994 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5995 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5996 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5997 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5998 non-existent command as the problem.
5999
600026. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6001 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6002 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6003
600427. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6005
600628. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6007 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6008 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6009
601029. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6011 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6012 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6013 timestamps using strftime().
6014
601530. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6016 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6017
601832. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6019 transport-time rewrites.
6020
602133. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6022 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6023 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6024 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6025
602634. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6027 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6028
602935. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6030 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6031 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6032 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6033 comma and a space.
6034
603536. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6036 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6037 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6038 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6039 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6040 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6041 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6042
604337. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6044 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6045 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6046 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6047 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6048
604938. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6050 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6051 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6052 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6053 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6054 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6055 remaining text gets split now.
6056
605739. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6058 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6059 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6060 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6061
606240. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6063 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6064 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6065 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6066 $return_path.
6067
606841. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6069 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6070 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6071 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6072 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6073 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6074 passed through if needed.
6075
607642. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6077 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6078 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6079 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6080 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6081 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6082
608343. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6084 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6085 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6086 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6087 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6088
608944. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6090 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6091 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6092 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6093 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6094
609545. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6096 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6097 noticed.
6098
609946. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6100 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6101 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6102 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6103 mayhem of various kinds.
6104
610547. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6106 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6107 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6108 the right test for positive values.
6109
611048. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6111 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6112 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6113 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6114 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6115 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6116 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6117 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6118 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6119 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6120 envelope.
6121
612249. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6123 module.
6124
612550. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6126 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6127 forbidding it.
6128
612951. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6130 the existing equality matching.
6131
613252. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6133 dealing with inode numbers.
6134
613553. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6136 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6137 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6138
613954. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6140 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6141 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6142 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6143 local_scan().
6144
614555. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6146 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6147 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6148 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6149 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6150 relay addresses has also been removed.
6151
615256. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6153
615457. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6155 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6156 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6157
615858. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6159 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6160 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6161 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6162 processing applies to CR:
6163
6164 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6165 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6166
6167 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6168 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6169 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6170 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6171
617259. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6173 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6174 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6175
617660. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6177 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6178 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6179 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6180 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6181 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6182 arisen.
6183
618461. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6185 program routers.
6186
618762. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6188 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6189 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6190 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6191 adds:
6192
6193 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6194
6195 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6196
6197 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6198
619963. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6200 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6201 not considered personal.
6202
620364. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6204
620565. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6206
620766. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6208
620967. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6210 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6211 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6212 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6213 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6214 header lines, and spool format errors.
6215
621668. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6217 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6218 for more flexibility.
6219
622069. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6221 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6222 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6223
622470. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6225 Sabourenkov.
6226
622771. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6228 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6229 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6230 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6231 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6232 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6233 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6234 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6235 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6236
623772. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6238 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6239 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6240 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6241 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6242 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6243 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6244
624573. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6246 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6247 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6248
624974. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6250 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6251 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6252 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6253 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6254 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6255 instead of killing the process with assert().
6256
625775. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6258 than Unicode encoding.
6259
626076. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6261 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6262 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6263 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6264
626577. Added process_log_path.
6266
626778. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6268 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6269
627079. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6271 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6272
627380. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6274 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6275 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6276
627781. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6278 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6279 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6280 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6281 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6282 were applied:
6283
6284 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6285 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6286 as invalid.
6287
628882. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6289 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6290 they will be used during message reception.
6291
6292
6293Exim version 4.20
6294-----------------
6295
6296The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6297
6298****