Move DSN support to mainline
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
8 expanded.
9
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10JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
11
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12JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
13 it.
14
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15JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
16 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostname
17 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
18 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
19
cb1d7830 20JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 21 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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22 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
23
610ff438 24JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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25 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
26 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
27 TLS connections
610ff438 28
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29JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
30 sites use this now.
31
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32JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
33 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
34 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
35 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
36 have a dsn_lasthop option.
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40Exim version 4.85
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42TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
43 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
44 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
45 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
46 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
47 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
48 the script parsing/test process like normal.
49
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50TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
51 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
52 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
53 function when detected.
54
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55JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
56 cause callback expansion.
57
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58TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
59 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
60 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
61 instead of bool when processing it.
62
0f06b4f2 63JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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64 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
65
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66JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
67
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68JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
69
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70TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
71
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72TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
73 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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75JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
76 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
77 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
78 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
79 to notice due to the introduction of conection certificate information,
80 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
81
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82JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
83 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
84 exceeded it.
85
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86JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
87 version 3.3.6 or later.
88
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89JH/08 Rename the TPDA expermimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
90 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
91 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 92 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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93 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
94 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
95 option is defined.
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97TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
98 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
99
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100JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
101 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
102 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
103 matches.
104
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105JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
106 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
107 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
108
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109JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
110 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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111
112JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
113 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
114 syntax errors.
115
3394b36a 116JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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117
118JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
119 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
120
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121TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
122 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
123 tarball.
124
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125JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
126
127JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t anchitectures.
128 Bug 1561.
129
130JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
131 output list separator was used.
132
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134Exim version 4.84
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136TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
137 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
138 return.
1f0ebb98 139
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140JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
141 This was a regression intruduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
142
143JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
144
145TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 146 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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151
152TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
153
154 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
155 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
156 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
157 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
158 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
159 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
160
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161TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
162 utilities have not been installed.
163
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164JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
165 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
166
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167TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
168 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
169
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170TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
171 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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172 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
173 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 174
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175JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
176
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177TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
178 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
179
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180PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
181 not dns_use_dnssec.
182
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183JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
184
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185TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
186 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
187 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
188
8ddef691 189TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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190 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
191 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
192 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
193 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 194 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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196JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
197
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198JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
199 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
200
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201JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
202 failed delivery.
203
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204JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
205
511a6c14 206JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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208JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
209 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 210
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211JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
212 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
213
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214TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
215
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216JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
217
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218JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
219 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
220
221 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
222 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
223 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
224
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225TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
226 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
227 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
228 analysis.
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230JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
231
8c51eead 232JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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233 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
234 lookup).
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236TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
237 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
238 Schlichting.
35aba663 239
fd3b6a4a 240JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 241 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 242
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243TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
244 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
245
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246JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
247
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248TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
249 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
250 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
251
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252JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
253 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
254
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255JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
256 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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257 hosts_request_ocsp.
258
ed3bba5f 259JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 260 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 261 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 262
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263JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
264
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265TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
266 Christian Aistleitner.
267
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268JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
269
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270TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
271 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
272
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273JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
274 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
275
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276JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
277 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
278
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279TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
280 support and error reporting did not work properly.
281
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282TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
283 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
284
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285TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
286 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
287 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
288
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289JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
290
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291PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
292 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
293 Jasper Wallace.
294
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295JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
296
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297TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
298 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
299 CVE-2014-2972
300
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304
305PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
306
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307PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
308 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
309
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310PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
311 by GnuTLS.
312
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313PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
314 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
315 routines.
316
13363eba 317PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 318
66645890 319PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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320 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
321 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
322 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
323 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 324
a3fb9793 325PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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326 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
327 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
328 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 329 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 330 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 331
d27f98fe 332TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 333
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334TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
335
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336TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
337 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
338
ae0e32ee 339TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 340 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 341 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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343TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
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345TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
346
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347TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
348 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
349
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350JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
351
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352JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
353
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354PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
355
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356NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
357 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 358
585121e2 359JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
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361PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
362 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
363 function.
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365PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
366 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
367
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368JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
369 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
370 "acl = name arg..."
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372JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
373
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374JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
375
ea722490 376JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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377 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
378
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379JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
380 Bugzilla 884.
381
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382JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
383 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
384
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385JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
386 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
387
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388PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
389 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 390 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 391
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392JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
393 authenticators.
394
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395JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
396 for control.
397
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398PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
399
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400PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
401 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
402 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
403 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
404
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405TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
406
407 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
408 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
409 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
410 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
411 the retry rules.
412
413 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
414 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
415 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
416
417 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
418 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
419 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
420 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
421
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422 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
423 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
424 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
425 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
426 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
427 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
428 delivery, as in LMTP.
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429
430 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
431 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
432
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433TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
434
435 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
436
437 Resent-From: f
438
439 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
440 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
441 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
442 username as equal to the username.
443
444 This change corrects that bug.
445
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446GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
447 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
448 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
449
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450TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
451
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452PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
453 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
454 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
455 NULL dereference and crash.
456
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457JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
458
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459PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
460 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
461 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
462
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463SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
464
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465JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
466 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
467 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
468 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
469 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
470 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
471 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
472 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
473 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
474 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
475 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
476
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477PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
478 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
479
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480PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
481 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
482 Bugzilla 880.
483
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484PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
485 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
486 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
487 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
488 an empty string is now equivalent.
489
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490PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
491 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
492 not performing validation itself.
493
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494PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
495 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
496
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497JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
498 Bugzilla 321, 823.
499
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500TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
501
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502PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
503 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
504 other false fix of the same issue.
505 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
506 Bugzilla 1363.
507
d13cdd30
PP
508PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
509 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
510
e2fbf4a2
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511PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
512 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
513 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
514
f4c1088b
PP
515PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
516 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
517 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
518
c5c2182f
PP
519TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
520
73431ca9
JH
521JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
522
2d07a215
TL
523TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
524 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
525
a30a8861
TL
526TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
527 Alexander Miroch.
528
33382dd9
TL
529TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
530 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
531 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
532 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
533 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 534
046172e6
TL
535TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
536 the src/util/ subdirectory.
537
581d7bee 538TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 539 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
540 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
541
542TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
543 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
544 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
545 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
546
237b2cf2
TL
547TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
548
9fc5a352
TL
549TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
550 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
551 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 552
b10e4ec2
TL
553TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
554
e2cebd74
TL
555TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
556 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
557 interaction.
558
559TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
560 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
561
2519e60d
TL
562TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
563 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
564
e78e6ecf 565
4263f395
PP
566Exim version 4.80.1
567-------------------
568
569PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
570 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 571 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 572
ea722490 573
b1770b6e 574Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
575-----------------
576
577PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
578 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
579 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
580
23c7e742
NM
581NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
582
b322aac8
NM
583NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
584 improved.
585
4a891427
NM
586NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
587
c1e794ba 588PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 589
97753960
PP
590PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
591
592PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
593 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
594
df6303fa
PP
595PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
596 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
597
7e6a8985
PP
598PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
599 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
600
f1e05cc7 601PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
602 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
603 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 604
4c287009
PP
605PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
606
b98bb9ac
PP
607PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
608 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
609
4a6a987a
PP
610PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
611
c45dd180 612PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 613
7db8d074
PP
614PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
615 non-compliant senders.
616 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
617
eae0036b 618NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
e0df1c83
DM
619 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
620 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
621
dec5017e
PP
622PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
623 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
624 in spool file corruption.
625
c80c5570
PP
626PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
627 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
628 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
629 "Got SSL error 2".
630
076b11e2
PP
631TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
632 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
633 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
634
5407bfff
JH
635JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
636 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
637
9e45c72b
PP
638JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
639
e74376d8
PP
640PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
641 diagnostics.
642 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
643
da3ad30d
PP
644PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
645 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
646 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
647
7be682ca
PP
648PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
649 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
650 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
651 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 652
ef840681
PP
653PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
654 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
655
5bfb4cdf
PP
656PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
657 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
658 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
659 resolver implementation change.
660
c6e95d22
PP
661PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
662 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
663
9cbad13b
PP
664PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
665
9ee44efb
PP
666PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
667
6a6084f8
PP
668PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
669 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
670
12dd53c7
PP
671PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
672 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
673
9e45c72b 674JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
675 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
676
17c76198
PP
677PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
678 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
679 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
680 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 681 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 682
53947857 683PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 684
eae0036b 685PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
686 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
687 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 688
9e45c72b 689JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 690
7390e768
PP
691PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
692 read-only, out of scope).
693 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
694
08488c86
PP
695PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
696 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
697 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
698 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
699
6475bd82
PP
700PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
701
81f91683
PP
702PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
703 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
704 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
705 real issues in debug logging.
706
5779e6aa
PP
707PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
708 assignment on my part. Fixed.
709
3375e053
PP
710PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
711 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
712 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
713
714PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
715 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
716 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
717 problems.
3375e053 718
9d26b8c0
PP
719PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
720 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
721
57eb9e91 722PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
723 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
724 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
725 needs to override this, it can.
726
16880d1a
PP
727PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
728 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
729 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
730
a799883d
PP
731PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
732 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
733 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
734 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
735
3ecab157 736PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 737
0599f9cf 738
867fcbf5
PP
739Exim version 4.77
740-----------------
741
742PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
743 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
744
f1a29782
TF
745TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
746
ab42bd23
TK
747TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
748 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 749
0ca0cf52
TF
750TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
751 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
752
921b12ca
TF
753TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
754 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
755 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
756
757 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
758 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
759 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
760 not safe for signals.
761
762 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
763 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
764 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
765 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
766 exiwhat.
767
c99ce5c9
TF
768TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
769
770 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
771 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
772 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
773 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
774 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
775
776 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
777 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
778 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
779 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
780 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
781 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
782
783 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
784 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
785 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
786 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
787
788 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
789 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
790 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
791 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
792
793 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
794 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
795 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
796 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
797 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
798 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
799 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
800 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
801 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
802
803 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
804 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
805 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
806 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
807
808 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
809 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
810 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
811 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
812 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
813 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
814 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
815 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
816 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
817 details in the main documentation.
818
3634fc25
TF
819TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
820
792e8a19
TF
821TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
822
5901f0ab
TF
823TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
824 repository when doing development or release builds.
825
7f2a2a43
PP
826PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
827 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 828
061b7ebd
PP
829PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
830 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
831 Bugzilla 97.
832
e12f8c32
PP
833PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
834
9e949f00 835PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
836 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
837
838PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
839 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 840
555ae6af 841PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
842 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
843
844PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
845 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 846
6f7fe114
PP
847PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
848 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
849
c566dd90
PP
850PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
851 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
852 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
853 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 854
d6cc7c78 855PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
856 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
857 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
858
0d0e4455
PP
859PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
860
3399bb60 861PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
862
863PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
864 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
865
0ca0cf52 866
10906672
PP
867Exim version 4.76
868-----------------
869
870PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
871
754a0503
PP
872PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
873 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
874
c0c7b2da
PP
875PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
876
e97d1f08
PP
877PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
878
084c1d8c
PP
879PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
880 Bugzilla 1098.
881
4e7ee012
PP
882PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
883 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 884
c8d52a00
PP
885TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
886 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
887
54e7ce4a
PP
888PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
889 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
890
5ee6f336
PP
891PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
892 Bugzilla 1104.
893
c8d52a00 894TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
895 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
896
897TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
898 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
899 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
900 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
901
902PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
903 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 904
10906672 905
aa097c4c
NM
906Exim version 4.75
907-----------------
908
4c9ef03a 909NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
910 Bugzilla 1073
911
7f3d9eff
TF
912TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
913 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
914 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
915
159f52d2
TF
916TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
917 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
918
0cc9542a
PP
919PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
920 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
921 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
922
f7274286
PP
923PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
924 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
925
7b797365
PP
926PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
927 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
928
caacae52
NM
929NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
930 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
931
09dcaba9
NM
932NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
933 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
934
bc19a55b
PP
935PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
936 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 937
bd4c9759
NM
938NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
939 Fixes bug 943.
940
b72aab72
PP
941PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
942 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
943
2fe76745
PP
944PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
945 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
946
76aa570c
PP
947PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
948 SQL string expansion failure details.
949 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
950
f1e5fef5
PP
951PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
952 Patch from Simon Arlott.
953
4d805ee9
PP
954PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
955 extern declarations in function scope.
956 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
957
cd59ab18
PP
958PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
959 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
960 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
961 a kernel bug).
962
332f5cf3
PP
963PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
964 Patch from Mark Zealey.
965
29cfeb94
PP
966PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
967 Patch from Mark Zealey.
968
660242ad
PP
969PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
970 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
971
bc4bc4c5
PP
972PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
973 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
974
2e64baa9
NM
975NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
976 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
977 Dennis Davis.
978
bddd7526
PP
979PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
980
6bac1a9a
PP
981PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
982
552193f0
NM
983NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
984 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 985
1b587e48
TF
986TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
987 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
988
aa097c4c 989
8c07b69f
TF
990Exim version 4.74
991-----------------
992
993TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
994 consequences so log it to the panic log.
995
c0ea85ab
TF
996TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
997 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
998
0761d44e
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999TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1000
0a349494
PP
1001DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1002 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1003 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1004
1005PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1006 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1007 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1008
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PP
1009PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1010 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1011 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1012 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1013
6545de78
PP
1014PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1015 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1016 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1017 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1018
1670ef10
PP
1019PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1020 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1021 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1022 arbitrary files.
1023
c0886197
PP
1024PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1025 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1026
b7487bce
PP
1027PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1028 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1029 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1030 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1031 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1032
8c07b69f 1033
97fd1e48 1034Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1035-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1036
1037PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1038 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1039 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1040
6901c596
PP
1041PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1042 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1043
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1044JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1045
77bb000f
PP
1046PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1047
a29e5231
PP
1048PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1049
ec5a0394 1050PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1051
55c75993
PP
1052PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1053
453a6645 1054PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1055 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1056 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1057 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1058
8544e77a
PP
1059PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1060 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1061 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1062 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1063 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1064
83e029d5
PP
1065PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1066
ed7f7860
PP
1067PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
1068
7d9f747b
PP
1069PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
1070
4b2241d2
PP
1071PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
1072
10385c15
PP
1073PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
1074
dbc4b90d
PP
1075PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
1076
532be449
PP
1077PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
1078
6a8de854 1079PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
1080 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
1081 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 1082
5dc43717
JJ
1083JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
1084
1085JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
1086 "exim" to be used
55c75993 1087
3346ab01
PP
1088PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
1089 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
1090
491fab4c
PP
1091PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
1092 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
1093 Notification from John Horne.
1094
13eb9497
PP
1095PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
1096 compatible.
1097
1098PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
1099 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
1100 it normally works.
1101
7f36d675
DW
1102DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
1103 access.
1104
c1d94452
DW
1105DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
1106 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
1107 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
1108
e2f5dc15
DW
1109DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
1110 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
1111 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
1112 configuration file.
1113
cd25e41d
DW
1114DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
1115 option (effectively making it always true).
1116
261dc43e
DW
1117DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
1118 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
1119
fa32850b
DW
1120DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
1121 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
1122
79d4bc3d
PP
1123PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
1124 run-time user, instead of root.
1125
43236f35 1126PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
1127 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
1128
fb08281f
DW
1129DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
1130 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
1131 arguments.
3346ab01 1132
74935b98
DW
1133DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
1134 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
1135 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
1136
90b6341f
DW
1137DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
1138
57730b52
ML
1139NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
1140
66581d1e 1141
465e92cf
JJ
1142Exim version 4.72
1143-----------------
1144
453a6645
PP
1145JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
1146 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
1147 typos
465e92cf 1148
453a6645
PP
1149JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1150 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1151 (Finput)
edae0343 1152
9bd3e22c
NM
1153NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1154 Patch from Alain Williams
1155
bb576ff7
NM
1156NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1157
5a1a5845
NM
1158NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1159 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1160
981a9fad
NM
1161NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1162 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1163
7fc497ee
NM
1164NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1165
1a41defa
JJ
1166JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1167
a466095c 1168NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1169 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1170
94a6bd0b
NM
1171TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1172
1173TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1174
1175MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1176 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1177 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1178
c1b141a8
NM
1179NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1180 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1181
b26eacf1 1182NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1183 Patch by Simon Arlott
1184
179c5980 1185PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1186 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1187
9bd3e22c 1188
7c6d71af
NM
1189Exim version 4.71
1190-----------------
1191
7d9f747b 1192TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1193
f013fb92
NM
1194NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1195
0eb8eedd
NM
1196NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1197
663ee6d9
NM
1198NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1199
177ebd9b
NM
1200NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1201
7c6d71af 1202
210f147e
NM
1203Exim version 4.70
1204-----------------
1205
cdd3bb85 1206TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1207 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1208
1209TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1210 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1211 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1212
1213TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1214 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1215 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1216
1217TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1218 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1219
210f147e
NM
1220NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1221 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1222 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1223 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1224
deafd5b3
NM
1225NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1226 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1227 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1228
089793a4
TF
1229TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1230
5f16ca82
TF
1231TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1232
dae9d94e 1233NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1234 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1235
7d9f747b 1236NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1237
06864c44
TF
1238TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1239 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1240 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1241 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1242
65a7d8c3 1243NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1244 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1245
23510047 1246TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1247
7d9f747b 1248NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1249
7d8eec3a 1250NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1251 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1252
89dec7b6
TF
1253TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1254 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1255
a99de90c
TF
1256TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1257 that they are available at delivery time.
1258
e2803e40
TF
1259TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1260
7199e1ee
TF
1261TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1262 incoming_port log selectors.
1263
e276e04b
TF
1264TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1265 setting expands to an empty string.
1266
ce552449 1267NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1268 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1269
e765a0f1 1270NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1271 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1272
4f054c63 1273NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1274 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1275
7d9f747b
PP
1276NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1277 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1278
7d9f747b
PP
1279NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1280 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1281
b52bc06e 1282NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1283 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1284
447de4b0
NM
1285NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1286
4c69d561 1287NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1288 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1289
d5c39246 1290NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1291 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1292
0b23848a
TK
1293TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1294
8f3414a1 1295NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1296 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1297
fb6f955d
NM
1298NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1299
1300NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1301
7d9f747b
PP
1302NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1303 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1304
7d9f747b
PP
1305NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1306 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1307
7d9f747b
PP
1308NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1309 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1310
7d9f747b
PP
1311NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1312 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1313
7d9f747b
PP
1314NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1315 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1316
7d9f747b
PP
1317NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1318 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1319
7d9f747b
PP
1320NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1321 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1322
7d9f747b 1323NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1324 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1325
7d9f747b 1326NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1327
7d9f747b
PP
1328NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1329 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1330
7d9f747b 1331NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1332
7d9f747b 1333NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1334
7d9f747b 1335NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1336
7d9f747b 1337NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1338
17792b53 1339NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1340 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1341
7d9f747b
PP
1342NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1343 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1344
91576cec 1345NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1346 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1347
7d9f747b
PP
1348NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1349 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1350
7d9f747b 1351NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1352
7d9f747b 1353NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1354
7d9f747b 1355NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1356
7d9f747b 1357NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1358
deafd5b3 1359
47db1125
NM
1360Exim version 4.69
1361-----------------
1362
4b3504d0
TK
1363TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1364 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1365 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1366
1367 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1368 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1369 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1370 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1371 build errors in sieve.c.
1372
81ea09ca
NM
1373NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1374 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1375 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1376
f13cddcb
SC
1377SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1378
7d9f747b 1379NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1380
7d9f747b 1381NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1382
7d9f747b 1383NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1384
1385
eb4c0de6
PH
1386Exim version 4.68
1387-----------------
1388
1389PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1390
6a3bceb1
PH
1391PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1392 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1393 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1394 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1395 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1396 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1397 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1398 for iplsearch lookups.
1399
1400 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1401 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1402 previously such lookups could never work.
1403
1404 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1405 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1406 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1407
2e30fa9d
TK
1408TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1409 version.
1410
0806a9c5
MH
1411MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1412 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1413 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1414 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1415 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1416 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1417
ae276964
TK
1418TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1419 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1420
0f2cbd1b
MH
1421MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1422 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1423 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1424 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1425 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1426 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1427
2b85bce7
PH
1428PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1429 local_scan API.
1430
93655c46
PH
1431PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1432
6c512171
PH
1433PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1434 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1435 encrypted.
1436
1437PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1438 by clients under certain conditions.
1439
aa6dc513
PH
1440PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1441 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1442
a96603a0
PH
1443PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1444
8f240103
PH
1445PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1446 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1447
1448PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1449
d677b2f2
PH
1450PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1451
d52120f2
PH
1452PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1453
64f2600a
PH
1454PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1455 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1456
8669f003
PH
1457PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1458
a4dc33a8
PH
1459PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1460 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1461
d6a60c0f
PH
1462PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1463
8f128379
PH
1464PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1465
8932dffe
PH
1466PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1467 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1468 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1469 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1470
ddea74fa 1471PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1472 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1473 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1474
ddea74fa 1475PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1476 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1477
ddea74fa
PH
1478PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1479
ce9f225c
PH
1480PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1481
19897d52
PH
1482PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1483
bc64a74d
PH
1484PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1485 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1486 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1487
eb4c0de6 1488
b4ed4da0
PH
1489Exim version 4.67
1490-----------------
1491
22ad45c9
MH
1492MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1493 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1494 Jan Srzednicki.
1495
b4ed4da0
PH
1496PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1497 issue a MAIL command.
1498
431b7361
PH
1499PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1500
1501 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1502
1503 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1504 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1505 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1506 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1507 item. This has been fixed.
1508
1509PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1510 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1511
83da1223
PH
1512PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1513 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1514
54fc8428
PH
1515PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1516 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1517 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1518
34c5e8dd
SC
1519SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1520
bbe15da8
PH
1521PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1522 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1523 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1524 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1525 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1526
0e8a9471
MH
1527MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1528 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1529 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1530
f0872424
PH
1531PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1532 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1533 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1534 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1535
b01dd148
PH
1536PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1537
6bf342e1
PH
1538PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1539
273f34d0
PH
1540PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1541 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1542 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1543 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1544 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1545
cf8b11a5
PH
1546PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1547
41c7c167
PH
1548PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1549 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1550 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1551 values).
1552
9c57cbc0
PH
1553PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1554
f3f065bb
PH
1555PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1556
047bdd8c
PH
1557PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1558
0ce9abe6
PH
1559PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1560
0e22dfd1
PH
1561PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1562
4c590bd1
PH
1563PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1564 no_callout_flush is set.
1565
09945f1e
PH
1566PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1567 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1568 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1569 fixed.
1570
c51b8e75
PH
1571PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1572
e28326d8
PH
1573PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1574 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1575 other ACL rejections are.
1576
75b1493f
PH
1577PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1578 with slight modification.
1579
7c5214ec
PH
1580PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1581 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1582
4311097e
PH
1583PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1584 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1585 connection.
1586
29f89cad
PH
1587PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1588 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1589
5e687460
SC
1590SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1591
c3611384
PH
1592PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1593 expansion side effects.
1594
5a11a7b4
PH
1595PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1596 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1597 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1598 be the same.
1599
0e20aff9
MH
1600MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1601 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1602 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1603
ca86f471
PH
1604PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1605 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1606 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1607 were accidentally chopped off.
1608
a14e5636
PH
1609PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1610 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1611 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1612 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1613 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1614 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1615 pipelining has not been advertised.
1616
ec95d1a6
PH
1617PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1618
42855d71
PH
1619PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1620 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1621 This has been fixed.
1622
57c2c631
PH
1623PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1624 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1625 reported on Solaris.
1626
58c01c94
PH
1627PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1628 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1629 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1630 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1631 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1632 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1633 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1634
dee5a20a
PH
1635PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1636 cpus.
1637
d2ee6114
PH
1638PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1639
b2d5182b
PH
1640PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1641
79749a79
PH
1642PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1643 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1644 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1645 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1646 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1647 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1648
c456d9bb
PH
1649PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1650 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1651 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1652 host_all_ignored option.
1653
cd9868ec
PH
1654PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1655 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1656 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1657 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1658 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1659 is what is supposed to happen).
1660
ebeaf996
PH
1661PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1662 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1663 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1664 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1665 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1666 uses the Exim user.
1667
2679d413
PH
1668PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1669 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1670 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1671 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1672 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1673 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1674 users.
1675
84024b72
PH
1676PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1677
8005d38e
SC
1678SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1679 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1680 (Jez Hancock).
1681 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1682 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1683
3298c6c6
SC
1684SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1685
a43a27c5
PH
1686PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1687
58eb016e 1688PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1689 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1690 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1691 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1692 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1693 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1694 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1695 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1696 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1697 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1698 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1699
b43a74ea
PH
1700PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1701 advertised in response to EHLO.
1702
b4ed4da0 1703
5dd1517f
PH
1704Exim version 4.66
1705-----------------
1706
1707PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1708 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1709
1710 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1711 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1712
1713 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1714 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1715 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1716
1717 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1718 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1719 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1720 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1721 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1722
1723
93cfa765
TK
1724Exim version 4.65
1725-----------------
1726
1727TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1728 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1729 versions. (#438)
1730
d6066548
MH
1731MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1732 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1733 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1734
4362ff0d
PH
1735PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1736 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1737 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1738 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1739 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1740 rather than extend the field.
1741
93cfa765 1742
944e9e9c
TF
1743Exim version 4.64
1744-----------------
aa41d2de 1745
21d74bd9
TK
1746TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1747 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1748 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1749 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1750 these files.
1751
1752TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1753 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1754 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1755
1756TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1757 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1758 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1759
1760TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1761 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1762 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1763 in the field name.
1764
2b1c6e3a
PH
1765PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1766 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1767 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1768 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1769 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1770 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1771 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1772 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1773 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1774 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1775 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1776
1f872c80
PH
1777PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1778 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1779
1780PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1781 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1782 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1783 ignores EPIPE as well.
1784
d203e649
PH
1785PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1786 (quoted-printable decoding).
1787
cc2ed8f7 1788PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1789 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1790
ddfcd446
PH
1791PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1792
d45b1de8
PH
1793PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1794
1795PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1796
38a0a95f 1797PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1798 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1799
a2405d83
JJ
1800JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1801 in 4.64-PH/09.
1802
1803JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1804 miscellaneous code fixes
1805
6ea85e9a
PH
1806PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1807 rejections.
1808
26da7e20
PH
1809PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1810 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1811 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1812 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1813 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1814 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1815 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1816 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1817
14aa5a05 1818PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1819 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1820 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1821 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1822 function.
1823 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1824 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1825 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1826 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1827 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1828 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1829 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1830 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1831 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1832
ff75a1f7
PH
1833PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1834 decoding.
1835
e6f6568e
PH
1836PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1837 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1838 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1839 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1840 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1841 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1842 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1843 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1844
d6f6e0dc
PH
1845PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1846 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1847 list.
1848
322050c2
PH
1849PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1850 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1851 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1852 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1853 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1854 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1855 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1856 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1857 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1858 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1859 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1860 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1861 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1862
08955dd3
PH
1863PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1864 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1865 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1866 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1867 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1868 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1869 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1870
1eccaa59
PH
1871PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1872 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1873 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1874 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1875 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1876 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1877 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1878 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1879 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1880 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1881
602e59e5
PH
1882PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1883 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1884 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1885 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1886 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1887
411ef850
PH
1888PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1889 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1890 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1891 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1892 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1893 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1894 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1895
7befa435
PH
1896PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1897 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1898 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1899 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1900 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1901 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1902 been verified.
1903
48da4259 1904PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1905 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1906 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1907 and authorization.)
1908
48da4259
PH
1909PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1910 if any retry times were supplied.
1911
d1d5595c
PH
1912PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1913 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1914 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1915
0ef732d9
PH
1916PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1917
328895cc
PH
1918PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1919
fd700877
PH
1920PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1921 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1922 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1923 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1924 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1925 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1926
8dce1a6f
PH
1927PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1928 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1929
17af4a17
PH
1930PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1931 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1932 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1933
1934PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1935 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1936 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1937 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1938 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1939 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1940 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1941 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1942 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1943
1944 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1945 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1946 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1947 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1948 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1949 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1950 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1951 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1952 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1953
1954 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1955 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1956 hammering the server.
1957
c1114884
PH
1958PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1959 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1960
7a0743eb
PH
1961PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1962
0d85fa3f
PH
1963PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1964 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1965 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1966
1bf43b78
PH
1967PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1968 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1969 one case where this was not true.
1970
520de300
PH
1971PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1972 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1973 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1974 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1975 fails.
1976
48c7f9e2
PH
1977PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1978 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1979 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1980 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1981 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1982 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1983 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1984 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1985 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1986 smtp transport.
1987
99ea1c86
PH
1988PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1989 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1990 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1991 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1992
a2042e78
PH
1993PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1994 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1995
4fbcfc2e
PH
1996PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1997 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1998 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1999
aa41d2de
PH
2000PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2001
af561417
PH
2002PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2003
3cc66b45
PH
2004PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2005
194cc0e4
PH
2006PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2007 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2008 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2009 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2010
a401ddaa
PH
2011PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2012 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2013
4e88a19f
PH
2014PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2015 be meaningful with "accept".
2016
d7d7b289
SC
2017SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2018 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2019
2020SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2021 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2022 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2023
2024SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2025 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2026 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2027 there is data to show.
2028 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2029
2030SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2031 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2032 as well as the number of messages.
2033
2034SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2035 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2036 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2037
2038SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2039 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2040 have a flag are now skipped.
2041
2042SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2043 Added the -emptyok flag.
2044
2045SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2046 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2047
0ea2a468
JJ
2048JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2049 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
2050 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
2051
2052JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2053 match 4.64-PH/13
2054
2055JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2056 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2057
2058JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2059
2060JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2061 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2062
8a10f5a4
PH
2063PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2064
30e18802
PH
2065PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2066 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2067 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
2068 contravention of the specifications.
2069
55728a4f
PH
2070PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
2071 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
2072 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 2073
d7837193
PH
2074PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
2075 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
2076 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
2077
87054a31
PH
2078PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
2079
ea2c01d2
MH
2080MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
2081 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
2082 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
2083 some point in the past.
2084
e4fa6968
PH
2085PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
2086 transport during callout processing was broken.
2087
56f5d9bd
PH
2088PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
2089 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
2090
922e1c28
PH
2091PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
2092 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
2093
21eb6e72
PH
2094PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
2095 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
2096
a0540757
PH
2097PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
2098
944e9e9c 2099
478be7b0
SC
2100Exim version 4.63
2101-----------------
2102
2103SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
2104 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2105
2106SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
2107 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
2108 there is data to show.
2109 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
2110
2111SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
2112 as the number of messages in eximstats.
2113
2b965a65
TF
2114TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
2115 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 2116
45b91596
PH
2117TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
2118 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 2119
c59f5781
TF
2120TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
2121 submissions from trusted users.
2122
90fc3069
TF
2123TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
2124 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
2125
6083aca0
TF
2126TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
2127 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
2128 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
2129 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
2130 there is now a framework to start from.
2131
765b530f
PH
2132PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
2133 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
2134 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
2135
4e167a8c
PH
2136PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
2137
4608d683
PH
2138PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
2139
b8dc3e4a
PH
2140PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
2141
5418e93b
PH
2142PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
2143 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
2144 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
2145
b4a9bda2
PH
2146PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
2147 libradius.
2148
45b91596
PH
2149PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2150 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2151 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2152
5547e2c5
PH
2153PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2154 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2155 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2156 its arguments.
2157
dbcef0ea
PH
2158PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2159 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2160 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2161 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2162 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2163
25257489
PH
2164PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2165 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2166
c816d124
PH
2167PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2168
a9ccd69a
PH
2169PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2170 operations in malware.c.
2171
75fa1910
PH
2172PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2173 signatures.
2174
a7d7aa58
PH
2175PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2176 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2177 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2178 all.
2179
42119b09
PH
2180PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2181 statements to "add_header".
2182
41609df5
PH
2183PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2184 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2185
a5bd321b
PH
2186PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2187 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2188 latter.
2189
e85a7ad5 2190PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2191 so that it is now:
2192
e85a7ad5
PH
2193 ${if or { \
2194 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2195 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2196 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2197 }{no}{yes}}
2198
e85a7ad5
PH
2199 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2200 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2201
d8fe1c03
PH
2202PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2203 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2204
16282d2b
PH
2205PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2206 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2207 any possible encoding problems.
2208
35d40a98
PH
2209PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2210 but not after initializing Perl.
2211
034d99ab
PH
2212PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2213 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2214 apparently, which is not desirable.
2215
6ec97b1b
PH
2216PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2217 queries.
2218
e22ca4ac
JJ
2219JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2220 --not options
2221
2222JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2223
33d73e3b
PH
2224PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2225 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2226 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2227 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2228
9ecb03f3
PH
2229PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2230 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2231 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2232
084efe8d
PH
2233PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2234 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2235 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2236 0.12.
2237
366fc9f0
PH
2238PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2239 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2240 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2241 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2242 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2243
c59f5781 2244
c887c79e
TF
2245Exim version 4.62
2246-----------------
2247
2248TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2249 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2250
1cce3af8
PH
2251PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2252 patch).
2253
afb3eaaf
PH
2254PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2255 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2256 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2257 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2258 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2259 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2260 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2261 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2262 451 error is used.
2263
e173618b
PH
2264PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2265
dd16e114
PH
2266PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2267 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2268 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2269
f7fd3850
PH
2270PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2271 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2272 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2273 odd errors.
2274
d87df92c
PH
2275PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2276 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2277
7e9f683d
PH
2278PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2279 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2280 option (which defaults to 0600).
2281
bfad5236
PH
2282PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2283
01c490df
PH
2284PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2285 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2286 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2287 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2288 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2289 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2290 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2291
d6629cdc
PH
2292PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2293
1cce3af8 2294
214e2000
PH
2295Exim version 4.61
2296-----------------
2297
2298PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2299 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2300 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2301 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2302 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2303 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2304 addresses as local.
2305
f9daeae0
PH
2306PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2307 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2308
7e66e54d
PH
2309PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2310
c8ea1597
PH
2311PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2312 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2313 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2314 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2315 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2316 grumble.
2317
911f6fde
PH
2318PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2319 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2320
47ca6d6c
PH
2321PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2322 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2323 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2324 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2325 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2326
ed0e9820
PH
2327PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2328 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2329 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2330 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2331
eff37e47
PH
2332PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2333 be the same on different OS.
2334
1921d2ea
PH
2335PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2336 testing.
2337
b3f69ca8
JJ
2338JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2339 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2340
2341JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2342 in 4.61-PH/06
2343
424a1c63
PH
2344PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2345 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2346 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2347 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2348 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2349 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2350 bounce message.
2351
7a100415
PH
2352PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2353 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2354 when Exim was called.
2355
19b9dc85
PH
2356PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2357 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2358
309bd837
PH
2359PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2360 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2361 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2362 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2363
59e82a2a
PH
2364PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2365 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2366 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2367 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2368 changes:
2369
2370 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2371 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2372 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2373
2374 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2375 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2376 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2377
9edc04ce
PH
2378PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2379 feature).
2380
1349e1e5
PH
2381PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2382 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2383 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2384 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2385 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2386 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2387 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2388 values from the SRV records were lost.
2389
ea49d0e1
PH
2390PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2391 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2392 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2393
064a94c9
PH
2394PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2395 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2396 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2397
727071f8
PH
2398PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2399 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2400 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2401 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2402 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2403 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2404 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2405 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2406 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2407 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2408
f78eb7c6
PH
2409PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2410 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2411 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2412
21c28500
PH
2413PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2414 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2415
2416PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2417 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2418 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2419 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2420 is given.
2421
1688f43b
PH
2422PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2423 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2424 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2425
2426PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2427 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2428 PH/23 above applies.
2429
9675b384
PH
2430PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2431 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2432 (for which there is an explicit test).
2433
6a3f1455
PH
2434PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2435
dac79d3e
PH
2436PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2437 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2438 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2439 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2440 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2441
5977a0b3
PH
2442PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2443 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2444 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2445 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2446
c91535f3
PH
2447PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2448 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2449 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2450
0d46a8c8
PH
2451PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2452
278c6e6c
PH
2453PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2454
2cbb4081
PH
2455PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2456 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2457 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2458
3eef829e
PH
2459PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2460 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2461 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2462 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2463 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2464
1ab95fa6
PH
2465PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2466 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2467 the message gets confusing).
2468
230205fc
PH
2469PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2470 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2471 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2472 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2473
75e0e026
PH
2474PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2475 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2476 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2477 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2478 same order.
2479
2480PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2481 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2482 the different processes.
2483
145396a6
PH
2484PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2485
3cd34f13
PH
2486PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2487
11121d3d
JJ
2488JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2489 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2490
2491JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2492 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2493
2494JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2495 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2496 messages matching specified criteria.
2497
8def5aaf
PH
2498PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2499
929ba01c
PH
2500PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2501 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2502
2632889e
PH
2503PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2504 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2505 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2506 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2507 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2508 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2509 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2510 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2511 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2512 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2513
944a9c55
PH
2514PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2515 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2516 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2517
4a23603b
PH
2518PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2519
4730f942
PH
2520PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2521 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2522 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2523 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2524 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2525 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2526 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2527 the variable.
2528
30dba1e6
PH
2529PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2530 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2531
382afc6b
PH
2532PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2533
a86229cf
PH
2534PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2535
50c99ba6
PH
2536PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2537
d35e429d
PH
2538PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2539 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2540 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2541 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2542 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2543 size of the count of files.
2544
f90d018c
PH
2545PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2546
75def545
PH
2547PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2548 used in LMTP mode:
2549
2550 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2551 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2552 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2553 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2554
2555 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2556 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2557 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2558
2559PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2560 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2561 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2562 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2563 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2564
c46782ef
PH
2565PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2566 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2567
71fafd95
PH
2568PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2569 will now be deprecated.
2570
2c5db4fd
PH
2571PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2572
9cf6b11a
JJ
2573JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2574 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2575 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2576
2577JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2578 with very large, slow to parse queues
2579
2580JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2581
2582JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2583
898d150f
PH
2584PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2585 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2586 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2587 SMTP output lines.
2588
46218253
PH
2589PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2590 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2591 Sieve code now uses this.
2592
e97957bc
PH
2593PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2594 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2595
81e509d7
PH
2596PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2597 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2598
3d240ff7
PH
2599PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2600
b37c4101
PH
2601PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2602 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2603 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2604 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2605 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2606
79378e0f
PH
2607PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2608 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2609 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2610 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2611
e49c7bb4
PH
2612PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2613
d114ec46
PH
2614PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2615
f3d7df6c
PH
2616PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2617 is preferred over IPv4.
2618
715ab376
PH
2619PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2620 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2621 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2622 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2623 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2624 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2625 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2626
6b31b150
PH
2627PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2628 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2629 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2630
2631PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2632
d515a917
PH
2633PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2634 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2635 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2636 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2637 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2638 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2639 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2640 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2641 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2642 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2643 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2644
9b8fadde
PH
2645PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2646 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2647 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2648
214e2000 2649
5de37277
PH
2650Exim version 4.60
2651-----------------
2652
cc38ddbf
PH
2653PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2654
2655 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2656 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2657
2658 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2659 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2660 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2661
72fdd6ae
PH
2662PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2663
2664 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2665 not a single digit.
2666
2667 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2668 string.
2669
2670 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2671 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2672 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2673 silly things.
2674
2675 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2676 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2677
2678 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2679 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2680
cb741023
PH
2681PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2682 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2683 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2684
f174f16e
PH
2685PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2686 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2687
c25242d7
PH
2688PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2689 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2690
2691 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2692
2693 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2694 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2695 this:
2696
2697 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2698
82c19f95
PH
2699PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2700 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2701 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2702 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2703 identical. For example:
2704
2705 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2706
2707 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2708 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2709 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2710
d7ffbc12
PH
2711PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2712 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2713 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2714 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2715
9f526266
PH
2716PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2717 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2718 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2719 message.
2720
87fcc8b9
PH
2721PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2722
2723 o fixes some comments
2724 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2725 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2726 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2727 and documents the missing references header update
2728
2729 and most important:
2730
2731 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2732 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2733 result)
2734
456682f5
PH
2735PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2736 Electronic Mail") by including:
2737
2738 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2739
2740 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2741 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2742 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2743 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2744 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2745
2746 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2747
2748 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2749
2750 The auto-replied keyword:
2751
2752 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2753 message by an automatic process,
2754
2755 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2756
2757 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2758 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2759
2760 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2761 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2762 other messages.
2763
3e46c1aa
PH
2764PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2765 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2766
49826d12
PH
2767PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2768
eba0c039
PH
2769PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2770 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2771 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2772
a0d6ba8a
PH
2773PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2774 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2775 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2776
f0917727
PH
2777PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2778 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2779 and treats the condition as false.
2780
096fee00
PH
2781PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2782
024bd3c2
PH
2783PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2784 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2785 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2786 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2787 not changing the active code.
2788
2789 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2790 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2791
2792 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2793 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2794
df199fec
PH
2795PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2796 (Bugzilla #53).
2797
d27f1df3
PH
2798PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2799 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2800 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2801 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2802 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2803 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2804 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2805 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2806 the text comparison.
2807
96776534
PH
2808PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2809 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2810 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2811 The same fix has been applied.
2812
5de37277 2813
9a799bc0
PH
2814Exim version 4.54
2815-----------------
2816
2817PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2818 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2819 It now does.
2820
99a4b039
PH
2821PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2822 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2823
2824PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2825
4b233853
PH
2826PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2827 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2828 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2829 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2830 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2831
8857ccfd
PH
2832TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2833 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2834 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2835 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2836 or /domain=).
2837
433a2980
PH
2838PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2839 testing suite.
2840
3e46c1aa 2841
9a799bc0 2842
e3a311ba
TK
2843Exim version 4.53
2844-----------------
2845
2846TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2847 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2848
13b685f9
PH
2849PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2850
395ff96d
PH
2851PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2852
5b68f6e4
PH
2853PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2854 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2855 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2856
1ab52c69
PH
2857PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2858 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2859 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2860
b07e6aa3
PH
2861PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2862 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2863 operating systems.
2864
254e032f
PH
2865PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2866 ${stat: expansion item.
2867
3af76a81
PH
2868PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2869 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2870
2548ba04
PH
2871PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2872 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2873 file for comments.
2874
b6c6011d
PH
2875PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2876
cf39cf57
PH
2877PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2878 setting.
2879
f1513293
PH
2880PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2881 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2882
727549a4
PH
2883TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2884
af46795e
PH
2885PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2886 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2887 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2888 the end of the subprocess.
2889
d7b47fd0
PH
2890PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2891 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2892 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2893 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2894 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2895
ee744174
JJ
2896JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2897
b582ab87
PH
2898TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2899
41a13e0a
PH
2900PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2901 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2902
f625cc5a
PH
2903PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2904
2905PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2906
21f7af35
PH
2907PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2908 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2909 HP-UX compiler.
2910
31480e42
PH
2911PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2912
2d280592
PH
2913PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2914 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2915 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2916
7cd1141b
PH
2917PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2918 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2919
2920PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2921 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2922
750af86e
PH
2923PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2924 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2925
2926 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2927 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2928
2929 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2930 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2931 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2932 contributed by a Radius user.
2933
2934PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2935 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2936
4304270b
TK
2937TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2938 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2939
750af86e
PH
2940PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2941 available.
2942
64ffc24f
PH
2943PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2944 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2945 received.
2946
5dd9625b
PH
2947PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2948 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2949 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2950 header lines when this was not necessary.
2951
5591031b
PH
2952PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2953
ba18e66a
PH
2954PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2955 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2956 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2957 exists".
2958
9cec981f
PH
2959PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2960 -bV or -d is used.
2961
aa2b5c79
PH
2962PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2963 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2964 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2965 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2966
48a53b7f
PH
2967PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2968
1c59d63b
PH
2969PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2970
671012da
TK
2971TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2972
1509d3a8
PH
2973PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2974
2975PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2976 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2977 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2978 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2979 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2980 settings.
2981
2982PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2983
2fe1a124
PH
2984PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2985 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2986 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2987 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2988 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2989 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2990 which is clearly wrong.
2991
8800895a
PH
2992PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2993
ccfdb010
PH
2994PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2995 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2996 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2997 subsequently added.
2998
1130bfb0
PH
2999PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3000 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3001
ebcb507f
PH
3002PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3003
c35e155c
PH
3004PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3005 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3006
95d1f782
PH
3007PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3008 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3009
fd6de02e
PH
3010PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3011 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3012
58de37c5
PH
3013PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3014 recipients, not senders.
3015
261cf466
TF
3016TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3017 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3018
3ee512ff
PH
3019PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3020
e08c430f
PH
3021PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3022
bef5a11f
PH
3023PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3024 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3025 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3026 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3027
7546de58
TF
3028TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3029
e5d5a95f
TF
3030TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3031 clock is set back in time.
3032
2e88a017
TF
3033TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3034 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3035
a5f65aa4
TF
3036TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3037 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3038
e7726cbf
PH
3039PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3040 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3041 (see PH/47 above).
3042
a7fdad5b
TF
3043TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3044 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3045 header rewrites.
3046
6af56900
PH
3047PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3048 type ("H").
3049
0925ede6
PH
3050PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3051
66afa403
TF
3052TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3053 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3054 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3055
0154e85a
TF
3056TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3057 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3058 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3059 helo verification defer as a failure.
3060
16f12c76
PH
3061PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3062 actual error message.
3063
bbe902f0 3064
e5a9dba6
PH
3065Exim version 4.52
3066-----------------
3067
3068TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
3069
22c3b60b
PH
3070PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
3071 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
3072 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
3073 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
3074
06a9b4b5
PH
3075TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
3076
c1ac6996
PH
3077PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
3078 can still be requested.
3079
9c7a242c
PH
3080PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
3081 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
3082 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
3083 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
3084
87ba3f5f
PH
3085TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
3086 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
3087 circumstances, but probably never did.
3088
3089PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
3090 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
3091 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
3092 in the header line.
3093
29aba418
TF
3094TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
3095
fe0dab11
TF
3096TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
3097 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 3098
11d337a4
TK
3099TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
3100
3101TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
3102
415c8f3b
PH
3103PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
3104 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
3105 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
3106 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
3107 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
3108 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 3109
958541e9
PH
3110PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
3111 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
3112 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
3113 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
3114 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
3115 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
3116
c206415f
TK
3117TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
3118 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
3119
2a4be8f9
PH
3120PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
3121 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
3122
1cba11c5
SC
3123SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
3124 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
3125
3126SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
3127
3128SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
3129
3130SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
3131
3132SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
3133
3134SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
3135
3136SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
3137
1005d00e
TK
3138TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
3139
3140TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
3141 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
3142 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
3143
3144TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
3145 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
3146 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
3147 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
3148
9b4768fa
PH
3149PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3150 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3151 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3152
3153PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3154 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3155 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3156 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3157
0d7eb84a
PH
3158PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3159 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3160 to be made).
3161
3162PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3163 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3164 should work with maildirs and everything.
3165
40727bee
TK
3166TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3167 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3168
554d2369
TF
3169TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3170 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3171
1f922db1
PH
3172PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3173 function for BDB 4.3.
3174
ef213c3b
PH
3175PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3176
8ac170f3
PH
3177PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3178 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3179 involved.
3180
b1c749bb
PH
3181PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3182 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3183 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3184 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3185 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3186 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3187
4aac9b49
PH
3188PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3189 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3190 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3191 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3192 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3193 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3194 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3195 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3196
294520c8
TK
3197TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3198 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3199 details.
3200
5bd022fe
PH
3201PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3202 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3203
90e9ce59
PH
3204PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3205 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3206 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3207 test. It is now used for both.
3208
5ea81592
PH
3209PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3210 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3211 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3212 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3213 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3214 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3215
c6c2dc1d
PH
3216PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3217 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3218 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3219 string_vformat().
3220
fffffe4c
PH
3221PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3222 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3223 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3224
9a26b6b2
PH
3225PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3226 experimental DomainKeys support:
3227
3228 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3229 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3230 the control was given.
3231
3232 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3233
4aee0225
PH
3234PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3235
32d668a5
PH
3236PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3237
8187c3f3
PH
3238PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3239 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3240 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3241 db.h files).
3242
ff790e47 3243PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3244 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3245 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3246 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3247 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3248 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3249 course.
ff790e47 3250
5417f6d1
PH
3251PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3252 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3253 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3254 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3255 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3256 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3257
59cf8544
PH
3258PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3259 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3260 do -d+all out of habit.
3261
e7ad8a65
PH
3262PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3263 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3264 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3265
ade42478
PH
3266PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3267 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3268 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3269 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3270 record types that Exim uses.
3271
182ad5cf
PH
3272PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3273 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3274 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3275 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3276 non-existent file that was broken.
3277
b0d9fc80
TK
3278TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3279 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3280
3281TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3282 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3283 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3284
3285TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3286
47c7a64a
PH
3287PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3288 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3289 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3290 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3291 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3292 same time.
3293
a388bce4
SC
3294SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3295 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3296 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3297 at a slight CPU cost.
3298
3299SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3300 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3301
3302SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3303 by Marc Sherman.
3304
0793e4ed
SC
3305SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3306
c58b88df
PH
3307PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3308 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3309
e7ad8a65 3310
7982096b
PH
3311Exim version 4.51
3312-----------------
3313
1a46a8c5
PH
3314TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3315 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3316
2f079f46 3317TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3318
3319TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3320
3321PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3322 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3323
3324PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3325 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3326 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3327 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3328 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3329 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3330 file.
3331
3332PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3333 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3334 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3335 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3336 these two options.
3337
3338PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3339 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3340 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3341 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3342 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3343 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3344 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3345 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3346
3347PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3348 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3349
3350PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3351 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3352 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3353 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3354 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3355 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3356
3357PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3358 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3359 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3360 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3361
3362PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3363 Finch).
3364
3365PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3366 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3367
49c2d5ea
PH
3368PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3369 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3370 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3371 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3372 message.
49c2d5ea 3373
bf759a8b
PH
3374PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3375
83364d30
PH
3376PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3377 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3378
7999bbd7
PH
3379PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3380 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3381 to what was transported.)
3382
7dbf77c9
PH
3383TF/01 Added $received_time.
3384
74e0617f
PH
3385PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3386 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3387 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3388 spamd_address settings.
3389
2f079f46
PH
3390PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3391 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3392 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3393 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3394 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3395
8c841523
PH
3396PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3397
7766a4f0
PH
3398PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3399 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3400 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3401 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3402 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3403
8b417f2c
PH
3404PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3405 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3406
901f42cb
PH
3407PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3408 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3409 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3410 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3411 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3412 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3413 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3414 for failure.
3415
f9b9210e
PH
3416PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3417 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3418 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3419 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3420 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3421 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3422 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3423 "input=".
3424
54cdb463
PH
3425PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3426
cf00dad6
PH
3427PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3428 driver and ACL definitions.
3429
acb1b346
PH
3430PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3431 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3432
c5ddb310
PH
3433PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3434 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3435 understands it better than I do:
3436
3437 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3438 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3439
3440 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3441 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3442 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3443 => three warnings about OTP not working
3444 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3445
3446 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3447 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3448 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3449 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3450 for each call.)
3451 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3452 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3453
3454 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3455 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3456 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3457
31619da6
PH
3458PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3459 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3460 specified.
3461
bebaf0fc
PH
3462PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3463 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3464 "Linux".
3465
475fe28a
PH
3466PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3467 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3468 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3469
3470 warn !verify = sender
3471 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3472
3473 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3474 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3475
7e8bec7a
PH
3476PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3477
3478 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3479 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3480
3481 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3482 nomenclature these days.)
3483
e4a89c47
PH
3484PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3485 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3486
5ca2a9a1
PH
3487PH/30 In these circumstances:
3488 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3489 . First host does not offer TLS;
3490 . First host accepts first address;
3491 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3492 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3493 . Second host accepts second address.
3494 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3495 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3496 address.
7e8bec7a 3497
c688b954
PH
3498PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3499 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3500 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3501 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3502 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3503
fed77020
PH
3504PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3505 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3506
7fe1560f
PH
3507PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3508 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3509
ebb6e6d5
PH
3510PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3511 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3512 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3513
9c4e8f60
PH
3514PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3515 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3516 overlooked.
3517
3518PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3519
d7174846
PH
3520PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3521 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3522 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3523 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3524 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3525 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3526 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3527
3528 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3529 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3530 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3531 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3532 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3533
3534 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3535 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3536 routed further.
3537
cfe75fc3
PH
3538PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3539 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3540 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3541 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3542 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3543 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3544
be22d70e
PH
3545PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3546
0612b098
PH
3547PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3548 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3549 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3550 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3551 printable escape sequences.
3552
2e0c1448
PH
3553PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3554 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3555 body only.
3556
447d236c
PH
3557PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3558 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3559 are as follows:
3560
3561 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3562 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3563 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3564 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3565 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3566
3567 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3568 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3569 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3570
d20976dc
PH
3571PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3572
f656d135
PH
3573PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3574 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3575 play with."
3576
2e2a30b4
PH
3577PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3578 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3579 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3580 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3581 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3582 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3583 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3584 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3585 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3586 the log output.
3587
9176e9f0
PH
3588PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3589 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3590 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3591 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3592 "make".
3593
7982096b 3594
bbe902f0
PH
3595A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3596----------------------------------------
3597
3598Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3599changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3600needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3601in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3602that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3603release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3604from 4.43.
3605
3606I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
36074.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3608those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3609historical information.
3610
3611
f7b63901 3612Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3613-----------------
3614
5fe762f6
PH
3615 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3616
139059f6 3617 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3618 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3619
7086e875
PH
3620 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3621 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3622 place.
3623
35af9f61
PH
3624 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3625 filter fails to execute.
3626
b668c215
PH
3627 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3628 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3629 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3630 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3631 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3632
a494b1e1
PH
3633 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3634
3635 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3636 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3637 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3638 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3639
c5fcb476
PH
3640 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3641 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3642 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3643 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3644 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3645
69358f02
PH
3646 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3647
5be20824
PH
364810. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3649
eb2c0248
PH
365011. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3651 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3652 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3653 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3654
2a3eea10
PH
365512. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3656 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3657 sender verification.
3658
365913. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3660 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3661
23c7ff99
PH
366214. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3663
4deaf07d
PH
366415. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3665 connection timeout.
3666
926e1192
PH
366716. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3668 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3669
650edc6f
PH
367017. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3671 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3672
2c7db3f5
PH
367318. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3674 information about exactly what failed.
3675
3d235903
PH
367619. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3677
7c7ad977
PH
367820. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3679 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3680 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3681
981756db
PH
368221. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3683 It is now set to "smtps".
3684
d4eb88df
PH
368522. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3686 ignore_target_hosts.
3687
368823. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3689 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3690 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3691 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3692 "[x.x.x.x]".
3693
7d468ab8
PH
369424. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3695 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3696 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3697
369825. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3699 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3700 wake it up if nothing else does.
3701
62c0818f
PH
370226. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3703 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3704 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3705 end up negative.
3706
26034054
PH
370727. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3708 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3709
af66f652
PH
371028. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3711
90af77f4
PH
371229. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3713 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3714 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3715 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3716 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3717 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3718 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3719 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3720
d8ef3577
PH
372130. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3722 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3723 than one IP address.
3724
5cb8cbc6
PH
372531. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3726 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3727 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3728 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3729
14702f5b
PH
373032. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3731 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3732 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3733 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3734 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3735 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3736
063b1e99
PH
373733. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3738 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3739 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3740 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3741
652e1b65
PH
374234. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3743 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3744 respected.
3745
6f0c9a4f
PH
374635. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3747 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3748 $sender_host_address.
3749
33397d19
PH
375036. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3751 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3752 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3753 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3754 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3755 very small.
3756
7bb56e1f
PH
375737. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3758
3759 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3760 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3761
ea3bc19b
PH
3762 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3763 just the host names, not the priorities.
3764
3765 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3766 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3767 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3768
ea3bc19b 3769 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3770 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3771
0bcb2a0e
PH
377238. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3773 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3774 domain.
3775
2ac0e484
PH
377639. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3777
4e1fde53
PH
377840. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3779 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3780
de365ded
PH
378141. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3782 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3783 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3784
f05da2e8
PH
378542. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3786
d6453af2
PH
378743. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3788
f7b63901
PH
378944. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3790
379145. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3792 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3793 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3794 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3795 because the tests only now provoked it.
3796
a444213a
PH
379746. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3798 (this can affect the format of dates).
3799
0ec020ea
PH
380047. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3801 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3802 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3803 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3804
b1206957
PH
380548. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3806
380749. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3808 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3809 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3810 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3811
26dd5a95
PH
381250. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3813 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3814 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3815
343b2385
PH
381651. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3817 autoreply.
3818
1c5466b9
PH
381952. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3820 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3821 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3822 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3823 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3824 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3825 is going on).
3826
55ee9ee3
PH
382753. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3828 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3829 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3830 the line.
3831
d38f8232
PH
383254. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3833 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3834 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3835
3836 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3837 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3838 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3839 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3840 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3841 so I produce this patch..."
3842
3295e65b
PH
3843 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3844 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3845 is not defined.
3846
7102e136
PH
384755. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3848 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3849 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3850 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3851 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3852
3ca0ba97
PH
385356. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3854
c2bcbe20
PH
385557. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3856 long debug lines gets shown.
3857
18ce445d
PH
385858. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3859 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3860
1f5b4c3d
PH
386159. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3862
3863 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3864 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3865 of $primary_hostname.
3866
b975ba52
PH
386760. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3868 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3869 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3870 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3871 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3872 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3873 by change 4.50/55 above.
3874
3875 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3876 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3877 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3878 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3879 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3880 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3881 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3882
388361. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3884 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3885 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3886 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3887
17ffcae7
PH
388862. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3889 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3890
d95f9fdb
PH
389163. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3892 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3893 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3894 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3895 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3896
86b8287f
PH
389764. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3898 This has been fixed.
3899
60dc5e56
PH
390065. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3901 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3902 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3903 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3904 the caching.)
3905
533244af
PH
390666. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3907
a5a28604
PH
390867. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3909 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3910 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3911 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3912
7e634d24
PH
391368. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3914 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3915
3e11c26b
PH
391669. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3917 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3918 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3919
6729cf78
PH
392070. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3921 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3922 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3923 message there.
3924
00f00ca5
PH
392571. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3926 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3927 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3928
c9bdd01c
PH
392972. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3930 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3931 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3932 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3933
d43194df
PH
393473. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3935 during host lookups.
3936
fe5b5d0b
PH
393774. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3938 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3939
3940 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3941
76a2d7ba
PH
394275. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3943 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3944 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3945 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3946 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3947 background.
3948
394976. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3950 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3951
04f7d5b9
PH
395277. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3953 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3954 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3955
bc60667e
PH
395678. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3957
bb6e88ff
PH
395879. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3959 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3960 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3961 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3962 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3963 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3964 process earlier.
3965
1e70f85b
PH
396680. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3967 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3968 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3969 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3970 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3971
397281. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3973 tables).
3974
4e01f9d6
PH
397582. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3976
1ee1cef2
PH
397783. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3978 "vacation" handling.
3979
6e2b4ccc
PH
398084. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3981 OS variants using glibc.
3982
8e669ac1
PH
398385. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3984
495ae4b0 3985
bbe902f0
PH
3986----------------------------------------------------
3987See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3988----------------------------------------------------
3989
3990
3991Exim version 4.44
3992-----------------
3993
3994 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3995 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3996 transport
3997
3998 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3999 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4000 place.
4001
4002 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4003 filter fails to execute.
4004
4005 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4006 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4007 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4008 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4009 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4010
4011 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4012 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4013 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4014 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4015
4016 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4017 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4018 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4019 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4020 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4021
4022 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4023
4024 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4025 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4026 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4027 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4028
4029 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4030 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4031 sender verification.
4032
403310. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4034 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4035
403611. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4037 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4038
403912. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4040 ignore_target_hosts.
4041
404213. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4043 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4044 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4045 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4046 "[x.x.x.x]".
4047
404814. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4049 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4050 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4051
405215. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4053 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4054 wake it up if nothing else does.
4055
405616. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4057 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4058 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4059 end up negative.
4060
406117. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4062 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4063
ea3a6f44 406418. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4065
406619. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4067 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
4068 empty pattern.
4069
407020. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
4071 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
4072 one IP address.
4073
ea3a6f44
NM
407421. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4075 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4076 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4077 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4078 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4079 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 4080
ea3a6f44
NM
408122. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4082 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4083 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
4084
408523. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4086 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4087 $sender_host_address.
4088
408924. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
4090
ea3a6f44
NM
409125. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4092 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4093 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
4094
409526. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 4096 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 4097
ea3a6f44
NM
409827. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4099 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 4100
ea3a6f44
NM
410128. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4102 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4103 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4104 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
4105
410629. eximstats updated to version 1.35
4107 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
4108 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
4109
ea3a6f44
NM
411030. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4111 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4112 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4113 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 4114
ea3a6f44
NM
411531. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4116 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4117 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 4118
ea3a6f44
NM
411931. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4120 autoreply.
bbe902f0 4121
ea3a6f44
NM
412232. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4123 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4124 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4125 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4126 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4127 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4128 is going on).
bbe902f0 4129
ea3a6f44
NM
413033. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4131 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
4132 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4133 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
4134 CAN-2005-0021
4135
ea3a6f44
NM
413634. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4137 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4138 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4139 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
4140 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4141 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4142 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
4143
4144 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4145 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4146 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4147 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4148 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4149 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4150 CAN-2005-0021
4151
ea3a6f44
NM
415235. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4153 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4154 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4155 CAN-2005-0022
4156
ea3a6f44
NM
415736. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4158 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4159 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4160 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4161 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4162
ea3a6f44
NM
416337. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4164 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4165 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4166 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4167 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4168
ea3a6f44
NM
416938. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4170 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4171 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4172 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4173 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4174
4175
495ae4b0
PH
4176Exim version 4.43
4177-----------------
4178
4179 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4180 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4181 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4182 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4183 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4184 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4185 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4186
4187 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4188 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4189 the delivery.
4190
4191 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4192
4193 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4194
4195 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4196 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4197 to local_scan().
4198
4199 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4200 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4201 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4202 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4203 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4204
4205 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4206 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4207
4208 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4209
4210 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4211
421210. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4213 header_sender only.
4214
421511. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4216 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4217
421812. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4219 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4220 affecting debugging statements).
4221
422213. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4223
422414. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4225 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4226 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4227 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4228 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4229 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4230 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4231 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4232 after the received time, and all would be well.
4233
423415. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4235 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4236 condition in an expansion string.
4237
423816. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4239
424017. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4241 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4242 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4243 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4244 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4245 job under whatever limits there are.
4246
424718. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4248
424919. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4250 space).
4251
425220. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4253 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4254 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4255 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4256 return path is set.
4257
425821. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4259 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4260 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4261 binary data in such strings.
4262
426322. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4264
426523. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4266 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4267 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4268 failure, which is pointless.
4269
427024. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4271
427225. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4273
427426. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4275 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4276 Sender: header lines.
4277
427827. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4279 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4280 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4281
428228. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4283 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4284 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4285 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4286 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4287 happens.
4288
428929. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4290 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4291 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4292 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4293 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4294
429530. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4296 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4297 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4298 1024.
4299
430031. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4301 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4302
430332. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4304 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4305
430633. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4307
430832. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4309
431033. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4311
431234. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4313 syntax error.
4314
431535. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4316
431736. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4318
431937. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4320 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4321 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4322 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4323
432438. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4325 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4326
4327
4328Exim version 4.42
4329-----------------
4330
4331 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4332 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4333 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4334 it was not quoted.
4335 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4336 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4337 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4338 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4339 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4340 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4341
4342 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4343 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4344 verification failure".
4345
4346 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4347 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4348 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4349 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4350
4351 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4352 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4353 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4354 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4355 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4356 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4357 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4358 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4359 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4360 treated as a timeout.
4361
4362 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4363 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4364 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4365 not set for Exim filters).
4366
4367 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4368 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4369 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4370
4371 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4372
4373 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4374 try to make them clearer.
4375
4376 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4377 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4378
4379 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4380
4381 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4382
438310. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4384 only the Cygwin environment.
4385
438611. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4387 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4388 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4389 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4390 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4391
439212. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4393 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4394 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4395 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4396 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4397 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4398 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4399
440013. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4401 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4402
440314. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4404
4405 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4406 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4407 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4408
4409 To: susanne@some.where
4410
4411 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4412 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4413 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4414 of addresses in From: header lines).
4415
4416 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4417 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4418 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4419
4420 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4421 treated as non-personal.
4422
4423 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4424 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4425
442615. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4427
442816. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4429
443017. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4431 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4432 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4433
443418. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4435 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4436
443719. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4438 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4439 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4440 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4441 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4442 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4443
444420. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4445 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4446 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4447 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4448 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4449 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4450 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4451 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4452
4453 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4454
445521. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4456 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4457
445822. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4459 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4460 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4461
446223. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4463 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4464
446524. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4466 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4467 rather than long int.
4468
446925. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4470
447126. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4472
4473
4474Exim version 4.41
4475-----------------
4476
4477 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4478 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4479 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4480 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4481 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4482 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4483
4484
4485Exim version 4.40
4486-----------------
4487
4488 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4489 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4490
4491 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4492 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4493 socklen_t is defined.
4494
4495 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4496 always exist.
4497
4498 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4499 configured.
4500
4501 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4502 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4503 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4504 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4505 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4506
4507 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4508 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4509 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4510 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4511
4512 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4513 of flapping under certain conditions.
4514
4515 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4516 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4517 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4518
4519 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4520
452110. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4522
452311. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4524 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4525 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4526 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4527
452812. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4529 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4530 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4531 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4532 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4533 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4534 preserved with the message after it was received.
4535
453613. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4537 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4538 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4539 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4540 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4541 test suite worked just fine.
4542
454314. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4544 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4545 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4546
454715. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4548 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4549 string.
4550
455116. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4552 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4553 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4554 does not fully solve it.
4555
455617. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4557 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4558 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4559 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4560 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4561
456218. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4563 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4564 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4565
456619. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4567 string, for example:
4568
4569 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4570
4571 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4572 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4573 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4574 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4575 the routers could not see them.
4576
457720. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4578 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4579
458021. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4581 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4582 output).
4583
458422. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4585 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4586 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4587 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4588 that needed quoting.
4589
459023. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4591 was not being matched caselessly.
4592
459324. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4594 backslashes.
4595
459625. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4597 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4598 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4599 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4600 when use_sender is false.
4601
460226. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4603
460427. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4605
460628. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4607
460829. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4609 the configuration file.
4610
461130. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4612 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4613
461431. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4615
461632. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4617 bytes in the message body.
4618
461933. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4620 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4621 delivery.
4622
462334. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4624
462535. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4626
462736. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4628 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4629 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4630 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4631 another IP address.
4632
4633
4634Exim version 4.34
4635-----------------
4636
4637 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4638 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4639
4640 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4641 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4642 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4643 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4644 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4645
4646 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4647 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4648
4649 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4650 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4651 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4652
4653 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4654 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4655 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4656
4657 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4658 for routers.
4659
4660 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4661 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4662 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4663 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4664 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4665 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4666 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4667
4668
4669Exim version 4.33
4670-----------------
4671
4672 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4673 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4674 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4675 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4676 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4677 default (and expected) setting.
4678
4679 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4680 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4681 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4682 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4683
4684 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4685 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4686
4687 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4688 in domain lists.
4689
4690 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4691 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4692 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4693 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4694 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4695 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4696
4697 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4698 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4699 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4700
4701 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4702 part (NOT match_host).
4703
4704 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4705
4706 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4707 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4708 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4709 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4710 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4711 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4712 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4713 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4714 the same named file.
4715
471610. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4717 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4718 when Exim is built.
4719
472011. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4721 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4722 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4723 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4724 a host name.
4725
472612. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4727 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4728 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4729
473013. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4731
473214. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4733
473415. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4735
473616. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4737 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4738
473917. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4740 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4741 before starting the TLS session.
4742
474318. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4744
474519. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4746 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4747
474820. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4749 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4750 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4751 colon in the middle).
4752
4753
4754Exim version 4.32
4755-----------------
4756
4757 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4758 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4759 multiple configurations are in use.
4760
4761 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4762 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4763 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4764 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4765 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4766 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4767
4768 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4769 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4770
4771 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4772 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4773 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4774
4775 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4776 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4777 occurs.
4778
4779 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4780 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4781
4782 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4783
4784 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4785 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4786
4787 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4788
4789 -prval:sval
4790
4791 is equivalent to
4792
4793 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4794
4795 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4796 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4797 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4798 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4799 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4800
480110. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4802 Exim's behaviour:
4803
4804 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4805 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4806 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4807 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4808 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4809 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4810
4811 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4812 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4813 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4814 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4815 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4816 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4817 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4818 string.
4819
4820 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4821 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4822 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4823 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4824 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4825
482611. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4827
482812. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4829 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4830 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4831
483213. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4833
483414. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4835 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4836 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4837 information.
4838
483915. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4840 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4841
484216. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4843 Three changes have been made:
4844
4845 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4846 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4847 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4848 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4849 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4850
4851 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4852 been restored.
4853
4854 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4855 the modified behaviour.
4856
4857
4858Exim version 4.31
4859-----------------
4860
4861 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4862 Larry Rosenman.
4863
4864 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4865 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4866
4867 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4868 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4869 try to track down a specific problem.
4870
4871 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4872 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4873 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4874
4875 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4876 warning.
4877
4878 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4879 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4880 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4881 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4882 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4883 some earlier ones do not.
4884
4885 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4886
4887 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4888 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4889 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4890 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4891 address literals are enabled, of course).
4892
4893 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4894
489510. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4896 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4897 by a command such as
4898
4899 exim -f "" ...
4900
4901 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4902
490311. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4904
490512. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4906 remained set. It is now erased.
4907
490813. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4909 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4910
491114. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4912 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4913 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4914 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4915 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4916 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4917 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4918 appropriate error code.
4919
492015. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4921 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4922 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4923 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4924 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4925 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4926
492716. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4928 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4929 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4930
493117. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4932 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4933 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4934 terminate the header.
4935
493618. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4937 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4938 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4939
494019. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4941 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4942 (4.30/29). In particular:
4943
4944 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4945 imposed.
4946
4947 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4948 to write a maildirsize file.
4949
4950 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4951 the transport, the new value overrides.
4952
4953 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4954 count.
4955
495620. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4957 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4958 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4959 space or a tab.
4960
496121. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4962 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4963 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4964 the fallback hosts.
4965
496622. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4967 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4968 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4969
497023. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4971 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4972 using a union.
4973
497424. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4975 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4976 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4977
497825. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4979
498026. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4981
498227. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4983
498428. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4985 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4986 become corrupted.
4987
498829. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4989 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4990 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4991 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4992 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4993 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4994 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4995 too great.
4996
499730. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4998 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4999 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5000 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5001 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5002 incorrectly.
5003
500431. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5005 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5006 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5007 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5008 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5009 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5010 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5011 cached value only when the same options are set.
5012
501332. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5014
501533. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5016 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5017 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5018 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5019 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5020
502134: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5022 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5023 it is clearly obsolete.
5024
502535. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5026 transport.
5027
502836. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5029 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5030 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5031 times.
5032
503337. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5034 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5035 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5036 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5037 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5038
503938. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5040 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5041 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5042 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5043
504439. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5045
5046 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5047
5048 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5049 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5050 2^31.
5051
505240. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5053 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5054 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5055 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5056 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5057 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5058 $localpart_data.
5059
506041. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5061 with the -f command-line option.
5062
506342. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5064 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5065 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5066 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5067 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
5068 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5069
507043. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
5071 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
5072 line.
5073
507444. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
5075 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
5076 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
5077 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
5078 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
5079 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
5080 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
5081 buffer is too small.
5082
508345. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
5084 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
5085
508646. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
5087 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
5088 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
5089 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
5090 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
5091 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
5092 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
5093 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
5094 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
5095
509647. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
5097 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
5098 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
5099
510048. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
5101 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
5102 ACL").
5103
510449. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
5105 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
5106 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
5107 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
5108 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
5109
511050. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
5111 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
5112 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
5113 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
5114 is set.
5115
511651. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
5117
511852. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
5119
512053. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
5121 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
5122
512354. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
5124 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
5125 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
5126
512755. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
5128 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
5129 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
5130 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
5131 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
5132
513356. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
5134 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
5135 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
5136 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
5137 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
5138 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
5139 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
5140
514157. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
5142 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
5143 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
5144 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
5145 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
5146 the test of how many are available.
5147
514858. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
5149 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5150 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5151 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5152 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5153 new message is started.
5154
515559. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5156 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5157
515860. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5159 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5160
516161. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5162 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5163 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5164 is no long logged.
5165
516662. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5167 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5168 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5169 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5170 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5171 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5172 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5173
517463. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5175 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5176 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5177 interpreted as octal.
5178
517964. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5180 setting.
5181
518265. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5183 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5184 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5185 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5186 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5187 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5188
518966. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5190 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5191 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5192 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5193
5194 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5195 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5196 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5197 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5198
5199 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5200 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5201 is a bug fix.
5202
5203 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5204 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5205
520667. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5207
520868. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5209 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5210 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5211 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5212
521369. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5214 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5215 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5216 supplied", which is not helpful.
5217
521870. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5219 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5220 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5221
522271. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5223 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5224 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5225 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5226 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5227 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5228 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5229 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5230
523172. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5232 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5233 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5234 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5235 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5236
523773. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5238 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5239 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5240 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5241 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5242 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5243
524474. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5245 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5246 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5247
524875. Added write_rejectlog option.
5249
525076. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5251 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5252 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5253 variables.
5254
525577. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5256
525778. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5258 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5259 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5260 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5261 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5262 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5263 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5264 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5265
526679. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5267 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5268 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5269 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5270 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5271
527280. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5273 Haardt.
5274
527581. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5276 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5277 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5278 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5279 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5280 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5281 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5282 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5283 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5284
5285
5286Exim version 4.30
5287-----------------
5288
5289 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5290 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5291 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5292
5293 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5294 fixed.
5295
5296 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5297 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5298 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5299
5300 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5301 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5302 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5303 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5304 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5305 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5306
5307 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5308 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5309 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5310 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5311 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5312 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5313 the Exim test suite.
5314
5315 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5316 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5317 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5318 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5319
5320 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5321 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5322 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5323 specify it in this variable.
5324
5325 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5326 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5327 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5328 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5329
5330 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5331 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5332 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5333 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5334
5335 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5336 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5337 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5338 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5339 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5340
5341 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5342
534310. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5344 they are logged.
5345
534611. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5347 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5348 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5349 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5350 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5351
535212. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5353 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5354
535513. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5356 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5357 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5358 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5359 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5360
536114. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5362 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5363
536415. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5365 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5366 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5367
536816. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5369 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5370
537117. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5372 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5373
537418. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5375 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5376 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5377
537819. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5379 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5380
538120. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5382 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5383 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5384 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5385
538621. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5387
538822. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5389 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5390 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5391 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5392
539323. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5394
539524. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5396 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5397
539825. Added .include_if_exists.
5399
540026. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5401 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5402 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5403 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5404 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5405 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5406
540727. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5408
540928. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5410 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5411 this.
5412
541329. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5414
541530. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5416 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5417
5418 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5419 550 Sender verify failed
5420
5421 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5422 the final line of the response.
5423
542431. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5425 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5426 all other user lookups.
5427
542832. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5429 delivery time.
5430
543133. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5432 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5433 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5434 result into an int without checking.
5435
543634. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5437 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5438 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5439
544035. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5441 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5442 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5443 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5444
544536. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5446 correctly.
5447
544837. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5449 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5450
545138. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5452 to the empty sender.
5453
545439. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5455 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5456 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5457 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5458 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5459 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5460 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5461 panic log.
5462
546340. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5464 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5465 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5466 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5467 used.
5468
546941. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5470 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5471
547242. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5473 timestamps.
5474
547543. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5476 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5477
547844. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5479
548045. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5481 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5482 logs.
5483
548446. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5485 as soon as it is encountered.
5486
548747. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5488
548948. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5490 rewritten to "<>".
5491
549249. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5493 recognizes a tab character.
5494
549550. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5496 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5497 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5498 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5499
550051. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5501
550252. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5503 crash.
5504
550553. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5506
550754. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5508
550955. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5510 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5511 2822.
5512
551356. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5514 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5515 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5516 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5517 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5518
551957. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5520 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5521
552258. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5523 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5524 list (.included file names were always shown).
5525
552659. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5527 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5528 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5529 root at that time.
5530
553160. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5532 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5533
553461. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5535
553662. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5537
553863. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5539
554064. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5541 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5542 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5543 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5544 failures to open the logs.
5545
554665. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5547 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5548 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5549 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5550 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5551 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5552 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5553
5554
5555Exim version 4.24
5556-----------------
5557
5558 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5559 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5560 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5561 change 4.23/1.
5562
5563 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5564 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5565 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5566
5567 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5568 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5569 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5570
5571 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5572 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5573 causing some misleading effects.
5574
5575 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5576 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5577 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5578
5579 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5580 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5581 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5582 queue-runner function directly.
5583
5584
5585Exim version 4.23
5586-----------------
5587
5588 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5589 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5590
5591 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5592 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5593 was always written to the default place.
5594
5595 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5596 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5597 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5598
5599 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5600
5601 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5602
5603 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5604 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5605 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5606
5607 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5608 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5609 must start.
5610
5611 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5612 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5613 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5614
5615 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5616 command line option is disabled.
5617
5618 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5619 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5620
5621 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5622
5623 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5624
5625 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5626 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5627
562810. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5629
563011. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5631 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5632 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5633 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5634 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5635 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5636
563712. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5638 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5639 timeout.
5640
564113. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5642 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5643
564414. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5645 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5646
564715. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5648 received was valid base64.
5649
565016. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5651 name of the variable that was being set.
5652
565317. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5654
565518. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5656 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5657 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5658 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5659 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5660 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5661
566219. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5663
566420. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5665 nor realm was specified.
5666
566721. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5668 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5669 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5670 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5671
567222. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5673 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5674 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5675
567623. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5677 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5678 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5679
568024. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5681 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5682 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5683 some systems use these upper case variants.
5684
568525. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5686 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5687 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5688 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5689
569026. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5691
569227. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5693 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5694
569528. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5696 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5697 expansion variable.
5698
569929. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5700
570130. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5702 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5703 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5704 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5705
570631. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5707 using it.
5708
570932. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5710 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5711 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5712
571333. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5714 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5715
571634. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5717 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5718 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5719 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5720
572135. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5722 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5723 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5724
572536. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5726
572737. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5728 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5729 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5730 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5731 aborted.
5732
573338. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5734 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5735 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5736
573739. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5738
573940. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5740 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5741
574241. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5743 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5744
574542. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5746 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5747 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5748 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5749 when emails are that large.
5750
5751
5752
5753Exim version 4.22
5754-----------------
5755
5756 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5757 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5758
5759 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5760 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5761 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5762
5763 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5764 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5765 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5766
5767 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5768 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5769 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5770 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5771 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5772
5773 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5774 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5775 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5776 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5777 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5778 ever.
5779
5780 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5781 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5782 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5783 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5784 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5785 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5786 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5787 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5788 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5789 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5790 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5791 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5792 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5793 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5794
5795 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5796 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5797 parameterised it.
5798
5799 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5800 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5801 error should be diagnosed.
5802
5803 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5804 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5805 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5806 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5807 appeared instead of "NULL".
5808
580910. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5810 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5811 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5812 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5813 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5814 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5815 proceeds).
5816
5817 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5818 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5819 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5820
5821
5822Exim version 4.21
5823-----------------
5824
5825 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5826 or receiver verification errors.
5827
5828 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5829 name.
5830
5831 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5832 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5833 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5834 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5835
5836 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5837 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5838 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5839 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5840 shouldn't happen again.
5841
5842 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5843 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5844 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5845
5846 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5847 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5848
5849 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5850
5851 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5852 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5853
5854 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5855 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5856 RFC.
5857
585810. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5859 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5860 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5861
586211. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5863 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5864 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5865 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5866
586712. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5868 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5869 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5870 to define what should happen).
5871
587213. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5873 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5874 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5875
587614. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5877
587815. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5879
588016. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5881 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5882
588317. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5884 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5885 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5886 structure in all cases.
5887
5888 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5889 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5890 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5891 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5892
589318. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5894 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5895 domain name.
5896
589719. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5898 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5899
590020. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5901 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5902
590321. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5904 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5905 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5906
590722. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5908 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5909 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5910
591123. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5912 the book and for uniformity.
5913
591424. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5915
591625. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5917 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5918 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5919 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5920 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5921 non-existent command as the problem.
5922
592326. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5924 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5925 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5926
592727. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5928
592928. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5930 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5931 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5932
593329. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5934 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5935 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5936 timestamps using strftime().
5937
593830. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5939 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5940
594132. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5942 transport-time rewrites.
5943
594433. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5945 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5946 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5947 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5948
594934. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5950 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5951
595235. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5953 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5954 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5955 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5956 comma and a space.
5957
595836. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5959 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5960 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5961 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5962 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5963 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5964 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5965
596637. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5967 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5968 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5969 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5970 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5971
597238. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5973 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5974 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5975 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5976 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5977 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5978 remaining text gets split now.
5979
598039. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5981 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5982 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5983 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5984
598540. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5986 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5987 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5988 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5989 $return_path.
5990
599141. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5992 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5993 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5994 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5995 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5996 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5997 passed through if needed.
5998
599942. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6000 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6001 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6002 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6003 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6004 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6005
600643. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6007 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6008 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6009 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6010 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6011
601244. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6013 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6014 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6015 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6016 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6017
601845. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6019 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6020 noticed.
6021
602246. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6023 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6024 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6025 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6026 mayhem of various kinds.
6027
602847. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6029 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
6030 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
6031 the right test for positive values.
6032
603348. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6034 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6035 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6036 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6037 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6038 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6039 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6040 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6041 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6042 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6043 envelope.
6044
604549. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6046 module.
6047
604850. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6049 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6050 forbidding it.
6051
605251. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6053 the existing equality matching.
6054
605552. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6056 dealing with inode numbers.
6057
605853. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6059 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6060 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6061
606254. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6063 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6064 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6065 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6066 local_scan().
6067
606855. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
6069 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
6070 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
6071 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
6072 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
6073 relay addresses has also been removed.
6074
607556. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
6076
607757. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
6078 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
6079 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
6080
608158. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
6082 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
6083 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
6084 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
6085 processing applies to CR:
6086
6087 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
6088 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
6089
6090 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
6091 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
6092 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
6093 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
6094
609559. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
6096 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
6097 This is a VOB (very old bug).
6098
609960. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
6100 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
6101 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
6102 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
6103 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
6104 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
6105 arisen.
6106
610761. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
6108 program routers.
6109
611062. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
6111 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
6112 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
6113 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
6114 adds:
6115
6116 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
6117
6118 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
6119
6120 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
6121
612263. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
6123 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
6124 not considered personal.
6125
612664. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
6127
612865. Added queue_only_override (default true).
6129
613066. Added the syslog_duplication option.
6131
613267. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
6133 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
6134 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
6135 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
6136 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
6137 header lines, and spool format errors.
6138
613968. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
6140 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
6141 for more flexibility.
6142
614369. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
6144 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
6145 consulting and updating the callout cache.
6146
614770. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
6148 Sabourenkov.
6149
615071. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6151 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6152 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6153 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6154 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6155 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6156 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6157 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6158 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6159
616072. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6161 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6162 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6163 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6164 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6165 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6166 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6167
616873. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6169 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6170 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6171
617274. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6173 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6174 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6175 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6176 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6177 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6178 instead of killing the process with assert().
6179
618075. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6181 than Unicode encoding.
6182
618376. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6184 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6185 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6186 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6187
618877. Added process_log_path.
6189
619078. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6191 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6192
619379. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6194 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6195
619680. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6197 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6198 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6199
620081. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6201 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6202 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6203 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6204 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6205 were applied:
6206
6207 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6208 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6209 as invalid.
6210
621182. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6212 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6213 they will be used during message reception.
6214
6215
6216Exim version 4.20
6217-----------------
6218
6219The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6220
6221****