CHUNKING: pipeline data right after the BDAT command
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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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10
11JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
12 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
13 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
14 pairs of long lines into single ones.
15
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16PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
17 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
18
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19JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
20 This permits better logging.
21
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22JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
23 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
24 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
25 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
26 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 27 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 28
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29JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
30 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
31 "exiwhat" output.
32
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33PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
34 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
35 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
36
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37JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
38 than 255 are no longer allowed.
39
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40JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
41 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
42 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
43 client, there is no benefit for these.
44 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
45 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
46 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
47 is used (3.2.4 +).
48
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49PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
50 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
51
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52JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
53 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
54 erroneously found still-pending ones.
55
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56JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
57 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
58
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9427e879 63JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 64 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
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66JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
67
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68PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
69 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
70
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71JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
72 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
73
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74JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
75 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
76 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
77 before acknowledging the chunk.
78
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79PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
80 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
81 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
82
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83JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
84 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
85 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
86 should.
87
88JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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89 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
90 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
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bd8fbe36 92JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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93 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
94
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95JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
96 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
97 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
98 body hash calculated value.
99
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100JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
101 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
102 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
103
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104JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
105
106JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
107 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
108
109JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
110 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
111 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
112
113JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
114 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
115 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
116 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
117 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
118 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
119
120JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
121 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
122 past that check, despite the cost.
123
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124JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
125 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
126 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
127
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128PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
129 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
130 TLS library to consume.
131
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132PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
133
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134PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
135
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136JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
137 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
138 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
139 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
140 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
141 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
142 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
143
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144PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
145
146PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
147
148PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
149 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
150 should be warning-free.
151
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152JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
153
154HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
155 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
156
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157HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
158 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
159 general solution here.
160
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161PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
162 already-broken messages in the queue.
163
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164JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
165
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166JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
167
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172JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
173 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 174
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175JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
176 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
177 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
178
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179JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
180 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
181 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
182 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
183 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
184 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
185 if one fails this test.
186 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
187 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
188
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189JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
190 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
191
23bb6982 192JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 193 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 194
0bd1b1ed 195JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 196 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 197
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198JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
199 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
200
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201JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
202 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
203
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204JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
205
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206JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
207 certificate).
208
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209JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
210 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
211 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
212 connection after a verify cache hit.
213 Do not update it with the verify result either.
214
215JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
216 when routing results in more than one destination address.
217
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218JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
219 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
220 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
221 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
222 when the cutthrough connection is made).
223
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224JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
225 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
226
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227JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
228 Previously they were not counted.
229
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230JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
231 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
232 that needed the lookup.
233
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235 distinguished as "(=".
236
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237JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
238 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
239
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240JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
241
242JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
243 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 244
4c04137d 245JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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246 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
247
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248JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
249 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
250 compatible.
251
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252JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
253 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
254 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
255 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
256
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257JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
258
f59aaaaa 259JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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260 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
261 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 262
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263JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
264 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
265 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
266 be lost.
267
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268JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
269 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
270 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
271 itself :(
272
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273JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
274 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
275 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
276
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277JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
278 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
279 options.
280
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281JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
282
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283PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
284 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
285
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286PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
287 are not in the system include path.
288
ad7fc6eb 289JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 290 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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291 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
292 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 293
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294JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
295 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
296 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
297
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298JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
299
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300HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
301 an incoming connection.
302
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303HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
304 to rspamd.
305
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306HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
307 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 308
87cb4a16 309JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 310 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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312
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313Exim version 4.87
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316JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
317 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
318 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
319 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 320
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321TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
322 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
323
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324TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
325 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
326 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
327 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
328 outgoing I= field.
329
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330JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
331 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
332 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
333 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
334 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
335 check on the next write.
336
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337HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
338 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
339 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
340 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
341 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
342
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343JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
344 mime_regex ACL conditions.
345
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346JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
347 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
348 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
349
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350JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
351 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
352 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
353 an authenticate fail is not an error.
354
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355HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
356 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
357
4c04137d 358JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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359 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
360
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361JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
362 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
363 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
364 distinct.
365
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366JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
367
368JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
369
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370JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
371
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372JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
373 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
374
98b98887 375JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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376 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
377
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378JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
379
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380JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
381 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
382
383JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
384
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385JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
386 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
387
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388JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
389
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390JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
391 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 392 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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393 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
394 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
395 they will retry in-clear.
396 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
397 at installation time.
398
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399HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
400 with the $config_file variable.
401
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402JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
403 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
404 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
405 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 406 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 407
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408GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
409 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
410 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
411 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
412 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
413
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414JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
415
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416JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
417 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
418 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
419 list order is no longer honoured.
420
4c04137d 421JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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422 for DKIM processing.
423
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424JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
425 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 426
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427JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
428 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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429 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
430 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 431
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432JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
433 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
434
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435JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
436 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
437
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438JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
439 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
440
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441JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
442
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443JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
444 cached by the daemon.
445
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446JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
447 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
448
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449JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
450 keys are given for lookup.
451
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452JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
453 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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454 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
455 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 456
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457JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
458 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
459 server-side so match that on older versions.
460
07c73177 461JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 462 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 463 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 464
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465JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
466 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
467
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468JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
469 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
470 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 471 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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472 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
473 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
474 initial truncated version.
475
ab9152ff 476JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 477
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478JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
479
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480JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
481 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
482
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483JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
484
bc3c7bb7 485HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 486
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487JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
488 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
489 induced overflows.
490
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491JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
492 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
493 stage.
494
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495JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
496 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
497
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498JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
499 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
500 former class.
501
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502JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
503 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
504 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
505
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506JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
507 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
508 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
509 extraction. Accept either.
510
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515JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
516 expanded.
517
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518JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
519
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520JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
521 it.
522
01a4a5c5 523JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 524 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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525 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
526 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
527
cb1d7830 528JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 529 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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530 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
531
610ff438 532JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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533 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
534 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
535 TLS connections
610ff438 536
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537JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
538 sites use this now.
539
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540JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
541 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
542 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
543 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
544 have a dsn_lasthop option.
545
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546JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
547 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 548 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 549
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550JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
551
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552JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
553 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
554
5032d1cf
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555JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
556 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
557
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558JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
559 /defer_ok option.
560
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561JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
562 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
563
fd4d8871 564JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 565 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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566 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
567
568JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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569 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
570 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 571
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572JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
573 timeout value per server.
574
2ad78978
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575JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
576 now have the list separator specified.
577
8a512ed5 578JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 579 option values.
8a512ed5 580
82c0c8ea 581JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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582 under OpenSSL.
583
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584JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
585
82c0c8ea
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586JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
587 rather than the verbs used.
588
b980ed83
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589JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
590 from 255 to 1024 chars.
591
6c9ed72e
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592JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
593
cfab9d68 594HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 595 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 596
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597JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
598 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
599
fd4c285c
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600HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
601 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
602
4c04137d 603JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 604
d2a2c69b
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605JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
606
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607JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
608 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 609 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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610 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
611
1f12df4d
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612JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
613
1f155f8e
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614JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
615 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
616
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617JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
618 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
619
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620JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
621
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622JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
623
7137ca4b
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624JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
625
dcb1095c
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626JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
627 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
628
2f460950
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629JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
630 added for tls authenticator.
631
2f680c0c
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632HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
633
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638TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
639 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
640 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
641 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
642 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
643 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
644 the script parsing/test process like normal.
645
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646TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
647 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
648 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
649 function when detected.
650
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651JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
652 cause callback expansion.
653
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654TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
655 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
656 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
657 instead of bool when processing it.
658
0f06b4f2 659JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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660 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
661
be36e572
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662JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
663
ac4ef9bd
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664JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
665
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666TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
667
c713ca4b
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668TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
669 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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671JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
672 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
673 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
674 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 675 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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676 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
677
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678JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
679 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
680 exceeded it.
681
a7fec7a7
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682JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
683 version 3.3.6 or later.
684
4c04137d 685JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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686 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
687 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 688 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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689 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
690 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
691 option is defined.
774ef2d7 692
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693TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
694 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
695
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696JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
697 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
698 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
699 matches.
700
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701JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
702 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
703 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
704
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705JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
706 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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707
708JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
709 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
710 syntax errors.
711
3394b36a 712JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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713
714JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
715 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
716
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717TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
718 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
719 tarball.
720
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721JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
722
4c04137d 723JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
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724 Bug 1561.
725
726JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
727 output list separator was used.
728
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732TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
733 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
734 return.
1f0ebb98 735
a612424f 736JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 737 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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738
739JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
740
741TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 742 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 743
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747
748TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
749
750 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
751 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
752 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
753 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
754 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
755 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
756
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757TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
758 utilities have not been installed.
759
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760JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
761 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
762
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763TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
764 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
765
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766TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
767 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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768 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
769 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 770
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771JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
772
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773TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
774 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
775
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776PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
777 not dns_use_dnssec.
778
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779JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
780
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781TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
782 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
783 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
784
8ddef691 785TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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786 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
787 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
788 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
789 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 790 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 791
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792JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
793
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794JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
795 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
796
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797JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
798 failed delivery.
799
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800JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
801
511a6c14 802JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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803
804JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
805 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 806
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807JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
808 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
809
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810TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
811
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812JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
813
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814JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
815 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
816
817 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
818 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
819 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
820
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821TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
822 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
823 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
824 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 825
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826JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
827
8c51eead 828JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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829 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
830 lookup).
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832TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
833 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
834 Schlichting.
35aba663 835
fd3b6a4a 836JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 837 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 838
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839TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
840 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
841
2b4a568d
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842JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
843
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844TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
845 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
846 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
847
9d1c15ef
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848JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
849 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
850
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851JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
852 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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853 hosts_request_ocsp.
854
ed3bba5f 855JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 856 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 857 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 858
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859JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
860
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861TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
862 Christian Aistleitner.
863
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864JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
865
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866TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
867 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
868
00bff6f6
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869JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
870 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
871
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872JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
873 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
874
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875TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
876 support and error reporting did not work properly.
877
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878TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
879 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
880
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881TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
882 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
883 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
884
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885JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
886
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887PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
888 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
889 Jasper Wallace.
890
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891JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
892
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893TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
894 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
895 CVE-2014-2972
896
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901PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
902
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903PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
904 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
905
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906PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
907 by GnuTLS.
908
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909PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
910 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
911 routines.
912
13363eba 913PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 914
66645890 915PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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916 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
917 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
918 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
919 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 920
a3fb9793 921PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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922 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
923 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
924 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 925 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 926 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 927
d27f98fe 928TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 929
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930TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
931
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932TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
933 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
934
ae0e32ee 935TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 936 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 937 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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939TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
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941TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
942
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943TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
944 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
945
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946JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
947
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948JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
949
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950PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
951
d7148a07
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952NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
953 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 954
585121e2 955JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 956
2519e60d
TL
957PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
958 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
959 function.
a5f239e4 960
13d08c90
PP
961PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
962 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
963
bef3ea7f
JH
964JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
965 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
966 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 967
846726c5
JH
968JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
969
3a796370
JH
970JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
971
ea722490 972JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
973 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
974
b1b05573
JH
975JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
976 Bugzilla 884.
977
362145b5
JH
978JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
979 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
980
3c0a92dc
JH
981JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
982 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
983
6d7c6175
PP
984PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
985 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 986 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 987
6f123593
JH
988JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
989 authenticators.
990
c8e2fc1e
JH
991JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
992 for control.
993
005ac57f
PP
994PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
995
3f1df0e3
PP
996PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
997 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
998 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
999 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1000
67bd1ab3
TF
1001TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1002
1003 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1004 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1005 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1006 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1007 the retry rules.
1008
1009 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1010 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1011 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1012
1013 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1014 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1015 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1016 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1017
1ddeb334
TF
1018 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1019 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1020 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1021 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1022 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1023 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1024 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1025
1026 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1027 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1028
326cdc37
TF
1029TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1030
1031 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1032
1033 Resent-From: f
1034
1035 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1036 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1037 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1038 username as equal to the username.
1039
1040 This change corrects that bug.
1041
f62514b3
GF
1042GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1043 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1044 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1045
eb505532
TF
1046TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1047
14c7b357
PP
1048PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1049 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1050 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1051 NULL dereference and crash.
1052
94eaf700
PP
1053JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1054
6f5a440a
PP
1055PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1056 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1057 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1058
514ee161
SC
1059SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1060
fd98a5c6
JH
1061JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1062 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1063 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1064 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1065 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1066 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1067 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1068 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1069 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1070 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1071 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1072
035c7f1e
PP
1073PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1074 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1075
ff284120
PP
1076PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1077 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1078 Bugzilla 880.
1079
26e72755
PP
1080PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1081 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1082 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1083 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1084 an empty string is now equivalent.
1085
0fbd9bff
PP
1086PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1087 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1088 not performing validation itself.
1089
700d22f3
PP
1090PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1091 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1092
fcc8e047
JH
1093JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1094 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1095
4c04137d 1096TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1097
8c020188
PP
1098PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1099 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1100 other false fix of the same issue.
1101 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1102 Bugzilla 1363.
1103
d13cdd30
PP
1104PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1105 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1106
e2fbf4a2
PP
1107PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1108 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1109 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1110
f4c1088b
PP
1111PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1112 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1113 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1114
c5c2182f
PP
1115TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1116
73431ca9
JH
1117JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1118
2d07a215
TL
1119TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1120 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1121
a30a8861
TL
1122TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1123 Alexander Miroch.
1124
33382dd9
TL
1125TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1126 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1127 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1128 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1129 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1130
046172e6
TL
1131TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1132 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1133
581d7bee 1134TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1135 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1136 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1137
1138TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1139 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1140 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1141 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1142
237b2cf2
TL
1143TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1144
9fc5a352
TL
1145TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1146 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1147 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1148
b10e4ec2
TL
1149TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1150
e2cebd74
TL
1151TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1152 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1153 interaction.
1154
1155TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1156 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1157
2519e60d
TL
1158TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1159 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1160
e78e6ecf 1161
4263f395
PP
1162Exim version 4.80.1
1163-------------------
1164
1165PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1166 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1167 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1168
ea722490 1169
b1770b6e 1170Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1171-----------------
1172
1173PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1174 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1175 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1176
23c7e742
NM
1177NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1178
b322aac8
NM
1179NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1180 improved.
1181
4a891427
NM
1182NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1183
c1e794ba 1184PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1185
97753960
PP
1186PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1187
1188PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1189 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1190
df6303fa
PP
1191PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1192 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1193
7e6a8985
PP
1194PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1195 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1196
f1e05cc7 1197PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1198 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1199 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1200
4c287009
PP
1201PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1202
b98bb9ac
PP
1203PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1204 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1205
4a6a987a
PP
1206PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1207
c45dd180 1208PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1209
7db8d074
PP
1210PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1211 non-compliant senders.
1212 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1213
eae0036b 1214NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1215 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1216 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1217
dec5017e
PP
1218PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1219 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1220 in spool file corruption.
1221
c80c5570
PP
1222PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1223 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1224 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1225 "Got SSL error 2".
1226
076b11e2
PP
1227TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1228 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1229 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1230
5407bfff
JH
1231JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1232 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1233
9e45c72b
PP
1234JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1235
e74376d8
PP
1236PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1237 diagnostics.
1238 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1239
4c04137d 1240PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1241 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1242 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1243
7be682ca
PP
1244PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1245 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1246 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1247 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1248
ef840681
PP
1249PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1250 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1251
5bfb4cdf
PP
1252PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1253 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1254 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1255 resolver implementation change.
1256
c6e95d22
PP
1257PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1258 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1259
9cbad13b
PP
1260PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1261
9ee44efb
PP
1262PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1263
6a6084f8
PP
1264PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1265 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1266
12dd53c7
PP
1267PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1268 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1269
9e45c72b 1270JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1271 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1272
17c76198
PP
1273PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1274 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1275 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1276 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1277 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1278
53947857 1279PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1280
eae0036b 1281PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1282 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1283 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1284
9e45c72b 1285JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1286
7390e768
PP
1287PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1288 read-only, out of scope).
1289 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1290
08488c86
PP
1291PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1292 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1293 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1294 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1295
6475bd82
PP
1296PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1297
81f91683
PP
1298PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1299 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1300 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1301 real issues in debug logging.
1302
5779e6aa
PP
1303PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1304 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1305
3375e053
PP
1306PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1307 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1308 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1309
1310PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1311 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1312 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1313 problems.
3375e053 1314
9d26b8c0
PP
1315PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1316 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1317
57eb9e91 1318PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1319 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1320 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1321 needs to override this, it can.
1322
16880d1a
PP
1323PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1324 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1325 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1326
a799883d
PP
1327PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1328 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1329 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1330 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1331
3ecab157 1332PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1333
0599f9cf 1334
867fcbf5
PP
1335Exim version 4.77
1336-----------------
1337
1338PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1339 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1340
f1a29782
TF
1341TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1342
ab42bd23
TK
1343TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1344 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1345
0ca0cf52
TF
1346TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1347 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1348
921b12ca
TF
1349TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1350 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1351 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1352
1353 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1354 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1355 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1356 not safe for signals.
1357
1358 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1359 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1360 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1361 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1362 exiwhat.
1363
c99ce5c9
TF
1364TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1365
1366 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1367 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1368 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1369 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1370 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1371
1372 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1373 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1374 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1375 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1376 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1377 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1378
1379 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1380 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1381 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1382 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1383
1384 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1385 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1386 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1387 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1388
1389 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1390 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1391 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1392 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1393 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1394 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1395 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1396 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1397 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1398
1399 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1400 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1401 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1402 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1403
1404 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1405 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1406 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1407 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1408 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1409 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1410 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1411 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1412 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1413 details in the main documentation.
1414
3634fc25
TF
1415TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1416
792e8a19
TF
1417TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1418
5901f0ab
TF
1419TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1420 repository when doing development or release builds.
1421
7f2a2a43
PP
1422PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1423 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1424
061b7ebd
PP
1425PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1426 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1427 Bugzilla 97.
1428
e12f8c32
PP
1429PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1430
9e949f00 1431PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1432 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1433
1434PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1435 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1436
555ae6af 1437PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1438 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1439
1440PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1441 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1442
6f7fe114
PP
1443PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1444 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1445
c566dd90
PP
1446PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1447 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1448 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1449 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1450
d6cc7c78 1451PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1452 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1453 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1454
0d0e4455
PP
1455PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1456
3399bb60 1457PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1458
1459PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1460 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1461
0ca0cf52 1462
10906672
PP
1463Exim version 4.76
1464-----------------
1465
1466PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1467
754a0503
PP
1468PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1469 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1470
c0c7b2da
PP
1471PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1472
e97d1f08
PP
1473PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1474
084c1d8c
PP
1475PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1476 Bugzilla 1098.
1477
4e7ee012
PP
1478PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1479 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1480
c8d52a00
PP
1481TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1482 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1483
54e7ce4a
PP
1484PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1485 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1486
5ee6f336
PP
1487PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1488 Bugzilla 1104.
1489
c8d52a00 1490TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1491 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1492
1493TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1494 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1495 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1496 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1497
1498PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1499 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1500
10906672 1501
aa097c4c
NM
1502Exim version 4.75
1503-----------------
1504
4c04137d 1505NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1506 Bugzilla 1073
1507
7f3d9eff
TF
1508TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1509 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1510 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1511
159f52d2
TF
1512TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1513 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1514
0cc9542a
PP
1515PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1516 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1517 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1518
f7274286
PP
1519PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1520 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1521
7b797365
PP
1522PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1523 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1524
caacae52
NM
1525NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1526 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1527
09dcaba9
NM
1528NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1529 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1530
bc19a55b
PP
1531PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1532 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1533
bd4c9759
NM
1534NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1535 Fixes bug 943.
1536
b72aab72
PP
1537PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1538 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1539
2fe76745
PP
1540PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1541 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1542
76aa570c
PP
1543PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1544 SQL string expansion failure details.
1545 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1546
f1e5fef5
PP
1547PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1548 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1549
4d805ee9
PP
1550PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1551 extern declarations in function scope.
1552 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1553
cd59ab18
PP
1554PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1555 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1556 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1557 a kernel bug).
1558
332f5cf3
PP
1559PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1560 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1561
29cfeb94
PP
1562PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1563 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1564
660242ad
PP
1565PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1566 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1567
bc4bc4c5
PP
1568PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1569 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1570
2e64baa9
NM
1571NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1572 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1573 Dennis Davis.
1574
4c04137d 1575PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 1576
6bac1a9a
PP
1577PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1578
552193f0
NM
1579NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1580 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1581
1b587e48
TF
1582TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1583 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1584
aa097c4c 1585
8c07b69f
TF
1586Exim version 4.74
1587-----------------
1588
1589TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1590 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1591
c0ea85ab
TF
1592TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1593 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1594
0761d44e
TF
1595TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1596
0a349494
PP
1597DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1598 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1599 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1600
1601PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1602 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1603 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1604
fea24b2e
PP
1605PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1606 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1607 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1608 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1609
6545de78
PP
1610PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1611 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1612 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1613 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1614
1670ef10
PP
1615PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1616 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1617 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1618 arbitrary files.
1619
c0886197
PP
1620PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1621 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1622
b7487bce
PP
1623PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1624 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1625 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1626 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1627 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1628
8c07b69f 1629
97fd1e48 1630Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1631-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1632
1633PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1634 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1635 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1636
6901c596
PP
1637PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1638 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1639
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1640JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1641
77bb000f
PP
1642PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1643
a29e5231
PP
1644PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1645
ec5a0394 1646PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1647
55c75993
PP
1648PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1649
453a6645 1650PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1651 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1652 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1653 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1654
8544e77a
PP
1655PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1656 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1657 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1658 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1659 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1660
83e029d5
PP
1661PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1662
ed7f7860
PP
1663PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1664
7d9f747b
PP
1665PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1666
4b2241d2
PP
1667PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1668
10385c15
PP
1669PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1670
dbc4b90d
PP
1671PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1672
532be449
PP
1673PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1674
6a8de854 1675PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1676 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1677 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1678
5dc43717
JJ
1679JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1680
1681JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1682 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1683
3346ab01
PP
1684PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1685 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1686
491fab4c
PP
1687PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1688 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1689 Notification from John Horne.
1690
13eb9497
PP
1691PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1692 compatible.
1693
1694PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1695 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1696 it normally works.
1697
7f36d675
DW
1698DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1699 access.
1700
c1d94452
DW
1701DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1702 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1703 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1704
e2f5dc15
DW
1705DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1706 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1707 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1708 configuration file.
1709
cd25e41d
DW
1710DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1711 option (effectively making it always true).
1712
261dc43e
DW
1713DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1714 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1715
fa32850b
DW
1716DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1717 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1718
79d4bc3d
PP
1719PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1720 run-time user, instead of root.
1721
43236f35 1722PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1723 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1724
fb08281f
DW
1725DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1726 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1727 arguments.
3346ab01 1728
74935b98
DW
1729DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1730 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1731 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1732
90b6341f
DW
1733DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1734
57730b52
ML
1735NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1736
66581d1e 1737
465e92cf
JJ
1738Exim version 4.72
1739-----------------
1740
453a6645
PP
1741JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1742 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1743 typos
465e92cf 1744
453a6645
PP
1745JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1746 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1747 (Finput)
edae0343 1748
9bd3e22c
NM
1749NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1750 Patch from Alain Williams
1751
bb576ff7
NM
1752NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1753
5a1a5845
NM
1754NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1755 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1756
981a9fad
NM
1757NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1758 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1759
7fc497ee
NM
1760NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1761
1a41defa
JJ
1762JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1763
a466095c 1764NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1765 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1766
94a6bd0b
NM
1767TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1768
1769TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1770
1771MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1772 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1773 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1774
c1b141a8
NM
1775NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1776 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1777
b26eacf1 1778NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1779 Patch by Simon Arlott
1780
179c5980 1781PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1782 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1783
9bd3e22c 1784
7c6d71af
NM
1785Exim version 4.71
1786-----------------
1787
7d9f747b 1788TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1789
f013fb92
NM
1790NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1791
0eb8eedd
NM
1792NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1793
663ee6d9
NM
1794NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1795
177ebd9b
NM
1796NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1797
7c6d71af 1798
210f147e
NM
1799Exim version 4.70
1800-----------------
1801
cdd3bb85 1802TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1803 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1804
1805TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1806 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1807 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1808
1809TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1810 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1811 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1812
1813TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1814 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1815
210f147e
NM
1816NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1817 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1818 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1819 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1820
deafd5b3
NM
1821NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1822 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1823 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1824
089793a4
TF
1825TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1826
5f16ca82
TF
1827TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1828
dae9d94e 1829NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1830 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1831
7d9f747b 1832NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1833
06864c44
TF
1834TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1835 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1836 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1837 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1838
65a7d8c3 1839NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1840 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1841
23510047 1842TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1843
7d9f747b 1844NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1845
7d8eec3a 1846NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1847 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1848
89dec7b6
TF
1849TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1850 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1851
a99de90c
TF
1852TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1853 that they are available at delivery time.
1854
e2803e40
TF
1855TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1856
7199e1ee
TF
1857TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1858 incoming_port log selectors.
1859
e276e04b
TF
1860TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1861 setting expands to an empty string.
1862
ce552449 1863NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1864 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1865
e765a0f1 1866NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1867 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1868
4f054c63 1869NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1870 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1871
7d9f747b
PP
1872NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1873 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1874
7d9f747b
PP
1875NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1876 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1877
b52bc06e 1878NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1879 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1880
447de4b0
NM
1881NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1882
4c69d561 1883NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1884 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1885
d5c39246 1886NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1887 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1888
0b23848a
TK
1889TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1890
8f3414a1 1891NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1892 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1893
fb6f955d
NM
1894NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1895
1896NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1897
7d9f747b
PP
1898NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1899 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1900
7d9f747b
PP
1901NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1902 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1903
7d9f747b
PP
1904NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1905 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1906
7d9f747b
PP
1907NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1908 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1909
7d9f747b
PP
1910NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1911 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1912
7d9f747b
PP
1913NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1914 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1915
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1916NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1917 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1918
7d9f747b 1919NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1920 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1921
7d9f747b 1922NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1923
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1924NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1925 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1926
7d9f747b 1927NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1928
7d9f747b 1929NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1930
7d9f747b 1931NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1932
7d9f747b 1933NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1934
17792b53 1935NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1936 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1937
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1938NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1939 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1940
91576cec 1941NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1942 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1943
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1944NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1945 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1946
7d9f747b 1947NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1948
7d9f747b 1949NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1950
7d9f747b 1951NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1952
7d9f747b 1953NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1954
deafd5b3 1955
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NM
1956Exim version 4.69
1957-----------------
1958
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1959TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1960 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1961 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1962
1963 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1964 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1965 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1966 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1967 build errors in sieve.c.
1968
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NM
1969NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1970 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1971 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1972
f13cddcb
SC
1973SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1974
7d9f747b 1975NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1976
7d9f747b 1977NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1978
7d9f747b 1979NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1980
1981
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1982Exim version 4.68
1983-----------------
1984
1985PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1986
6a3bceb1
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1987PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1988 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1989 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1990 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1991 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1992 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1993 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1994 for iplsearch lookups.
1995
1996 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1997 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1998 previously such lookups could never work.
1999
4c04137d 2000 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
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2001 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2002 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2003
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TK
2004TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2005 version.
2006
0806a9c5
MH
2007MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2008 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2009 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2010 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2011 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2012 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2013
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TK
2014TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2015 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2016
0f2cbd1b
MH
2017MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2018 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2019 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2020 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2021 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2022 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2023
2b85bce7
PH
2024PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2025 local_scan API.
2026
93655c46
PH
2027PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2028
6c512171
PH
2029PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2030 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2031 encrypted.
2032
2033PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2034 by clients under certain conditions.
2035
aa6dc513
PH
2036PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2037 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2038
a96603a0
PH
2039PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2040
8f240103
PH
2041PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2042 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2043
2044PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2045
d677b2f2
PH
2046PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2047
d52120f2
PH
2048PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2049
64f2600a
PH
2050PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2051 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2052
8669f003
PH
2053PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2054
a4dc33a8
PH
2055PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2056 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2057
d6a60c0f
PH
2058PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2059
8f128379
PH
2060PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2061
8932dffe
PH
2062PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2063 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2064 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2065 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2066
ddea74fa 2067PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2068 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2069 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2070
ddea74fa 2071PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2072 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2073
ddea74fa
PH
2074PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2075
ce9f225c
PH
2076PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2077
19897d52
PH
2078PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2079
bc64a74d
PH
2080PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2081 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2082 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2083
eb4c0de6 2084
b4ed4da0
PH
2085Exim version 4.67
2086-----------------
2087
22ad45c9
MH
2088MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2089 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2090 Jan Srzednicki.
2091
b4ed4da0
PH
2092PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2093 issue a MAIL command.
2094
431b7361
PH
2095PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2096
2097 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2098
2099 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2100 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2101 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2102 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2103 item. This has been fixed.
2104
2105PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2106 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2107
83da1223
PH
2108PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2109 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2110
54fc8428
PH
2111PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2112 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2113 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2114
34c5e8dd
SC
2115SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2116
bbe15da8
PH
2117PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2118 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2119 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2120 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2121 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2122
0e8a9471
MH
2123MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2124 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2125 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2126
f0872424
PH
2127PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2128 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2129 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2130 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2131
b01dd148
PH
2132PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2133
6bf342e1
PH
2134PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2135
273f34d0
PH
2136PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2137 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2138 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2139 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2140 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2141
cf8b11a5
PH
2142PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2143
41c7c167
PH
2144PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2145 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2146 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2147 values).
2148
9c57cbc0
PH
2149PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2150
f3f065bb
PH
2151PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2152
047bdd8c
PH
2153PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2154
0ce9abe6
PH
2155PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2156
0e22dfd1
PH
2157PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2158
4c590bd1
PH
2159PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2160 no_callout_flush is set.
2161
09945f1e
PH
2162PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2163 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2164 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2165 fixed.
2166
c51b8e75
PH
2167PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2168
e28326d8 2169PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2170 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2171 other ACL rejections are.
2172
75b1493f
PH
2173PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2174 with slight modification.
2175
7c5214ec
PH
2176PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2177 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2178
4311097e
PH
2179PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2180 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2181 connection.
2182
29f89cad
PH
2183PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2184 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2185
5e687460
SC
2186SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2187
c3611384
PH
2188PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2189 expansion side effects.
2190
5a11a7b4
PH
2191PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2192 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2193 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2194 be the same.
2195
0e20aff9
MH
2196MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2197 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2198 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2199
ca86f471
PH
2200PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2201 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2202 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2203 were accidentally chopped off.
2204
a14e5636
PH
2205PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2206 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2207 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2208 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2209 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2210 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2211 pipelining has not been advertised.
2212
ec95d1a6
PH
2213PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2214
42855d71
PH
2215PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2216 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2217 This has been fixed.
2218
57c2c631
PH
2219PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2220 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2221 reported on Solaris.
2222
58c01c94
PH
2223PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2224 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2225 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2226 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2227 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2228 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2229 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2230
dee5a20a
PH
2231PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2232 cpus.
2233
d2ee6114
PH
2234PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2235
b2d5182b
PH
2236PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2237
79749a79
PH
2238PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2239 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2240 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2241 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2242 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2243 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2244
c456d9bb
PH
2245PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2246 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2247 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2248 host_all_ignored option.
2249
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PH
2250PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2251 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2252 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2253 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2254 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2255 is what is supposed to happen).
2256
ebeaf996
PH
2257PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2258 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2259 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2260 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2261 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2262 uses the Exim user.
2263
2679d413
PH
2264PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2265 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2266 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2267 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2268 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2269 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2270 users.
2271
84024b72
PH
2272PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2273
8005d38e
SC
2274SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2275 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2276 (Jez Hancock).
2277 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2278 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2279
3298c6c6
SC
2280SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2281
a43a27c5
PH
2282PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2283
58eb016e 2284PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
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PH
2285 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2286 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2287 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2288 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2289 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2290 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2291 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2292 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2293 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2294 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2295
b43a74ea
PH
2296PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2297 advertised in response to EHLO.
2298
b4ed4da0 2299
5dd1517f
PH
2300Exim version 4.66
2301-----------------
2302
2303PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2304 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2305
2306 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2307 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2308
2309 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2310 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2311 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2312
2313 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2314 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2315 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2316 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2317 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2318
2319
93cfa765
TK
2320Exim version 4.65
2321-----------------
2322
2323TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2324 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2325 versions. (#438)
2326
d6066548
MH
2327MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2328 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2329 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2330
4362ff0d
PH
2331PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2332 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2333 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2334 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2335 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2336 rather than extend the field.
2337
93cfa765 2338
944e9e9c
TF
2339Exim version 4.64
2340-----------------
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TK
2342TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2343 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2344 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2345 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2346 these files.
2347
2348TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2349 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2350 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2351
2352TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2353 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2354 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2355
2356TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2357 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2358 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2359 in the field name.
2360
2b1c6e3a
PH
2361PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2362 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2363 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2364 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2365 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2366 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2367 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2368 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2369 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2370 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2371 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2372
1f872c80
PH
2373PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2374 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2375
2376PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2377 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2378 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2379 ignores EPIPE as well.
2380
d203e649
PH
2381PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2382 (quoted-printable decoding).
2383
cc2ed8f7 2384PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2385 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2386
ddfcd446
PH
2387PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2388
d45b1de8
PH
2389PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2390
2391PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2392
38a0a95f 2393PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2394 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2395
a2405d83
JJ
2396JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2397 in 4.64-PH/09.
2398
2399JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2400 miscellaneous code fixes
2401
6ea85e9a
PH
2402PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2403 rejections.
2404
26da7e20
PH
2405PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2406 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2407 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2408 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2409 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2410 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2411 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2412 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2413
14aa5a05 2414PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2415 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2416 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2417 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2418 function.
2419 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2420 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2421 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2422 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2423 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2424 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2425 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2426 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2427 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2428
ff75a1f7
PH
2429PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2430 decoding.
2431
e6f6568e
PH
2432PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2433 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2434 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2435 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2436 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2437 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2438 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2439 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2440
d6f6e0dc
PH
2441PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2442 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2443 list.
2444
322050c2
PH
2445PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2446 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2447 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2448 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2449 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2450 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2451 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2452 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2453 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2454 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2455 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2456 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2457 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2458
08955dd3
PH
2459PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2460 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2461 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2462 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2463 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2464 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2465 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2466
1eccaa59
PH
2467PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2468 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2469 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2470 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2471 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2472 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2473 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2474 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2475 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2476 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2477
602e59e5
PH
2478PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2479 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2480 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2481 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2482 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2483
411ef850
PH
2484PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2485 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2486 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2487 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2488 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2489 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2490 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2491
7befa435
PH
2492PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2493 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2494 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2495 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2496 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2497 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2498 been verified.
2499
48da4259 2500PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2501 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2502 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2503 and authorization.)
2504
48da4259
PH
2505PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2506 if any retry times were supplied.
2507
d1d5595c
PH
2508PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2509 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2510 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2511
0ef732d9
PH
2512PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2513
328895cc
PH
2514PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2515
fd700877
PH
2516PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2517 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2518 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2519 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2520 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2521 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2522
8dce1a6f
PH
2523PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2524 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2525
17af4a17
PH
2526PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2527 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2528 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2529
2530PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2531 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2532 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2533 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2534 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2535 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2536 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2537 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2538 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2539
2540 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2541 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2542 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2543 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2544 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2545 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2546 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2547 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2548 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2549
2550 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2551 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2552 hammering the server.
2553
c1114884
PH
2554PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2555 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2556
7a0743eb
PH
2557PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2558
0d85fa3f
PH
2559PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2560 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2561 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2562
1bf43b78
PH
2563PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2564 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2565 one case where this was not true.
2566
520de300
PH
2567PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2568 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2569 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2570 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2571 fails.
2572
48c7f9e2
PH
2573PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2574 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2575 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2576 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 2577 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
2578 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2579 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2580 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2581 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2582 smtp transport.
2583
99ea1c86
PH
2584PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2585 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2586 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2587 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2588
a2042e78
PH
2589PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2590 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2591
4fbcfc2e
PH
2592PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2593 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2594 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2595
aa41d2de
PH
2596PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2597
af561417
PH
2598PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2599
3cc66b45
PH
2600PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2601
194cc0e4
PH
2602PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2603 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2604 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2605 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2606
a401ddaa
PH
2607PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2608 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2609
4e88a19f
PH
2610PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2611 be meaningful with "accept".
2612
d7d7b289
SC
2613SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2614 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2615
2616SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2617 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2618 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2619
2620SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2621 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2622 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2623 there is data to show.
2624 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2625
2626SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2627 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2628 as well as the number of messages.
2629
2630SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2631 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2632 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2633
2634SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2635 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2636 have a flag are now skipped.
2637
2638SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2639 Added the -emptyok flag.
2640
2641SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2642 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2643
0ea2a468
JJ
2644JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2645 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 2646 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
2647
2648JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2649 match 4.64-PH/13
2650
2651JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2652 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2653
2654JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2655
2656JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2657 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2658
8a10f5a4
PH
2659PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2660
30e18802
PH
2661PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2662 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2663 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2664 contravention of the specifications.
2665
55728a4f
PH
2666PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2667 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2668 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2669
d7837193
PH
2670PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2671 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2672 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2673
87054a31
PH
2674PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2675
ea2c01d2
MH
2676MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2677 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2678 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2679 some point in the past.
2680
e4fa6968
PH
2681PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2682 transport during callout processing was broken.
2683
56f5d9bd
PH
2684PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2685 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2686
922e1c28
PH
2687PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2688 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2689
21eb6e72
PH
2690PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2691 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2692
a0540757
PH
2693PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2694
944e9e9c 2695
478be7b0
SC
2696Exim version 4.63
2697-----------------
2698
2699SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2700 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2701
2702SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2703 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2704 there is data to show.
2705 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2706
2707SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2708 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2709
2b965a65
TF
2710TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2711 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2712
45b91596
PH
2713TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2714 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2715
c59f5781
TF
2716TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2717 submissions from trusted users.
2718
90fc3069
TF
2719TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2720 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2721
6083aca0
TF
2722TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2723 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2724 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2725 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2726 there is now a framework to start from.
2727
765b530f
PH
2728PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2729 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2730 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2731
4e167a8c
PH
2732PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2733
4608d683
PH
2734PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2735
b8dc3e4a
PH
2736PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2737
5418e93b
PH
2738PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2739 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2740 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2741
b4a9bda2
PH
2742PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2743 libradius.
2744
45b91596
PH
2745PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2746 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2747 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2748
5547e2c5
PH
2749PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2750 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2751 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2752 its arguments.
2753
dbcef0ea
PH
2754PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2755 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2756 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2757 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2758 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2759
25257489
PH
2760PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2761 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2762
c816d124
PH
2763PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2764
a9ccd69a
PH
2765PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2766 operations in malware.c.
2767
75fa1910
PH
2768PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2769 signatures.
2770
a7d7aa58
PH
2771PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2772 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2773 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2774 all.
2775
42119b09
PH
2776PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2777 statements to "add_header".
2778
41609df5
PH
2779PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2780 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2781
a5bd321b
PH
2782PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2783 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2784 latter.
2785
e85a7ad5 2786PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2787 so that it is now:
2788
e85a7ad5
PH
2789 ${if or { \
2790 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2791 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2792 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2793 }{no}{yes}}
2794
e85a7ad5
PH
2795 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2796 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2797
d8fe1c03
PH
2798PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2799 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2800
16282d2b
PH
2801PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2802 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2803 any possible encoding problems.
2804
35d40a98
PH
2805PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2806 but not after initializing Perl.
2807
034d99ab
PH
2808PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2809 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2810 apparently, which is not desirable.
2811
6ec97b1b
PH
2812PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2813 queries.
2814
e22ca4ac
JJ
2815JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2816 --not options
2817
2818JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2819
33d73e3b
PH
2820PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2821 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2822 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2823 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2824
9ecb03f3
PH
2825PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2826 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2827 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2828
084efe8d
PH
2829PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2830 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2831 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2832 0.12.
2833
366fc9f0
PH
2834PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2835 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2836 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2837 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2838 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2839
c59f5781 2840
c887c79e
TF
2841Exim version 4.62
2842-----------------
2843
2844TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2845 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2846
1cce3af8
PH
2847PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2848 patch).
2849
afb3eaaf
PH
2850PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2851 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2852 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2853 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2854 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2855 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2856 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2857 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2858 451 error is used.
2859
e173618b
PH
2860PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2861
dd16e114
PH
2862PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2863 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2864 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2865
f7fd3850
PH
2866PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2867 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2868 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2869 odd errors.
2870
d87df92c
PH
2871PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2872 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2873
7e9f683d
PH
2874PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2875 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2876 option (which defaults to 0600).
2877
bfad5236
PH
2878PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2879
01c490df
PH
2880PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2881 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2882 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2883 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2884 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2885 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2886 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2887
d6629cdc
PH
2888PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2889
1cce3af8 2890
214e2000
PH
2891Exim version 4.61
2892-----------------
2893
2894PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2895 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2896 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2897 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2898 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2899 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2900 addresses as local.
2901
f9daeae0
PH
2902PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2903 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2904
7e66e54d
PH
2905PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2906
c8ea1597
PH
2907PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2908 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2909 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2910 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2911 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2912 grumble.
2913
911f6fde
PH
2914PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2915 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2916
47ca6d6c
PH
2917PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2918 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2919 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2920 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2921 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2922
ed0e9820
PH
2923PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2924 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2925 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2926 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2927
eff37e47
PH
2928PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2929 be the same on different OS.
2930
1921d2ea
PH
2931PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2932 testing.
2933
b3f69ca8
JJ
2934JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2935 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2936
2937JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2938 in 4.61-PH/06
2939
424a1c63
PH
2940PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2941 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2942 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2943 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2944 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2945 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2946 bounce message.
2947
7a100415
PH
2948PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2949 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2950 when Exim was called.
2951
19b9dc85
PH
2952PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2953 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2954
309bd837
PH
2955PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2956 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2957 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2958 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2959
59e82a2a
PH
2960PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2961 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2962 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2963 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2964 changes:
2965
2966 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2967 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 2968 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
2969
2970 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2971 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2972 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2973
9edc04ce
PH
2974PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2975 feature).
2976
1349e1e5
PH
2977PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2978 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2979 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2980 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2981 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2982 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2983 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2984 values from the SRV records were lost.
2985
ea49d0e1
PH
2986PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2987 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2988 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2989
064a94c9
PH
2990PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2991 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2992 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2993
727071f8
PH
2994PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2995 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2996 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2997 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2998 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2999 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3000 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3001 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3002 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3003 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3004
f78eb7c6
PH
3005PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3006 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3007 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3008
21c28500
PH
3009PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3010 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3011
3012PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3013 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3014 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3015 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3016 is given.
3017
1688f43b
PH
3018PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3019 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3020 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3021
3022PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3023 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3024 PH/23 above applies.
3025
9675b384
PH
3026PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3027 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3028 (for which there is an explicit test).
3029
6a3f1455
PH
3030PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3031
dac79d3e
PH
3032PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3033 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3034 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3035 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3036 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3037
5977a0b3
PH
3038PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3039 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3040 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3041 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3042
c91535f3
PH
3043PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3044 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3045 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3046
0d46a8c8
PH
3047PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3048
278c6e6c
PH
3049PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3050
2cbb4081
PH
3051PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3052 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3053 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3054
3eef829e
PH
3055PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3056 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3057 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3058 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3059 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3060
1ab95fa6
PH
3061PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3062 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3063 the message gets confusing).
3064
230205fc
PH
3065PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3066 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3067 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3068 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3069
75e0e026
PH
3070PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3071 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3072 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3073 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3074 same order.
3075
3076PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3077 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3078 the different processes.
3079
145396a6
PH
3080PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3081
3cd34f13
PH
3082PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3083
11121d3d
JJ
3084JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3085 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3086
3087JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3088 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3089
3090JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3091 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3092 messages matching specified criteria.
3093
8def5aaf
PH
3094PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3095
929ba01c
PH
3096PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3097 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3098
2632889e
PH
3099PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3100 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3101 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3102 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3103 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3104 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3105 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3106 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3107 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3108 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3109
944a9c55
PH
3110PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3111 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3112 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3113
4a23603b
PH
3114PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3115
4730f942
PH
3116PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3117 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3118 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3119 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3120 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3121 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3122 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3123 the variable.
3124
30dba1e6
PH
3125PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3126 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3127
382afc6b
PH
3128PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3129
a86229cf
PH
3130PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3131
50c99ba6
PH
3132PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3133
d35e429d
PH
3134PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3135 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3136 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3137 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3138 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3139 size of the count of files.
3140
f90d018c
PH
3141PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3142
75def545
PH
3143PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3144 used in LMTP mode:
3145
3146 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3147 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3148 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3149 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3150
3151 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3152 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3153 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3154
3155PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3156 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3157 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3158 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3159 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3160
c46782ef
PH
3161PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3162 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3163
71fafd95
PH
3164PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3165 will now be deprecated.
3166
2c5db4fd
PH
3167PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3168
9cf6b11a
JJ
3169JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3170 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3171 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3172
3173JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3174 with very large, slow to parse queues
3175
3176JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3177
3178JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3179
898d150f
PH
3180PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3181 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3182 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3183 SMTP output lines.
3184
46218253
PH
3185PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3186 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3187 Sieve code now uses this.
3188
e97957bc
PH
3189PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3190 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3191
81e509d7
PH
3192PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3193 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3194
3d240ff7
PH
3195PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3196
b37c4101
PH
3197PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3198 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3199 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3200 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3201 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3202
79378e0f
PH
3203PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3204 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3205 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3206 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3207
e49c7bb4
PH
3208PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3209
d114ec46
PH
3210PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3211
f3d7df6c
PH
3212PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3213 is preferred over IPv4.
3214
715ab376
PH
3215PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3216 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3217 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3218 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3219 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3220 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3221 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3222
6b31b150
PH
3223PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3224 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3225 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3226
3227PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3228
d515a917
PH
3229PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3230 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3231 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3232 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3233 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3234 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3235 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3236 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3237 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3238 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3239 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3240
9b8fadde
PH
3241PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3242 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3243 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3244
214e2000 3245
5de37277
PH
3246Exim version 4.60
3247-----------------
3248
cc38ddbf
PH
3249PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3250
3251 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3252 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3253
3254 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3255 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3256 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3257
72fdd6ae
PH
3258PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3259
3260 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3261 not a single digit.
3262
3263 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3264 string.
3265
3266 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3267 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3268 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3269 silly things.
3270
3271 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3272 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3273
3274 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3275 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3276
cb741023
PH
3277PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3278 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3279 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3280
f174f16e
PH
3281PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3282 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3283
c25242d7
PH
3284PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3285 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3286
3287 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3288
3289 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3290 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3291 this:
3292
3293 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3294
82c19f95
PH
3295PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3296 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3297 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3298 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3299 identical. For example:
3300
3301 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3302
3303 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3304 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3305 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3306
d7ffbc12
PH
3307PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3308 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3309 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3310 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3311
9f526266
PH
3312PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3313 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3314 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3315 message.
3316
87fcc8b9
PH
3317PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3318
3319 o fixes some comments
3320 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3321 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3322 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3323 and documents the missing references header update
3324
3325 and most important:
3326
3327 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3328 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3329 result)
3330
456682f5
PH
3331PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3332 Electronic Mail") by including:
3333
3334 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3335
3336 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3337 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3338 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3339 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3340 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3341
3342 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3343
3344 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3345
3346 The auto-replied keyword:
3347
3348 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3349 message by an automatic process,
3350
3351 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3352
3353 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3354 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3355
3356 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3357 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3358 other messages.
3359
3e46c1aa
PH
3360PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3361 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3362
49826d12
PH
3363PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3364
eba0c039
PH
3365PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3366 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3367 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3368
a0d6ba8a
PH
3369PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3370 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3371 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3372
f0917727
PH
3373PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3374 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3375 and treats the condition as false.
3376
096fee00
PH
3377PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3378
024bd3c2
PH
3379PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3380 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3381 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3382 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3383 not changing the active code.
3384
3385 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3386 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3387
3388 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3389 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3390
df199fec
PH
3391PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3392 (Bugzilla #53).
3393
d27f1df3
PH
3394PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3395 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3396 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3397 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3398 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3399 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3400 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3401 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3402 the text comparison.
3403
96776534
PH
3404PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3405 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3406 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3407 The same fix has been applied.
3408
5de37277 3409
9a799bc0
PH
3410Exim version 4.54
3411-----------------
3412
3413PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3414 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3415 It now does.
3416
99a4b039
PH
3417PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3418 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3419
3420PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3421
4b233853
PH
3422PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3423 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3424 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3425 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3426 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3427
8857ccfd
PH
3428TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3429 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3430 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3431 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3432 or /domain=).
3433
433a2980
PH
3434PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3435 testing suite.
3436
3e46c1aa 3437
9a799bc0 3438
e3a311ba
TK
3439Exim version 4.53
3440-----------------
3441
3442TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3443 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3444
13b685f9
PH
3445PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3446
395ff96d
PH
3447PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3448
5b68f6e4
PH
3449PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3450 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3451 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3452
1ab52c69
PH
3453PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3454 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3455 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3456
b07e6aa3
PH
3457PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3458 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3459 operating systems.
3460
254e032f
PH
3461PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3462 ${stat: expansion item.
3463
3af76a81
PH
3464PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3465 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3466
2548ba04
PH
3467PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3468 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3469 file for comments.
3470
b6c6011d
PH
3471PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3472
cf39cf57
PH
3473PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3474 setting.
3475
f1513293
PH
3476PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3477 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3478
727549a4
PH
3479TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3480
af46795e
PH
3481PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3482 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3483 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3484 the end of the subprocess.
3485
d7b47fd0
PH
3486PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3487 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3488 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3489 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3490 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3491
ee744174
JJ
3492JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3493
b582ab87
PH
3494TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3495
41a13e0a
PH
3496PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3497 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3498
f625cc5a
PH
3499PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3500
3501PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3502
21f7af35
PH
3503PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3504 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3505 HP-UX compiler.
3506
31480e42
PH
3507PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3508
2d280592
PH
3509PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3510 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3511 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3512
7cd1141b
PH
3513PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3514 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3515
3516PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3517 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3518
750af86e
PH
3519PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3520 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3521
3522 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3523 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3524
3525 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3526 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3527 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3528 contributed by a Radius user.
3529
3530PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3531 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3532
4304270b
TK
3533TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3534 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3535
750af86e
PH
3536PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3537 available.
3538
64ffc24f
PH
3539PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3540 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3541 received.
3542
5dd9625b
PH
3543PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3544 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3545 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3546 header lines when this was not necessary.
3547
5591031b
PH
3548PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3549
ba18e66a
PH
3550PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3551 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3552 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3553 exists".
3554
9cec981f
PH
3555PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3556 -bV or -d is used.
3557
aa2b5c79
PH
3558PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3559 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3560 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3561 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3562
48a53b7f
PH
3563PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3564
1c59d63b
PH
3565PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3566
671012da
TK
3567TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3568
1509d3a8
PH
3569PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3570
3571PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3572 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3573 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3574 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3575 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3576 settings.
3577
3578PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3579
2fe1a124
PH
3580PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3581 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3582 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3583 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3584 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3585 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3586 which is clearly wrong.
3587
8800895a
PH
3588PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3589
ccfdb010
PH
3590PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3591 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3592 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3593 subsequently added.
3594
1130bfb0
PH
3595PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3596 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3597
ebcb507f
PH
3598PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3599
c35e155c
PH
3600PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3601 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3602
95d1f782
PH
3603PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3604 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3605
fd6de02e
PH
3606PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3607 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3608
58de37c5
PH
3609PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3610 recipients, not senders.
3611
261cf466
TF
3612TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3613 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3614
3ee512ff
PH
3615PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3616
e08c430f
PH
3617PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3618
bef5a11f
PH
3619PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3620 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3621 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3622 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3623
7546de58
TF
3624TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3625
e5d5a95f
TF
3626TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3627 clock is set back in time.
3628
2e88a017
TF
3629TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3630 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3631
a5f65aa4
TF
3632TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3633 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3634
e7726cbf
PH
3635PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3636 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3637 (see PH/47 above).
3638
a7fdad5b
TF
3639TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3640 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3641 header rewrites.
3642
6af56900
PH
3643PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3644 type ("H").
3645
0925ede6
PH
3646PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3647
66afa403
TF
3648TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3649 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3650 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3651
0154e85a
TF
3652TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3653 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3654 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3655 helo verification defer as a failure.
3656
16f12c76
PH
3657PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3658 actual error message.
3659
bbe902f0 3660
e5a9dba6
PH
3661Exim version 4.52
3662-----------------
3663
3664TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3665
22c3b60b
PH
3666PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3667 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3668 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3669 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3670
06a9b4b5
PH
3671TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3672
c1ac6996
PH
3673PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3674 can still be requested.
3675
9c7a242c
PH
3676PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3677 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3678 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3679 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3680
87ba3f5f
PH
3681TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3682 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3683 circumstances, but probably never did.
3684
3685PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3686 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3687 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3688 in the header line.
3689
29aba418
TF
3690TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3691
fe0dab11
TF
3692TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3693 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3694
11d337a4
TK
3695TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3696
3697TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3698
415c8f3b
PH
3699PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3700 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3701 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 3702 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
3703 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3704 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3705
958541e9
PH
3706PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3707 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3708 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3709 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3710 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3711 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3712
c206415f
TK
3713TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3714 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3715
2a4be8f9
PH
3716PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3717 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3718
1cba11c5
SC
3719SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3720 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3721
4c04137d 3722SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
3723
3724SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3725
3726SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3727
3728SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3729
3730SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3731
3732SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3733
1005d00e
TK
3734TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3735
3736TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3737 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3738 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3739
3740TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3741 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3742 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3743 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3744
9b4768fa
PH
3745PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3746 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3747 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3748
3749PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3750 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3751 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3752 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3753
0d7eb84a
PH
3754PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3755 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3756 to be made).
3757
3758PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3759 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3760 should work with maildirs and everything.
3761
40727bee
TK
3762TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3763 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3764
554d2369
TF
3765TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3766 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3767
1f922db1
PH
3768PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3769 function for BDB 4.3.
3770
ef213c3b
PH
3771PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3772
8ac170f3
PH
3773PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3774 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3775 involved.
3776
b1c749bb
PH
3777PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3778 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3779 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3780 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3781 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3782 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3783
4aac9b49
PH
3784PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3785 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3786 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3787 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3788 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3789 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3790 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3791 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3792
294520c8
TK
3793TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3794 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3795 details.
3796
5bd022fe
PH
3797PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3798 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3799
90e9ce59
PH
3800PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3801 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3802 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3803 test. It is now used for both.
3804
5ea81592
PH
3805PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3806 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3807 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3808 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3809 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3810 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3811
c6c2dc1d
PH
3812PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3813 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3814 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3815 string_vformat().
3816
fffffe4c
PH
3817PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3818 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3819 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3820
9a26b6b2
PH
3821PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3822 experimental DomainKeys support:
3823
3824 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3825 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3826 the control was given.
3827
3828 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3829
4aee0225
PH
3830PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3831
32d668a5
PH
3832PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3833
8187c3f3
PH
3834PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3835 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3836 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3837 db.h files).
3838
ff790e47 3839PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3840 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3841 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3842 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3843 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3844 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3845 course.
ff790e47 3846
5417f6d1
PH
3847PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3848 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3849 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3850 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3851 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3852 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3853
59cf8544
PH
3854PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3855 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3856 do -d+all out of habit.
3857
e7ad8a65
PH
3858PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3859 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3860 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3861
ade42478
PH
3862PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3863 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3864 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3865 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3866 record types that Exim uses.
3867
182ad5cf
PH
3868PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3869 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3870 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3871 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3872 non-existent file that was broken.
3873
b0d9fc80
TK
3874TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3875 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3876
3877TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3878 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3879 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3880
3881TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3882
47c7a64a
PH
3883PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3884 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3885 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3886 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3887 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3888 same time.
3889
a388bce4
SC
3890SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3891 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3892 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3893 at a slight CPU cost.
3894
3895SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3896 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3897
3898SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3899 by Marc Sherman.
3900
0793e4ed
SC
3901SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3902
c58b88df
PH
3903PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3904 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3905
e7ad8a65 3906
7982096b
PH
3907Exim version 4.51
3908-----------------
3909
1a46a8c5
PH
3910TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3911 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3912
2f079f46 3913TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3914
3915TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3916
3917PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3918 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3919
3920PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3921 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3922 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3923 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3924 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3925 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3926 file.
3927
3928PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3929 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3930 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3931 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3932 these two options.
3933
3934PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3935 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3936 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3937 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3938 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3939 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3940 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3941 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3942
3943PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3944 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3945
3946PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3947 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3948 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3949 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3950 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3951 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3952
3953PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3954 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3955 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3956 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3957
3958PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3959 Finch).
3960
3961PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3962 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3963
49c2d5ea
PH
3964PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3965 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3966 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3967 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3968 message.
49c2d5ea 3969
bf759a8b
PH
3970PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3971
83364d30
PH
3972PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3973 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3974
7999bbd7
PH
3975PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3976 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3977 to what was transported.)
3978
7dbf77c9
PH
3979TF/01 Added $received_time.
3980
74e0617f
PH
3981PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3982 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3983 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3984 spamd_address settings.
3985
2f079f46
PH
3986PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3987 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3988 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3989 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3990 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3991
8c841523
PH
3992PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3993
7766a4f0
PH
3994PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3995 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3996 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3997 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3998 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3999
8b417f2c
PH
4000PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4001 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4002
901f42cb
PH
4003PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4004 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4005 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4006 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4007 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4008 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4009 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4010 for failure.
4011
f9b9210e
PH
4012PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4013 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4014 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4015 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4016 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4017 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4018 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4019 "input=".
4020
54cdb463
PH
4021PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4022
cf00dad6
PH
4023PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4024 driver and ACL definitions.
4025
acb1b346
PH
4026PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4027 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4028
c5ddb310
PH
4029PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4030 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4031 understands it better than I do:
4032
4033 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4034 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4035
4036 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4037 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4038 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4039 => three warnings about OTP not working
4040 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4041
4042 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4043 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4044 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4045 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4046 for each call.)
4047 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4048 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4049
4050 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4051 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4052 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4053
31619da6
PH
4054PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4055 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4056 specified.
4057
bebaf0fc
PH
4058PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4059 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4060 "Linux".
4061
475fe28a
PH
4062PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4063 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4064 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4065
4066 warn !verify = sender
4067 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4068
4069 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4070 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4071
7e8bec7a
PH
4072PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4073
4074 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4075 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4076
4077 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4078 nomenclature these days.)
4079
e4a89c47
PH
4080PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4081 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4082
5ca2a9a1
PH
4083PH/30 In these circumstances:
4084 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4085 . First host does not offer TLS;
4086 . First host accepts first address;
4087 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4088 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4089 . Second host accepts second address.
4090 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4091 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4092 address.
7e8bec7a 4093
c688b954
PH
4094PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4095 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4096 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4097 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4098 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4099
fed77020
PH
4100PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4101 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4102
7fe1560f
PH
4103PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4104 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4105
ebb6e6d5
PH
4106PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4107 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4108 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4109
9c4e8f60
PH
4110PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4111 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4112 overlooked.
4113
4114PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4115
d7174846
PH
4116PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4117 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4118 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4119 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4120 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4121 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4122 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4123
4124 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4125 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4126 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4127 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4128 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4129
4130 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4131 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4132 routed further.
4133
cfe75fc3
PH
4134PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4135 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4136 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4137 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4138 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4139 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4140
be22d70e
PH
4141PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4142
0612b098
PH
4143PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4144 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4145 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4146 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4147 printable escape sequences.
4148
2e0c1448
PH
4149PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4150 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4151 body only.
4152
447d236c
PH
4153PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4154 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4155 are as follows:
4156
4157 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4158 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4159 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4160 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4161 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4162
4163 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4164 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4165 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4166
d20976dc
PH
4167PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4168
f656d135
PH
4169PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4170 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4171 play with."
4172
2e2a30b4
PH
4173PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4174 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4175 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4176 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4177 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4178 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4179 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4180 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4181 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4182 the log output.
4183
9176e9f0
PH
4184PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4185 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4186 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4187 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4188 "make".
4189
7982096b 4190
bbe902f0
PH
4191A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4192----------------------------------------
4193
4194Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4195changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4196needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4197in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4198that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4199release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4200from 4.43.
4201
4202I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
42034.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4204those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4205historical information.
4206
4207
f7b63901 4208Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4209-----------------
4210
5fe762f6
PH
4211 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4212
139059f6 4213 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4214 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4215
7086e875
PH
4216 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4217 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4218 place.
4219
35af9f61
PH
4220 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4221 filter fails to execute.
4222
b668c215
PH
4223 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4224 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4225 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4226 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4227 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4228
a494b1e1
PH
4229 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4230
4231 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4232 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4233 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4234 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4235
c5fcb476
PH
4236 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4237 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4238 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4239 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4240 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4241
69358f02
PH
4242 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4243
5be20824
PH
424410. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4245
eb2c0248
PH
424611. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4247 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4248 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4249 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4250
2a3eea10
PH
425112. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4252 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4253 sender verification.
4254
425513. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4256 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4257
23c7ff99
PH
425814. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4259
4deaf07d
PH
426015. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4261 connection timeout.
4262
926e1192
PH
426316. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4264 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4265
650edc6f
PH
426617. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4267 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4268
2c7db3f5
PH
426918. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4270 information about exactly what failed.
4271
3d235903
PH
427219. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4273
7c7ad977
PH
427420. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4275 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4276 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4277
981756db
PH
427821. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4279 It is now set to "smtps".
4280
d4eb88df
PH
428122. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4282 ignore_target_hosts.
4283
428423. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4285 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4286 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4287 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4288 "[x.x.x.x]".
4289
7d468ab8
PH
429024. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4291 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4292 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4293
429425. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4295 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4296 wake it up if nothing else does.
4297
62c0818f
PH
429826. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4299 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4300 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4301 end up negative.
4302
26034054
PH
430327. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4304 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4305
af66f652
PH
430628. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4307
90af77f4
PH
430829. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4309 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4310 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4311 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4312 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4313 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4314 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4315 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4316
d8ef3577
PH
431730. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4318 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4319 than one IP address.
4320
5cb8cbc6
PH
432131. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4322 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4323 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4324 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4325
14702f5b
PH
432632. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4327 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4328 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4329 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4330 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4331 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4332
063b1e99
PH
433333. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4334 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4335 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4336 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4337
652e1b65
PH
433834. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4339 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4340 respected.
4341
6f0c9a4f
PH
434235. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4343 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4344 $sender_host_address.
4345
33397d19
PH
434636. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4347 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4348 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4349 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4350 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4351 very small.
4352
7bb56e1f
PH
435337. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4354
4355 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4356 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4357
ea3bc19b
PH
4358 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4359 just the host names, not the priorities.
4360
4361 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4362 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4363 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4364
ea3bc19b 4365 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4366 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4367
0bcb2a0e
PH
436838. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4369 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4370 domain.
4371
2ac0e484
PH
437239. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4373
4e1fde53
PH
437440. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4375 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4376
de365ded
PH
437741. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4378 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4379 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4380
f05da2e8
PH
438142. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4382
d6453af2
PH
438343. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4384
f7b63901
PH
438544. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4386
438745. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4388 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4389 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4390 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4391 because the tests only now provoked it.
4392
a444213a
PH
439346. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4394 (this can affect the format of dates).
4395
0ec020ea
PH
439647. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4397 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4398 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4399 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4400
b1206957
PH
440148. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4402
440349. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4404 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4405 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4406 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4407
26dd5a95
PH
440850. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4409 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4410 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4411
343b2385
PH
441251. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4413 autoreply.
4414
1c5466b9
PH
441552. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4416 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4417 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4418 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4419 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4420 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4421 is going on).
4422
55ee9ee3
PH
442353. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4424 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4425 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4426 the line.
4427
d38f8232
PH
442854. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4429 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4430 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4431
4432 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4433 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4434 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4435 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4436 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4437 so I produce this patch..."
4438
3295e65b
PH
4439 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4440 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4441 is not defined.
4442
7102e136
PH
444355. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4444 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4445 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4446 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4447 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4448
3ca0ba97
PH
444956. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4450
c2bcbe20
PH
445157. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4452 long debug lines gets shown.
4453
18ce445d
PH
445458. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4455 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4456
1f5b4c3d
PH
445759. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4458
4459 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4460 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4461 of $primary_hostname.
4462
b975ba52
PH
446360. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4464 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4465 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4466 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4467 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4468 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4469 by change 4.50/55 above.
4470
4471 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4472 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4473 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4474 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4475 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4476 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4477 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4478
447961. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4480 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4481 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4482 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4483
17ffcae7
PH
448462. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4485 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4486
d95f9fdb
PH
448763. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4488 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4489 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4490 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4491 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4492
86b8287f
PH
449364. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4494 This has been fixed.
4495
60dc5e56
PH
449665. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4497 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4498 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4499 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4500 the caching.)
4501
533244af
PH
450266. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4503
a5a28604
PH
450467. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4505 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4506 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4507 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4508
7e634d24
PH
450968. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4510 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4511
3e11c26b
PH
451269. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4513 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4514 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4515
6729cf78
PH
451670. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4517 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4518 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4519 message there.
4520
00f00ca5
PH
452171. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4522 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4523 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4524
c9bdd01c
PH
452572. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4526 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4527 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4528 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4529
d43194df
PH
453073. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4531 during host lookups.
4532
fe5b5d0b
PH
453374. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4534 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4535
4536 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4537
76a2d7ba
PH
453875. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4539 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4540 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4541 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4542 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4543 background.
4544
454576. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4546 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4547
04f7d5b9
PH
454877. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4549 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4550 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4551
bc60667e
PH
455278. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4553
bb6e88ff
PH
455479. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4555 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4556 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4557 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4558 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4559 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4560 process earlier.
4561
1e70f85b
PH
456280. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4563 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4564 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4565 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4566 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4567
456881. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4569 tables).
4570
4e01f9d6
PH
457182. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4572
1ee1cef2
PH
457383. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4574 "vacation" handling.
4575
6e2b4ccc
PH
457684. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4577 OS variants using glibc.
4578
8e669ac1
PH
457985. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4580
495ae4b0 4581
bbe902f0
PH
4582----------------------------------------------------
4583See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4584----------------------------------------------------
4585
4586
4587Exim version 4.44
4588-----------------
4589
4590 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4591 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4592 transport
4593
4594 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4595 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4596 place.
4597
4598 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4599 filter fails to execute.
4600
4601 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4602 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4603 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4604 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4605 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4606
4607 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4608 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4609 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4610 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4611
4612 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4613 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4614 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4615 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4616 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4617
4618 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4619
4620 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4621 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4622 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4623 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4624
4625 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4626 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4627 sender verification.
4628
462910. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4630 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4631
463211. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4633 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4634
463512. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4636 ignore_target_hosts.
4637
463813. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4639 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4640 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4641 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4642 "[x.x.x.x]".
4643
464414. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4645 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4646 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4647
464815. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4649 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4650 wake it up if nothing else does.
4651
465216. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4653 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4654 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4655 end up negative.
4656
465717. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4658 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4659
ea3a6f44 466018. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4661
466219. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4663 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4664 empty pattern.
4665
466620. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4667 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4668 one IP address.
4669
ea3a6f44
NM
467021. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4671 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4672 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4673 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4674 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4675 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4676
ea3a6f44
NM
467722. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4678 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4679 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4680
468123. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4682 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4683 $sender_host_address.
4684
468524. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4686
ea3a6f44
NM
468725. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4688 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4689 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4690
469126. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4692 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4693
ea3a6f44
NM
469427. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4695 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4696
ea3a6f44
NM
469728. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4698 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4699 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4700 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4701
470229. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4703 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4704 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4705
ea3a6f44
NM
470630. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4707 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4708 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4709 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4710
ea3a6f44
NM
471131. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4712 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4713 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4714
ea3a6f44
NM
471531. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4716 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4717
ea3a6f44
NM
471832. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4719 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4720 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4721 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4722 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4723 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4724 is going on).
bbe902f0 4725
ea3a6f44
NM
472633. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4727 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4728 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4729 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4730 CAN-2005-0021
4731
ea3a6f44
NM
473234. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4733 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4734 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4735 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4736 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4737 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4738 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4739
4740 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4741 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4742 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4743 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4744 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4745 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4746 CAN-2005-0021
4747
ea3a6f44
NM
474835. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4749 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4750 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4751 CAN-2005-0022
4752
ea3a6f44
NM
475336. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4754 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4755 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4756 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4757 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4758
ea3a6f44
NM
475937. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4760 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4761 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4762 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4763 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4764
ea3a6f44
NM
476538. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4766 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4767 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4768 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4769 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4770
4771
495ae4b0
PH
4772Exim version 4.43
4773-----------------
4774
4775 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4776 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4777 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4778 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4779 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4780 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4781 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4782
4783 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4784 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4785 the delivery.
4786
4787 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4788
4789 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4790
4791 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4792 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4793 to local_scan().
4794
4795 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4796 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4797 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4798 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4799 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4800
4801 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4802 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4803
4804 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4805
4806 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4807
480810. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4809 header_sender only.
4810
481111. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4812 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4813
481412. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4815 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4816 affecting debugging statements).
4817
481813. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4819
482014. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4821 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4822 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4823 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4824 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4825 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4826 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4827 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4828 after the received time, and all would be well.
4829
483015. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4831 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4832 condition in an expansion string.
4833
483416. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4835
483617. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4837 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4838 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4839 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4840 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4841 job under whatever limits there are.
4842
484318. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4844
484519. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4846 space).
4847
484820. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4849 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4850 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4851 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4852 return path is set.
4853
485421. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4855 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4856 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4857 binary data in such strings.
4858
485922. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4860
486123. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4862 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4863 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4864 failure, which is pointless.
4865
486624. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4867
486825. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4869
487026. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4871 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4872 Sender: header lines.
4873
487427. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4875 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4876 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4877
487828. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4879 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4880 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4881 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4882 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4883 happens.
4884
488529. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4886 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4887 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4888 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4889 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4890
489130. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4892 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4893 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4894 1024.
4895
489631. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4897 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4898
489932. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4900 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4901
490233. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4903
490432. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4905
490633. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4907
490834. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4909 syntax error.
4910
491135. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4912
491336. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4914
491537. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4916 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4917 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4918 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4919
492038. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4921 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4922
4923
4924Exim version 4.42
4925-----------------
4926
4927 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4928 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4929 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4930 it was not quoted.
4931 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4932 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4933 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4934 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4935 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4936 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4937
4938 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4939 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4940 verification failure".
4941
4942 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4943 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4944 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4945 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4946
4947 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4948 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4949 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4950 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4951 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4952 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4953 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4954 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4955 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4956 treated as a timeout.
4957
4958 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4959 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4960 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4961 not set for Exim filters).
4962
4963 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4964 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4965 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4966
4967 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4968
4969 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4970 try to make them clearer.
4971
4972 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4973 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4974
4975 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4976
4977 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4978
497910. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4980 only the Cygwin environment.
4981
498211. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4983 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4984 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4985 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4986 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4987
498812. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4989 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4990 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4991 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4992 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4993 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4994 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4995
499613. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4997 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4998
499914. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5000
5001 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5002 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5003 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5004
5005 To: susanne@some.where
5006
5007 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5008 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5009 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5010 of addresses in From: header lines).
5011
5012 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5013 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5014 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5015
5016 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5017 treated as non-personal.
5018
5019 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5020 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5021
502215. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5023
502416. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5025
502617. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5027 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5028 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5029
503018. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5031 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5032
503319. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5034 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5035 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5036 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5037 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5038 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5039
504020. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5041 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5042 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5043 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5044 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5045 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5046 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5047 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5048
5049 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5050
505121. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5052 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5053
505422. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5055 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5056 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5057
505823. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5059 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5060
506124. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5062 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5063 rather than long int.
5064
506525. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5066
506726. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5068
5069
5070Exim version 4.41
5071-----------------
5072
5073 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5074 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5075 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5076 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5077 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5078 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5079
5080
5081Exim version 4.40
5082-----------------
5083
5084 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5085 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5086
5087 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5088 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5089 socklen_t is defined.
5090
5091 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5092 always exist.
5093
5094 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5095 configured.
5096
5097 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5098 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5099 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5100 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5101 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5102
5103 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5104 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5105 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5106 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5107
5108 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5109 of flapping under certain conditions.
5110
5111 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5112 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5113 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5114
5115 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5116
511710. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5118
511911. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5120 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5121 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5122 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5123
512412. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5125 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5126 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5127 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5128 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5129 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5130 preserved with the message after it was received.
5131
513213. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5133 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5134 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5135 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5136 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5137 test suite worked just fine.
5138
513914. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5140 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5141 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5142
514315. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5144 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5145 string.
5146
514716. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5148 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5149 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5150 does not fully solve it.
5151
515217. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5153 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5154 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5155 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5156 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5157
515818. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5159 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5160 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5161
516219. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5163 string, for example:
5164
5165 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5166
5167 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5168 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5169 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5170 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5171 the routers could not see them.
5172
517320. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5174 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5175
517621. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5177 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5178 output).
5179
518022. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5181 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5182 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5183 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5184 that needed quoting.
5185
518623. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5187 was not being matched caselessly.
5188
518924. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5190 backslashes.
5191
519225. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5193 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5194 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5195 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5196 when use_sender is false.
5197
519826. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5199
520027. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5201
520228. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5203
520429. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5205 the configuration file.
5206
520730. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5208 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5209
521031. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5211
521232. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5213 bytes in the message body.
5214
521533. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5216 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5217 delivery.
5218
521934. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5220
522135. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5222
522336. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5224 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5225 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5226 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5227 another IP address.
5228
5229
5230Exim version 4.34
5231-----------------
5232
5233 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5234 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5235
5236 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5237 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5238 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5239 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5240 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5241
5242 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5243 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5244
5245 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5246 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5247 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5248
5249 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5250 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5251 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5252
5253 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5254 for routers.
5255
5256 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5257 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5258 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5259 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5260 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5261 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5262 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5263
5264
5265Exim version 4.33
5266-----------------
5267
5268 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5269 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5270 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5271 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5272 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5273 default (and expected) setting.
5274
5275 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5276 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5277 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5278 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5279
5280 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5281 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5282
5283 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5284 in domain lists.
5285
5286 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5287 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5288 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5289 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5290 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5291 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5292
5293 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5294 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5295 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5296
5297 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5298 part (NOT match_host).
5299
5300 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5301
5302 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5303 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5304 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5305 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5306 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5307 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5308 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5309 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5310 the same named file.
5311
531210. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5313 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5314 when Exim is built.
5315
531611. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5317 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5318 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5319 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5320 a host name.
5321
532212. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5323 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5324 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5325
532613. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5327
532814. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5329
533015. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5331
533216. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5333 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5334
533517. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5336 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5337 before starting the TLS session.
5338
533918. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5340
534119. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5342 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5343
534420. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5345 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5346 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5347 colon in the middle).
5348
5349
5350Exim version 4.32
5351-----------------
5352
5353 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5354 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5355 multiple configurations are in use.
5356
5357 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5358 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5359 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5360 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5361 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5362 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5363
5364 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5365 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5366
5367 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5368 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5369 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5370
5371 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5372 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5373 occurs.
5374
5375 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5376 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5377
5378 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5379
5380 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5381 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5382
5383 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5384
5385 -prval:sval
5386
5387 is equivalent to
5388
5389 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5390
5391 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5392 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5393 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5394 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5395 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5396
539710. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5398 Exim's behaviour:
5399
5400 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5401 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5402 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5403 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5404 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5405 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5406
5407 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5408 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5409 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5410 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5411 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5412 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5413 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5414 string.
5415
5416 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5417 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5418 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5419 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5420 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5421
542211. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5423
542412. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5425 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5426 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5427
542813. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5429
543014. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5431 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5432 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5433 information.
5434
543515. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5436 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5437
543816. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5439 Three changes have been made:
5440
5441 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5442 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5443 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5444 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5445 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5446
5447 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5448 been restored.
5449
5450 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5451 the modified behaviour.
5452
5453
5454Exim version 4.31
5455-----------------
5456
5457 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5458 Larry Rosenman.
5459
5460 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5461 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5462
5463 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5464 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5465 try to track down a specific problem.
5466
5467 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5468 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5469 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5470
5471 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5472 warning.
5473
5474 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5475 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5476 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5477 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5478 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5479 some earlier ones do not.
5480
5481 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5482
5483 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5484 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5485 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5486 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5487 address literals are enabled, of course).
5488
5489 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5490
549110. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5492 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5493 by a command such as
5494
5495 exim -f "" ...
5496
5497 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5498
549911. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5500
550112. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5502 remained set. It is now erased.
5503
550413. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5505 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5506
550714. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5508 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5509 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5510 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5511 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5512 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5513 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5514 appropriate error code.
5515
551615. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5517 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5518 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5519 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5520 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5521 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5522
552316. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5524 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5525 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5526
552717. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5528 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5529 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5530 terminate the header.
5531
553218. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5533 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5534 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5535
553619. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5537 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5538 (4.30/29). In particular:
5539
5540 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5541 imposed.
5542
5543 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5544 to write a maildirsize file.
5545
5546 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5547 the transport, the new value overrides.
5548
5549 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5550 count.
5551
555220. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5553 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5554 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5555 space or a tab.
5556
555721. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5558 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5559 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5560 the fallback hosts.
5561
556222. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5563 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5564 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5565
556623. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5567 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5568 using a union.
5569
557024. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5571 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5572 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5573
557425. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5575
557626. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5577
557827. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5579
558028. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5581 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5582 become corrupted.
5583
558429. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5585 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5586 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5587 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5588 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5589 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5590 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5591 too great.
5592
559330. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5594 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5595 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5596 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5597 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5598 incorrectly.
5599
560031. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5601 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5602 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5603 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5604 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5605 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5606 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5607 cached value only when the same options are set.
5608
560932. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5610
561133. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5612 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5613 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5614 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5615 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5616
561734: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5618 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5619 it is clearly obsolete.
5620
562135. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5622 transport.
5623
562436. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5625 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5626 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5627 times.
5628
562937. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5630 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5631 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5632 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5633 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5634
563538. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5636 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5637 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5638 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5639
564039. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5641
5642 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5643
5644 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5645 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5646 2^31.
5647
564840. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5649 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5650 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5651 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5652 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5653 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5654 $localpart_data.
5655
565641. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5657 with the -f command-line option.
5658
565942. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5660 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5661 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5662 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5663 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5664 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5665
566643. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5667 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5668 line.
5669
567044. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5671 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5672 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5673 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5674 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5675 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5676 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5677 buffer is too small.
5678
567945. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5680 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5681
568246. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5683 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5684 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5685 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5686 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5687 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5688 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5689 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5690 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5691
569247. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5693 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5694 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5695
569648. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5697 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5698 ACL").
5699
570049. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5701 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5702 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5703 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5704 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5705
570650. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5707 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5708 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5709 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5710 is set.
5711
571251. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5713
571452. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5715
571653. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5717 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5718
571954. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5720 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5721 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5722
572355. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5724 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5725 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5726 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5727 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5728
572956. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5730 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5731 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5732 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5733 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5734 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5735 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5736
573757. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5738 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5739 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5740 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5741 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5742 the test of how many are available.
5743
574458. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5745 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5746 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 5747 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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5748 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5749 new message is started.
5750
575159. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5752 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5753
575460. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5755 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5756
575761. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5758 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5759 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5760 is no long logged.
5761
576262. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5763 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5764 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5765 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5766 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5767 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5768 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5769
577063. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5771 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5772 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5773 interpreted as octal.
5774
577564. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5776 setting.
5777
577865. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5779 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5780 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5781 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5782 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5783 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5784
578566. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5786 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5787 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5788 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5789
5790 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5791 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5792 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5793 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5794
5795 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5796 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5797 is a bug fix.
5798
5799 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5800 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5801
580267. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5803
580468. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5805 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5806 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5807 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5808
580969. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5810 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5811 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5812 supplied", which is not helpful.
5813
581470. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5815 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5816 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5817
581871. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5819 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5820 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5821 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5822 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5823 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5824 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5825 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5826
582772. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5828 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5829 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5830 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5831 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5832
583373. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5834 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5835 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5836 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 5837 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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5838 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5839
584074. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5841 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5842 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5843
584475. Added write_rejectlog option.
5845
584676. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5847 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5848 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5849 variables.
5850
585177. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5852
585378. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5854 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5855 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5856 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5857 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5858 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5859 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5860 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5861
586279. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5863 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5864 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5865 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5866 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5867
586880. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5869 Haardt.
5870
587181. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5872 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5873 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5874 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5875 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5876 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5877 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5878 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5879 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5880
5881
5882Exim version 4.30
5883-----------------
5884
5885 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5886 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5887 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5888
5889 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5890 fixed.
5891
5892 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5893 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5894 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5895
5896 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5897 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5898 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5899 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5900 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 5901 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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5902
5903 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5904 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5905 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5906 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5907 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5908 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5909 the Exim test suite.
5910
5911 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5912 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5913 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5914 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5915
5916 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5917 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5918 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5919 specify it in this variable.
5920
5921 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5922 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5923 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5924 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5925
5926 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5927 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5928 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5929 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5930
5931 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5932 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5933 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5934 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5935 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5936
5937 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5938
593910. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5940 they are logged.
5941
594211. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5943 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5944 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5945 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5946 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5947
594812. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5949 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5950
595113. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5952 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 5953 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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5954 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5955 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5956
595714. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5958 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5959
596015. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5961 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5962 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5963
596416. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5965 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5966
596717. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5968 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5969
597018. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5971 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5972 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5973
597419. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5975 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5976
597720. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5978 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5979 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5980 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5981
598221. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5983
598422. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5985 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5986 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5987 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5988
598923. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5990
599124. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5992 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5993
599425. Added .include_if_exists.
5995
599626. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5997 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5998 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5999 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6000 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6001 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6002
600327. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6004
600528. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6006 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6007 this.
6008
600929. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6010
601130. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6012 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6013
6014 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6015 550 Sender verify failed
6016
6017 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6018 the final line of the response.
6019
602031. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6021 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6022 all other user lookups.
6023
602432. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6025 delivery time.
6026
602733. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6028 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6029 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6030 result into an int without checking.
6031
603234. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6033 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6034 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6035
603635. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6037 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6038 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6039 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6040
604136. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6042 correctly.
6043
604437. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6045 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6046
604738. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6048 to the empty sender.
6049
605039. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6051 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6052 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6053 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6054 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6055 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6056 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6057 panic log.
6058
605940. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6060 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6061 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6062 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6063 used.
6064
606541. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6066 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6067
606842. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6069 timestamps.
6070
607143. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6072 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6073
607444. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6075
607645. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6077 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6078 logs.
6079
608046. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6081 as soon as it is encountered.
6082
608347. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6084
608548. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6086 rewritten to "<>".
6087
608849. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6089 recognizes a tab character.
6090
609150. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6092 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6093 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6094 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6095
609651. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6097
609852. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6099 crash.
6100
610153. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6102
610354. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6104
610555. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6106 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6107 2822.
6108
610956. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6110 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6111 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6112 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6113 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6114
611557. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6116 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6117
611858. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6119 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6120 list (.included file names were always shown).
6121
612259. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6123 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6124 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6125 root at that time.
6126
612760. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6128 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6129
613061. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6131
613262. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6133
613463. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6135
613664. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6137 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6138 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6139 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6140 failures to open the logs.
6141
614265. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6143 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6144 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6145 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6146 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6147 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6148 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6149
6150
6151Exim version 4.24
6152-----------------
6153
6154 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6155 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6156 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6157 change 4.23/1.
6158
6159 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6160 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6161 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6162
6163 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6164 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6165 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6166
6167 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6168 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6169 causing some misleading effects.
6170
6171 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6172 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6173 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6174
6175 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6176 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6177 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6178 queue-runner function directly.
6179
6180
6181Exim version 4.23
6182-----------------
6183
6184 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6185 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6186
6187 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6188 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6189 was always written to the default place.
6190
6191 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6192 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6193 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6194
6195 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6196
6197 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6198
6199 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6200 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6201 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6202
6203 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6204 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6205 must start.
6206
6207 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6208 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6209 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6210
6211 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6212 command line option is disabled.
6213
6214 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6215 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6216
6217 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6218
6219 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6220
6221 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6222 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6223
622410. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6225
622611. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6227 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6228 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6229 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6230 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6231 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6232
623312. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6234 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6235 timeout.
6236
623713. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6238 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6239
624014. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6241 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6242
624315. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6244 received was valid base64.
6245
624616. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6247 name of the variable that was being set.
6248
624917. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6250
625118. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6252 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6253 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6254 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6255 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6256 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6257
625819. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6259
626020. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6261 nor realm was specified.
6262
626321. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6264 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6265 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6266 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6267
626822. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6269 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6270 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6271
627223. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6273 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6274 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6275
627624. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6277 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6278 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6279 some systems use these upper case variants.
6280
628125. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6282 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6283 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6284 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6285
628626. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6287
628827. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6289 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6290
629128. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6292 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6293 expansion variable.
6294
629529. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6296
629730. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6298 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6299 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6300 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6301
630231. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6303 using it.
6304
630532. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6306 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6307 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6308
630933. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6310 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6311
631234. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6313 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6314 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6315 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6316
631735. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6318 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6319 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6320
632136. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6322
632337. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6324 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6325 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6326 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6327 aborted.
6328
632938. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6330 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6331 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6332
633339. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6334
633540. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6336 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6337
633841. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6339 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6340
634142. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6342 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6343 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6344 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6345 when emails are that large.
6346
6347
6348
6349Exim version 4.22
6350-----------------
6351
6352 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6353 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6354
6355 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6356 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6357 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6358
6359 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6360 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6361 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6362
6363 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6364 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6365 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6366 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6367 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6368
6369 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6370 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6371 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6372 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6373 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6374 ever.
6375
6376 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6377 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6378 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6379 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6380 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6381 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6382 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6383 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6384 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6385 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6386 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6387 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6388 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6389 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6390
6391 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6392 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6393 parameterised it.
6394
6395 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6396 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6397 error should be diagnosed.
6398
6399 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6400 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6401 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6402 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6403 appeared instead of "NULL".
6404
640510. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6406 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6407 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6408 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6409 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6410 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6411 proceeds).
6412
6413 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6414 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6415 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6416
6417
6418Exim version 4.21
6419-----------------
6420
6421 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6422 or receiver verification errors.
6423
6424 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6425 name.
6426
6427 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6428 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6429 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6430 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6431
6432 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6433 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6434 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6435 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6436 shouldn't happen again.
6437
6438 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6439 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6440 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6441
6442 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6443 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6444
6445 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6446
6447 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6448 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6449
6450 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6451 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6452 RFC.
6453
645410. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6455 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6456 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6457
645811. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6459 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6460 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6461 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6462
646312. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6464 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6465 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6466 to define what should happen).
6467
646813. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6469 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6470 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6471
647214. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6473
647415. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6475
647616. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6477 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6478
4c04137d 647917. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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6480 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6481 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6482 structure in all cases.
6483
6484 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6485 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6486 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6487 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6488
648918. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6490 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6491 domain name.
6492
649319. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6494 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6495
649620. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6497 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6498
649921. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6500 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6501 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6502
650322. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6504 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6505 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6506
650723. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6508 the book and for uniformity.
6509
651024. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6511
651225. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6513 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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6514 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6515 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6516 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6517 non-existent command as the problem.
6518
651926. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6520 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6521 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6522
652327. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6524
652528. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6526 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6527 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6528
652929. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6530 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6531 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6532 timestamps using strftime().
6533
653430. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6535 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6536
653732. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6538 transport-time rewrites.
6539
654033. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6541 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6542 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6543 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6544
654534. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6546 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6547
654835. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6549 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6550 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6551 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6552 comma and a space.
6553
655436. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6555 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6556 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6557 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6558 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6559 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6560 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6561
656237. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6563 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6564 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6565 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6566 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6567
656838. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6569 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6570 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6571 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6572 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6573 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6574 remaining text gets split now.
6575
657639. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6577 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6578 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6579 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6580
658140. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6582 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6583 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6584 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6585 $return_path.
6586
658741. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6588 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6589 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6590 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6591 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6592 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6593 passed through if needed.
6594
659542. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6596 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6597 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6598 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6599 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6600 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6601
660243. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6603 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6604 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6605 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6606 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6607
660844. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6609 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6610 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6611 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6612 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6613
661445. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6615 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6616 noticed.
6617
661846. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6619 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6620 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6621 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6622 mayhem of various kinds.
6623
662447. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6625 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 6626 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
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6627 the right test for positive values.
6628
662948. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6630 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6631 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6632 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6633 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6634 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6635 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6636 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6637 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6638 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6639 envelope.
6640
664149. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6642 module.
6643
664450. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6645 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6646 forbidding it.
6647
664851. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6649 the existing equality matching.
6650
665152. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6652 dealing with inode numbers.
6653
665453. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6655 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6656 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6657
665854. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6659 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6660 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6661 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6662 local_scan().
6663
666455. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6665 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6666 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6667 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6668 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6669 relay addresses has also been removed.
6670
667156. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6672
667357. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6674 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6675 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6676
667758. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6678 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6679 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6680 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6681 processing applies to CR:
6682
6683 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6684 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6685
6686 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6687 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6688 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6689 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6690
669159. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6692 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6693 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6694
669560. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6696 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6697 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6698 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6699 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6700 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6701 arisen.
6702
670361. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6704 program routers.
6705
670662. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6707 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6708 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6709 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6710 adds:
6711
6712 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6713
6714 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6715
6716 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6717
671863. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6719 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6720 not considered personal.
6721
672264. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6723
672465. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6725
672666. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6727
672867. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6729 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6730 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6731 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6732 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6733 header lines, and spool format errors.
6734
673568. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6736 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6737 for more flexibility.
6738
673969. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6740 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6741 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6742
674370. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6744 Sabourenkov.
6745
674671. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6747 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6748 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6749 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6750 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6751 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6752 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6753 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6754 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6755
675672. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6757 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6758 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6759 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6760 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6761 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6762 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6763
676473. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6765 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6766 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6767
676874. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6769 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6770 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6771 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6772 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6773 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6774 instead of killing the process with assert().
6775
677675. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6777 than Unicode encoding.
6778
677976. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6780 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6781 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6782 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6783
678477. Added process_log_path.
6785
678678. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6787 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6788
678979. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6790 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6791
679280. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6793 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6794 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6795
679681. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6797 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6798 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6799 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6800 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6801 were applied:
6802
6803 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6804 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6805 as invalid.
6806
680782. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6808 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6809 they will be used during message reception.
6810
6811
6812Exim version 4.20
6813-----------------
6814
6815The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6816
6817****