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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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4Exim version 4.81
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6
7PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
8
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9PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
10 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
11
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12PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
13 by GnuTLS.
14
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15PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
16 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
17 routines.
18
13363eba 19PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 20
66645890 21PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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22 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
23 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
24 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
25 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 26
a3fb9793 27PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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28 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
29 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
30 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 31 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 32 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 33
d27f98fe 34TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 35
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36JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
37
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38JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
39
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40PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
41
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42NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
43 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 44
585121e2 45JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 46
525239c1 47JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}
723c72e6 48
b1770b6e 49Exim version 4.80
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51
52PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
53 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
54 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
55
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56NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
57
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58NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
59 improved.
60
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61NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
62
c1e794ba 63PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 64
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65PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
66
67PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
68 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
69
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70PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
71 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
72
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73PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
74 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
75
f1e05cc7 76PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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77 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
78 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 79
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80PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
81
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82PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
83 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
84
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85PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
86
c45dd180 87PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 88
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89PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
90 non-compliant senders.
91 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
92
eae0036b 93NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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94 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
95 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
96
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97PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
98 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
99 in spool file corruption.
100
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101PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
102 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
103 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
104 "Got SSL error 2".
105
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106TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
107 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
108 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
109
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110JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
111 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
112
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113JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
114
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115PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
116 diagnostics.
117 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
118
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119PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
120 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
121 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
122
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123PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
124 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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125 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
126 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 127
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128PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
129 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
130
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131PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
132 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
133 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
134 resolver implementation change.
135
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136PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
137 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
138
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139PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
140
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141PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
142
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143PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
144 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
145
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146PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
147 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
148
9e45c72b 149JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
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150 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
151
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152PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
153 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
154 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
155 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 156 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 157
53947857 158PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 159
eae0036b 160PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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161 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
162 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 163
9e45c72b 164JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 165
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166PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
167 read-only, out of scope).
168 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
169
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170PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
171 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
172 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
173 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
174
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175PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
176
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177PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
178 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
179 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
180 real issues in debug logging.
181
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182PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
183 assignment on my part. Fixed.
184
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185PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
186 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
187 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
188
189PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
190 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
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191 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
192 problems.
3375e053 193
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194PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
195 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
196
57eb9e91 197PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
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198 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
199 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
200 needs to override this, it can.
201
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202PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
203 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
204 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
205
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206PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
207 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
208 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
209 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
210
3ecab157 211PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 212
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216
217PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
218 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
219
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220TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
221
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222TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
223 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 224
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225TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
226 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
227
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228TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
229 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
230 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
231
232 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
233 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
234 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
235 not safe for signals.
236
237 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
238 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
239 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
240 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
241 exiwhat.
242
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243TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
244
245 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
246 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
247 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
248 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
249 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
250
251 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
252 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
253 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
254 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
255 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
256 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
257
258 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
259 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
260 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
261 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
262
263 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
264 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
265 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
266 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
267
268 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
269 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
270 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
271 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
272 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
273 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
274 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
275 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
276 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
277
278 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
279 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
280 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
281 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
282
283 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
284 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
285 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
286 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
287 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
288 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
289 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
290 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
291 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
292 details in the main documentation.
293
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294TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
295
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296TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
297
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298TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
299 repository when doing development or release builds.
300
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301PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
302 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 303
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304PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
305 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
306 Bugzilla 97.
307
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308PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
309
9e949f00 310PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
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311 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
312
313PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
314 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 315
555ae6af 316PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
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317 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
318
319PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
320 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 321
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322PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
323 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
324
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325PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
326 Bugzilla 1156.
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327 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
328 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 329
d6cc7c78 330PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
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331 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
332 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
333
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334PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
335
3399bb60 336PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
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337
338PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
339 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
340
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342Exim version 4.76
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344
345PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
346
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347PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
348 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
349
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350PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
351
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352PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
353
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354PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
355 Bugzilla 1098.
356
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357PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
358 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 359
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360TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
361 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
362
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363PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
364 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
365
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366PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
367 Bugzilla 1104.
368
c8d52a00 369TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
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370 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
371
372TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
373 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
374 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
375 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
376
377PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
378 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
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383
4c9ef03a 384NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
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385 Bugzilla 1073
386
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387TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
388 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
389 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
390
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391TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
392 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
393
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394PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
395 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
396 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
397
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398PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
399 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
400
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401PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
402 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
403
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404NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
405 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
406
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407NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
408 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
409
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410PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
411 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 412
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413NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
414 Fixes bug 943.
415
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416PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
417 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
418
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419PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
420 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
421
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422PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
423 SQL string expansion failure details.
424 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
425
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426PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
427 Patch from Simon Arlott.
428
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429PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
430 extern declarations in function scope.
431 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
432
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433PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
434 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
435 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
436 a kernel bug).
437
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438PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
439 Patch from Mark Zealey.
440
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441PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
442 Patch from Mark Zealey.
443
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444PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
445 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
446
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447PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
448 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
449
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450NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
451 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
452 Dennis Davis.
453
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454PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
455
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456PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
457
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458NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
459 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 460
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461TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
462 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
463
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467
468TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
469 consequences so log it to the panic log.
470
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471TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
472 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
473
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474TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
475
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476DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
477 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
478 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
479
480PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
481 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
482 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
483
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484PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
485 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
486 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
487 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
488
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489PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
490 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
491 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
492 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
493
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494PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
495 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
496 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
497 arbitrary files.
498
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499PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
500 (Wolfgang Breyha)
501
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502PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
503 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
504 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
505 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
506 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
507
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511
512PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
513 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
514 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
515
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516PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
517 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
518
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519JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
520
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521PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
522
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523PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
524
ec5a0394 525PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 526
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527PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
528
453a6645 529PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
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530 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
531 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
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532 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
533
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534PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
535 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
536 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
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537 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
538 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 539
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540PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
541
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542PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
543
7d9f747b
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544PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
545
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546PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
547
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548PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
549
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550PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
551
532be449
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552PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
553
6a8de854 554PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
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555 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
556 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 557
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558JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
559
560JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
561 "exim" to be used
55c75993 562
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563PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
564 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
565
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566PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
567 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
568 Notification from John Horne.
569
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570PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
571 compatible.
572
573PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
574 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
575 it normally works.
576
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577DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
578 access.
579
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580DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
581 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
582 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
583
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584DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
585 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
586 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
587 configuration file.
588
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589DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
590 option (effectively making it always true).
591
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592DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
593 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
594
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595DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
596 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
597
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598PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
599 run-time user, instead of root.
600
43236f35 601PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
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602 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
603
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604DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
605 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
606 arguments.
3346ab01 607
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608DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
609 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
610 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
611
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612DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
613
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614NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
615
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617Exim version 4.72
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619
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620JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
621 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
622 typos
465e92cf 623
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624JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
625 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
626 (Finput)
edae0343 627
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628NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
629 Patch from Alain Williams
630
bb576ff7
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631NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
632
5a1a5845
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633NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
634 Patch from Andreas Metzler
635
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636NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
637 Patch from Kirill Miazine
638
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639NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
640
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641JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
642
a466095c 643NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 644 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 645
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646TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
647
648TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
649
650MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
651 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
652 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
653
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654NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
655 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 656
b26eacf1 657NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
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658 Patch by Simon Arlott
659
179c5980 660PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 661 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 662
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666
7d9f747b 667TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 668
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669NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
670
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671NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
672
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673NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
674
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675NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
676
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678Exim version 4.70
679-----------------
680
cdd3bb85 681TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 682 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
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683
684TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
685 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 686 Hirsch).
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687
688TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
689 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 690 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
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691
692TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
693 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
694
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695NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
696 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
697 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
698 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
699
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700NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
701 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 702 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 703
089793a4
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704TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
705
5f16ca82
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706TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
707
dae9d94e 708NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 709 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 710
7d9f747b 711NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 712
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713TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
714 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
715 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
716 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
717
65a7d8c3 718NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 719 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 720
23510047 721TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 722
7d9f747b 723NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 724
7d8eec3a 725NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 726 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 727
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728TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
729 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 730
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731TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
732 that they are available at delivery time.
733
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734TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
735
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736TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
737 incoming_port log selectors.
738
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739TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
740 setting expands to an empty string.
741
ce552449 742NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 743 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 744
e765a0f1 745NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 746 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 747
4f054c63 748NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 749 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 750
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751NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
752 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 753
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754NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
755 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 756
b52bc06e 757NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 758 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 759
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760NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
761
4c69d561 762NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 763 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 764
d5c39246 765NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 766 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 767
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768TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
769
8f3414a1 770NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 771 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 772
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773NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
774
775NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 776
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777NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
778 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 779
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780NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
781 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 782
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783NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
784 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 785
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786NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
787 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 788
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789NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
790 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 791
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792NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
793 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 794
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795NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
796 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 797
7d9f747b 798NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 799 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 800
7d9f747b 801NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 802
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803NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
804 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 805
7d9f747b 806NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 807
7d9f747b 808NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 809
7d9f747b 810NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 811
7d9f747b 812NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 813
17792b53 814NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 815 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 816
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817NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
818 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 819
91576cec 820NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 821 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 822
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823NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
824 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 825
7d9f747b 826NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 827
7d9f747b 828NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 829
7d9f747b 830NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 831
7d9f747b 832NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 833
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836-----------------
837
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838TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
839 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
840 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
841
842 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
843 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
844 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
845 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
846 build errors in sieve.c.
847
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848NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
849 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
850 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
851
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852SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
853
7d9f747b 854NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 855
7d9f747b 856NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 857
7d9f747b 858NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
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860
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863
864PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
865
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866PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
867 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
868 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
869 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
870 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
871 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
872 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
873 for iplsearch lookups.
874
875 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
876 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
877 previously such lookups could never work.
878
879 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
880 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
881 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
882
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883TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
884 version.
885
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886MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
887 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
888 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
889 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
890 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
891 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
892
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893TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
894 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
895
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896MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
897 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
898 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
899 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
900 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
901 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
902
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903PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
904 local_scan API.
905
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906PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
907
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908PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
909 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
910 encrypted.
911
912PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
913 by clients under certain conditions.
914
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915PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
916 "_responses" off the end of the name.
917
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918PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
919
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920PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
921 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
922
923PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
924
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925PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
926
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927PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
928
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929PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
930 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
931
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932PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
933
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934PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
935 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
936
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937PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
938
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939PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
940
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941PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
942 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
943 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
944 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 945
ddea74fa 946PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
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947 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
948 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
949
ddea74fa 950PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
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951 and InterBase are left for another time.)
952
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953PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
954
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955PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
956
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957PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
958
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959PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
960 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
961 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
962
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966
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967MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
968 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
969 Jan Srzednicki.
970
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971PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
972 issue a MAIL command.
973
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974PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
975
976 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
977
978 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
979 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
980 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
981 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
982 item. This has been fixed.
983
984PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
985 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
986
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987PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
988 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
989
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990PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
991 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
992 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
993
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994SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
995
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996PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
997 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
998 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
999 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1000 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1001
0e8a9471
MH
1002MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1003 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1004 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1005
f0872424
PH
1006PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1007 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1008 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1009 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1010
b01dd148
PH
1011PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1012
6bf342e1
PH
1013PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1014
273f34d0
PH
1015PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1016 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1017 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1018 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1019 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1020
cf8b11a5
PH
1021PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1022
41c7c167
PH
1023PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1024 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1025 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1026 values).
1027
9c57cbc0
PH
1028PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1029
f3f065bb
PH
1030PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1031
047bdd8c
PH
1032PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1033
0ce9abe6
PH
1034PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1035
0e22dfd1
PH
1036PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1037
4c590bd1
PH
1038PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1039 no_callout_flush is set.
1040
09945f1e
PH
1041PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1042 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1043 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1044 fixed.
1045
c51b8e75
PH
1046PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1047
e28326d8
PH
1048PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1049 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1050 other ACL rejections are.
1051
75b1493f
PH
1052PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1053 with slight modification.
1054
7c5214ec
PH
1055PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1056 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1057
4311097e
PH
1058PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1059 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1060 connection.
1061
29f89cad
PH
1062PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1063 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1064
5e687460
SC
1065SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1066
c3611384
PH
1067PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1068 expansion side effects.
1069
5a11a7b4
PH
1070PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1071 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1072 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1073 be the same.
1074
0e20aff9
MH
1075MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1076 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1077 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1078
ca86f471
PH
1079PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1080 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1081 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1082 were accidentally chopped off.
1083
a14e5636
PH
1084PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1085 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1086 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1087 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1088 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1089 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1090 pipelining has not been advertised.
1091
ec95d1a6
PH
1092PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1093
42855d71
PH
1094PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1095 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1096 This has been fixed.
1097
57c2c631
PH
1098PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1099 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1100 reported on Solaris.
1101
58c01c94
PH
1102PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1103 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1104 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1105 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1106 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1107 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1108 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1109
dee5a20a
PH
1110PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1111 cpus.
1112
d2ee6114
PH
1113PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1114
b2d5182b
PH
1115PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1116
79749a79
PH
1117PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1118 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1119 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1120 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1121 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1122 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1123
c456d9bb
PH
1124PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1125 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1126 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1127 host_all_ignored option.
1128
cd9868ec
PH
1129PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1130 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1131 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1132 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1133 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1134 is what is supposed to happen).
1135
ebeaf996
PH
1136PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1137 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1138 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1139 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1140 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1141 uses the Exim user.
1142
2679d413
PH
1143PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1144 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1145 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1146 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1147 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1148 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1149 users.
1150
84024b72
PH
1151PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1152
8005d38e
SC
1153SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1154 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1155 (Jez Hancock).
1156 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1157 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1158
3298c6c6
SC
1159SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1160
a43a27c5
PH
1161PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1162
58eb016e 1163PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1164 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1165 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1166 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1167 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1168 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1169 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1170 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1171 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1172 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1173 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1174
b43a74ea
PH
1175PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1176 advertised in response to EHLO.
1177
b4ed4da0 1178
5dd1517f
PH
1179Exim version 4.66
1180-----------------
1181
1182PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1183 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1184
1185 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1186 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1187
1188 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1189 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1190 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1191
1192 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1193 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1194 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1195 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1196 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1197
1198
93cfa765
TK
1199Exim version 4.65
1200-----------------
1201
1202TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1203 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1204 versions. (#438)
1205
d6066548
MH
1206MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1207 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1208 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1209
4362ff0d
PH
1210PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1211 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1212 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1213 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1214 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1215 rather than extend the field.
1216
93cfa765 1217
944e9e9c
TF
1218Exim version 4.64
1219-----------------
aa41d2de 1220
21d74bd9
TK
1221TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1222 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1223 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1224 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1225 these files.
1226
1227TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1228 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1229 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1230
1231TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1232 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1233 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1234
1235TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1236 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1237 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1238 in the field name.
1239
2b1c6e3a
PH
1240PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1241 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1242 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1243 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1244 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1245 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1246 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1247 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1248 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1249 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1250 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1251
1f872c80
PH
1252PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1253 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1254
1255PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1256 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1257 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1258 ignores EPIPE as well.
1259
d203e649
PH
1260PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1261 (quoted-printable decoding).
1262
cc2ed8f7 1263PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1264 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1265
ddfcd446
PH
1266PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1267
d45b1de8
PH
1268PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1269
1270PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1271
38a0a95f 1272PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1273 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1274
a2405d83
JJ
1275JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1276 in 4.64-PH/09.
1277
1278JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1279 miscellaneous code fixes
1280
6ea85e9a
PH
1281PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1282 rejections.
1283
26da7e20
PH
1284PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1285 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1286 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1287 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1288 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1289 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1290 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1291 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1292
14aa5a05 1293PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1294 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1295 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1296 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1297 function.
1298 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1299 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1300 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1301 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1302 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1303 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1304 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1305 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1306 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1307
ff75a1f7
PH
1308PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1309 decoding.
1310
e6f6568e
PH
1311PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1312 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1313 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1314 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1315 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1316 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1317 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1318 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1319
d6f6e0dc
PH
1320PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1321 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1322 list.
1323
322050c2
PH
1324PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1325 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1326 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1327 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1328 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1329 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1330 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1331 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1332 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1333 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1334 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1335 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1336 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1337
08955dd3
PH
1338PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1339 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1340 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1341 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1342 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1343 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1344 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1345
1eccaa59
PH
1346PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1347 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1348 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1349 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1350 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1351 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1352 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1353 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1354 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1355 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1356
602e59e5
PH
1357PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1358 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1359 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1360 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1361 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1362
411ef850
PH
1363PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1364 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1365 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1366 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1367 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1368 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1369 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1370
7befa435
PH
1371PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1372 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1373 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1374 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1375 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1376 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1377 been verified.
1378
48da4259 1379PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1380 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1381 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1382 and authorization.)
1383
48da4259
PH
1384PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1385 if any retry times were supplied.
1386
d1d5595c
PH
1387PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1388 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1389 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1390
0ef732d9
PH
1391PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1392
328895cc
PH
1393PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1394
fd700877
PH
1395PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1396 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1397 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1398 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1399 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1400 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1401
8dce1a6f
PH
1402PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1403 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1404
17af4a17
PH
1405PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1406 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1407 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1408
1409PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1410 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1411 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1412 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1413 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1414 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1415 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1416 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1417 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1418
1419 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1420 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1421 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1422 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1423 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1424 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1425 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1426 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1427 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1428
1429 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1430 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1431 hammering the server.
1432
c1114884
PH
1433PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1434 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1435
7a0743eb
PH
1436PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1437
0d85fa3f
PH
1438PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1439 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1440 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1441
1bf43b78
PH
1442PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1443 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1444 one case where this was not true.
1445
520de300
PH
1446PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1447 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1448 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1449 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1450 fails.
1451
48c7f9e2
PH
1452PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1453 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1454 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1455 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1456 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1457 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1458 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1459 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1460 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1461 smtp transport.
1462
99ea1c86
PH
1463PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1464 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1465 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1466 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1467
a2042e78
PH
1468PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1469 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1470
4fbcfc2e
PH
1471PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1472 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1473 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1474
aa41d2de
PH
1475PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1476
af561417
PH
1477PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1478
3cc66b45
PH
1479PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1480
194cc0e4
PH
1481PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1482 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1483 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1484 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1485
a401ddaa
PH
1486PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1487 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1488
4e88a19f
PH
1489PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1490 be meaningful with "accept".
1491
d7d7b289
SC
1492SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1493 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1494
1495SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1496 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1497 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1498
1499SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1500 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1501 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1502 there is data to show.
1503 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1504
1505SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1506 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1507 as well as the number of messages.
1508
1509SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1510 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1511 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1512
1513SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1514 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1515 have a flag are now skipped.
1516
1517SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1518 Added the -emptyok flag.
1519
1520SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1521 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1522
0ea2a468
JJ
1523JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1524 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1525 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1526
1527JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1528 match 4.64-PH/13
1529
1530JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1531 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1532
1533JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1534
1535JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1536 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1537
8a10f5a4
PH
1538PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1539
30e18802
PH
1540PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1541 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1542 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1543 contravention of the specifications.
1544
55728a4f
PH
1545PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1546 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1547 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1548
d7837193
PH
1549PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1550 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1551 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1552
87054a31
PH
1553PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1554
ea2c01d2
MH
1555MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1556 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1557 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1558 some point in the past.
1559
e4fa6968
PH
1560PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1561 transport during callout processing was broken.
1562
56f5d9bd
PH
1563PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1564 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1565
922e1c28
PH
1566PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1567 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1568
21eb6e72
PH
1569PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1570 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1571
a0540757
PH
1572PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1573
944e9e9c 1574
478be7b0
SC
1575Exim version 4.63
1576-----------------
1577
1578SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1579 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1580
1581SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1582 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1583 there is data to show.
1584 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1585
1586SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1587 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1588
2b965a65
TF
1589TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1590 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1591
45b91596
PH
1592TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1593 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1594
c59f5781
TF
1595TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1596 submissions from trusted users.
1597
90fc3069
TF
1598TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1599 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1600
6083aca0
TF
1601TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1602 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1603 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1604 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1605 there is now a framework to start from.
1606
765b530f
PH
1607PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1608 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1609 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1610
4e167a8c
PH
1611PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1612
4608d683
PH
1613PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1614
b8dc3e4a
PH
1615PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1616
5418e93b
PH
1617PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1618 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1619 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1620
b4a9bda2
PH
1621PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1622 libradius.
1623
45b91596
PH
1624PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1625 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1626 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1627
5547e2c5
PH
1628PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1629 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1630 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1631 its arguments.
1632
dbcef0ea
PH
1633PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1634 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1635 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1636 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1637 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1638
25257489
PH
1639PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1640 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1641
c816d124
PH
1642PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1643
a9ccd69a
PH
1644PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1645 operations in malware.c.
1646
75fa1910
PH
1647PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1648 signatures.
1649
a7d7aa58
PH
1650PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1651 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1652 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1653 all.
1654
42119b09
PH
1655PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1656 statements to "add_header".
1657
41609df5
PH
1658PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1659 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1660
a5bd321b
PH
1661PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1662 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1663 latter.
1664
e85a7ad5 1665PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1666 so that it is now:
1667
e85a7ad5
PH
1668 ${if or { \
1669 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1670 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1671 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1672 }{no}{yes}}
1673
e85a7ad5
PH
1674 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1675 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1676
d8fe1c03
PH
1677PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1678 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1679
16282d2b
PH
1680PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1681 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1682 any possible encoding problems.
1683
35d40a98
PH
1684PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1685 but not after initializing Perl.
1686
034d99ab
PH
1687PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1688 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1689 apparently, which is not desirable.
1690
6ec97b1b
PH
1691PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1692 queries.
1693
e22ca4ac
JJ
1694JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1695 --not options
1696
1697JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1698
33d73e3b
PH
1699PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1700 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1701 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1702 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1703
9ecb03f3
PH
1704PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1705 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1706 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1707
084efe8d
PH
1708PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1709 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1710 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1711 0.12.
1712
366fc9f0
PH
1713PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1714 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1715 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1716 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1717 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1718
c59f5781 1719
c887c79e
TF
1720Exim version 4.62
1721-----------------
1722
1723TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1724 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1725
1cce3af8
PH
1726PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1727 patch).
1728
afb3eaaf
PH
1729PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1730 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1731 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1732 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1733 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1734 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1735 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1736 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1737 451 error is used.
1738
e173618b
PH
1739PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1740
dd16e114
PH
1741PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1742 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1743 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1744
f7fd3850
PH
1745PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1746 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1747 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1748 odd errors.
1749
d87df92c
PH
1750PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1751 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1752
7e9f683d
PH
1753PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1754 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1755 option (which defaults to 0600).
1756
bfad5236
PH
1757PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1758
01c490df
PH
1759PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1760 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1761 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1762 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1763 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1764 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1765 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1766
d6629cdc
PH
1767PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1768
1cce3af8 1769
214e2000
PH
1770Exim version 4.61
1771-----------------
1772
1773PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1774 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1775 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1776 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1777 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1778 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1779 addresses as local.
1780
f9daeae0
PH
1781PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1782 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1783
7e66e54d
PH
1784PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1785
c8ea1597
PH
1786PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1787 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1788 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1789 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1790 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1791 grumble.
1792
911f6fde
PH
1793PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1794 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1795
47ca6d6c
PH
1796PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1797 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1798 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1799 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1800 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1801
ed0e9820
PH
1802PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1803 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1804 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1805 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1806
eff37e47
PH
1807PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1808 be the same on different OS.
1809
1921d2ea
PH
1810PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1811 testing.
1812
b3f69ca8
JJ
1813JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1814 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1815
1816JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1817 in 4.61-PH/06
1818
424a1c63
PH
1819PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1820 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1821 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1822 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1823 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1824 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1825 bounce message.
1826
7a100415
PH
1827PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1828 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1829 when Exim was called.
1830
19b9dc85
PH
1831PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1832 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1833
309bd837
PH
1834PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1835 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1836 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1837 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1838
59e82a2a
PH
1839PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1840 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1841 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1842 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1843 changes:
1844
1845 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1846 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1847 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1848
1849 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1850 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1851 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1852
9edc04ce
PH
1853PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1854 feature).
1855
1349e1e5
PH
1856PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1857 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1858 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1859 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1860 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1861 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1862 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1863 values from the SRV records were lost.
1864
ea49d0e1
PH
1865PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1866 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1867 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1868
064a94c9
PH
1869PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1870 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1871 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1872
727071f8
PH
1873PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1874 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1875 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1876 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1877 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1878 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1879 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1880 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1881 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 1882 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 1883
f78eb7c6
PH
1884PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1885 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1886 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1887
21c28500
PH
1888PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1889 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1890
1891PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1892 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1893 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1894 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1895 is given.
1896
1688f43b
PH
1897PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1898 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1899 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1900
1901PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1902 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1903 PH/23 above applies.
1904
9675b384
PH
1905PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1906 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1907 (for which there is an explicit test).
1908
6a3f1455
PH
1909PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1910
dac79d3e
PH
1911PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1912 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1913 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1914 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1915 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 1916
5977a0b3
PH
1917PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1918 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1919 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1920 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1921
c91535f3
PH
1922PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1923 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1924 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1925
0d46a8c8
PH
1926PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1927
278c6e6c
PH
1928PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1929
2cbb4081
PH
1930PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1931 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1932 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1933
3eef829e
PH
1934PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1935 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1936 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1937 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1938 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1939
1ab95fa6
PH
1940PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1941 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1942 the message gets confusing).
1943
230205fc
PH
1944PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1945 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1946 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1947 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1948
75e0e026
PH
1949PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1950 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1951 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1952 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1953 same order.
1954
1955PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1956 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1957 the different processes.
1958
145396a6
PH
1959PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1960
3cd34f13
PH
1961PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1962
11121d3d
JJ
1963JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1964 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1965
1966JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1967 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1968
1969JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1970 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1971 messages matching specified criteria.
1972
8def5aaf
PH
1973PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1974
929ba01c
PH
1975PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1976 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1977
2632889e
PH
1978PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1979 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1980 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1981 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1982 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1983 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1984 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1985 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1986 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1987 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1988
944a9c55
PH
1989PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1990 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1991 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1992
4a23603b
PH
1993PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1994
4730f942
PH
1995PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1996 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1997 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1998 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1999 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2000 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2001 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2002 the variable.
2003
30dba1e6
PH
2004PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2005 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2006
382afc6b
PH
2007PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2008
a86229cf
PH
2009PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2010
50c99ba6
PH
2011PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2012
d35e429d
PH
2013PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2014 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2015 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2016 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2017 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2018 size of the count of files.
2019
f90d018c
PH
2020PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2021
75def545
PH
2022PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2023 used in LMTP mode:
2024
2025 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2026 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2027 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2028 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2029
2030 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2031 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2032 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2033
2034PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2035 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2036 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2037 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2038 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2039
c46782ef
PH
2040PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2041 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2042
71fafd95
PH
2043PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2044 will now be deprecated.
2045
2c5db4fd
PH
2046PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2047
9cf6b11a
JJ
2048JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2049 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2050 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2051
2052JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2053 with very large, slow to parse queues
2054
2055JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2056
2057JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2058
898d150f
PH
2059PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2060 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2061 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2062 SMTP output lines.
2063
46218253
PH
2064PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2065 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2066 Sieve code now uses this.
2067
e97957bc
PH
2068PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2069 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2070
81e509d7
PH
2071PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2072 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2073
3d240ff7
PH
2074PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2075
b37c4101
PH
2076PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2077 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2078 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2079 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2080 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2081
79378e0f
PH
2082PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2083 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2084 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2085 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2086
e49c7bb4
PH
2087PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2088
d114ec46
PH
2089PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2090
f3d7df6c
PH
2091PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2092 is preferred over IPv4.
2093
715ab376
PH
2094PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2095 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2096 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2097 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2098 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2099 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2100 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2101
6b31b150
PH
2102PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2103 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2104 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2105
2106PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2107
d515a917
PH
2108PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2109 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2110 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2111 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2112 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2113 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2114 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2115 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2116 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2117 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2118 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2119
9b8fadde
PH
2120PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2121 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2122 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2123
214e2000 2124
5de37277
PH
2125Exim version 4.60
2126-----------------
2127
cc38ddbf
PH
2128PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2129
2130 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2131 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2132
2133 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2134 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2135 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2136
72fdd6ae
PH
2137PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2138
2139 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2140 not a single digit.
2141
2142 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2143 string.
2144
2145 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2146 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2147 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2148 silly things.
2149
2150 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2151 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2152
2153 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2154 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2155
cb741023
PH
2156PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2157 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2158 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2159
f174f16e
PH
2160PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2161 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2162
c25242d7
PH
2163PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2164 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2165
2166 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2167
2168 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2169 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2170 this:
2171
2172 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2173
82c19f95
PH
2174PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2175 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2176 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2177 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2178 identical. For example:
2179
2180 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2181
2182 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2183 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2184 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2185
d7ffbc12
PH
2186PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2187 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2188 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2189 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2190
9f526266
PH
2191PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2192 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2193 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2194 message.
2195
87fcc8b9
PH
2196PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2197
2198 o fixes some comments
2199 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2200 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2201 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2202 and documents the missing references header update
2203
2204 and most important:
2205
2206 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2207 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2208 result)
2209
456682f5
PH
2210PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2211 Electronic Mail") by including:
2212
2213 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2214
2215 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2216 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2217 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2218 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2219 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2220
2221 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2222
2223 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2224
2225 The auto-replied keyword:
2226
2227 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2228 message by an automatic process,
2229
2230 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2231
2232 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2233 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2234
2235 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2236 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2237 other messages.
2238
3e46c1aa
PH
2239PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2240 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2241
49826d12
PH
2242PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2243
eba0c039
PH
2244PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2245 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2246 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2247
a0d6ba8a
PH
2248PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2249 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2250 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2251
f0917727
PH
2252PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2253 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2254 and treats the condition as false.
2255
096fee00
PH
2256PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2257
024bd3c2
PH
2258PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2259 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2260 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2261 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2262 not changing the active code.
2263
2264 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2265 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2266
2267 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2268 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2269
df199fec
PH
2270PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2271 (Bugzilla #53).
2272
d27f1df3
PH
2273PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2274 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2275 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2276 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2277 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2278 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2279 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2280 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2281 the text comparison.
2282
96776534
PH
2283PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2284 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2285 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2286 The same fix has been applied.
2287
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9a799bc0
PH
2289Exim version 4.54
2290-----------------
2291
2292PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2293 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2294 It now does.
2295
99a4b039
PH
2296PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2297 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2298
2299PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2300
4b233853
PH
2301PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2302 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2303 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2304 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2305 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2306
8857ccfd
PH
2307TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2308 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2309 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2310 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2311 or /domain=).
2312
433a2980
PH
2313PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2314 testing suite.
2315
3e46c1aa 2316
9a799bc0 2317
e3a311ba
TK
2318Exim version 4.53
2319-----------------
2320
2321TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2322 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2323
13b685f9
PH
2324PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2325
395ff96d
PH
2326PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2327
5b68f6e4
PH
2328PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2329 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2330 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2331
1ab52c69
PH
2332PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2333 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2334 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2335
b07e6aa3
PH
2336PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2337 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2338 operating systems.
2339
254e032f
PH
2340PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2341 ${stat: expansion item.
2342
3af76a81
PH
2343PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2344 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2345
2548ba04
PH
2346PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2347 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2348 file for comments.
2349
b6c6011d
PH
2350PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2351
cf39cf57
PH
2352PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2353 setting.
2354
f1513293
PH
2355PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2356 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2357
727549a4
PH
2358TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2359
af46795e
PH
2360PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2361 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2362 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2363 the end of the subprocess.
2364
d7b47fd0
PH
2365PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2366 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2367 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2368 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2369 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2370
ee744174
JJ
2371JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2372
b582ab87
PH
2373TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2374
41a13e0a
PH
2375PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2376 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2377
f625cc5a
PH
2378PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2379
2380PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2381
21f7af35
PH
2382PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2383 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2384 HP-UX compiler.
2385
31480e42
PH
2386PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2387
2d280592
PH
2388PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2389 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2390 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2391
7cd1141b
PH
2392PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2393 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2394
2395PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2396 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2397
750af86e
PH
2398PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2399 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2400
2401 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2402 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2403
2404 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2405 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2406 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2407 contributed by a Radius user.
2408
2409PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2410 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2411
4304270b
TK
2412TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2413 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2414
750af86e
PH
2415PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2416 available.
2417
64ffc24f
PH
2418PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2419 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2420 received.
2421
5dd9625b
PH
2422PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2423 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2424 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2425 header lines when this was not necessary.
2426
5591031b
PH
2427PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2428
ba18e66a
PH
2429PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2430 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2431 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2432 exists".
2433
9cec981f
PH
2434PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2435 -bV or -d is used.
2436
aa2b5c79
PH
2437PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2438 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2439 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2440 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2441
48a53b7f
PH
2442PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2443
1c59d63b
PH
2444PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2445
671012da
TK
2446TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2447
1509d3a8
PH
2448PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2449
2450PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2451 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2452 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2453 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2454 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2455 settings.
2456
2457PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2458
2fe1a124
PH
2459PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2460 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2461 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2462 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2463 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2464 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2465 which is clearly wrong.
2466
8800895a
PH
2467PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2468
ccfdb010
PH
2469PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2470 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2471 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2472 subsequently added.
2473
1130bfb0
PH
2474PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2475 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2476
ebcb507f
PH
2477PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2478
c35e155c
PH
2479PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2480 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2481
95d1f782
PH
2482PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2483 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2484
fd6de02e
PH
2485PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2486 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2487
58de37c5
PH
2488PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2489 recipients, not senders.
2490
261cf466
TF
2491TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2492 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2493
3ee512ff
PH
2494PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2495
e08c430f
PH
2496PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2497
bef5a11f
PH
2498PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2499 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2500 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2501 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2502
7546de58
TF
2503TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2504
e5d5a95f
TF
2505TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2506 clock is set back in time.
2507
2e88a017
TF
2508TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2509 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2510
a5f65aa4
TF
2511TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2512 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2513
e7726cbf
PH
2514PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2515 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2516 (see PH/47 above).
2517
a7fdad5b
TF
2518TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2519 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2520 header rewrites.
2521
6af56900
PH
2522PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2523 type ("H").
2524
0925ede6
PH
2525PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2526
66afa403
TF
2527TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2528 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2529 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2530
0154e85a
TF
2531TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2532 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2533 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2534 helo verification defer as a failure.
2535
16f12c76
PH
2536PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2537 actual error message.
2538
bbe902f0 2539
e5a9dba6
PH
2540Exim version 4.52
2541-----------------
2542
2543TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2544
22c3b60b
PH
2545PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2546 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2547 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2548 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2549
06a9b4b5
PH
2550TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2551
c1ac6996
PH
2552PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2553 can still be requested.
2554
9c7a242c
PH
2555PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2556 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2557 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2558 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2559
87ba3f5f
PH
2560TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2561 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2562 circumstances, but probably never did.
2563
2564PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2565 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2566 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2567 in the header line.
2568
29aba418
TF
2569TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2570
fe0dab11
TF
2571TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2572 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2573
11d337a4
TK
2574TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2575
2576TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2577
415c8f3b
PH
2578PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2579 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2580 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2581 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2582 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2583 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2584
958541e9
PH
2585PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2586 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2587 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2588 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2589 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2590 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2591
c206415f
TK
2592TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2593 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2594
2a4be8f9
PH
2595PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2596 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2597
1cba11c5
SC
2598SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2599 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2600
2601SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2602
2603SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2604
2605SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2606
2607SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2608
2609SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2610
2611SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2612
1005d00e
TK
2613TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2614
2615TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2616 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2617 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2618
2619TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2620 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2621 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2622 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2623
9b4768fa
PH
2624PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2625 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2626 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2627
2628PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2629 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2630 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2631 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2632
0d7eb84a
PH
2633PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2634 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2635 to be made).
2636
2637PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2638 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2639 should work with maildirs and everything.
2640
40727bee
TK
2641TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2642 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2643
554d2369
TF
2644TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2645 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2646
1f922db1
PH
2647PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2648 function for BDB 4.3.
2649
ef213c3b
PH
2650PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2651
8ac170f3
PH
2652PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2653 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2654 involved.
2655
b1c749bb
PH
2656PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2657 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2658 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2659 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2660 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2661 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2662
4aac9b49
PH
2663PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2664 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2665 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2666 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2667 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2668 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2669 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2670 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2671
294520c8
TK
2672TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2673 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2674 details.
2675
5bd022fe
PH
2676PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2677 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2678
90e9ce59
PH
2679PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2680 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2681 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2682 test. It is now used for both.
2683
5ea81592
PH
2684PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2685 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2686 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2687 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2688 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2689 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2690
c6c2dc1d
PH
2691PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2692 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2693 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2694 string_vformat().
2695
fffffe4c
PH
2696PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2697 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2698 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2699
9a26b6b2
PH
2700PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2701 experimental DomainKeys support:
2702
2703 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2704 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2705 the control was given.
2706
2707 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2708
4aee0225
PH
2709PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2710
32d668a5
PH
2711PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2712
8187c3f3
PH
2713PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2714 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2715 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2716 db.h files).
2717
ff790e47 2718PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2719 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2720 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2721 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2722 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2723 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2724 course.
ff790e47 2725
5417f6d1
PH
2726PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2727 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2728 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2729 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2730 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2731 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2732
59cf8544
PH
2733PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2734 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2735 do -d+all out of habit.
2736
e7ad8a65
PH
2737PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2738 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2739 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2740
ade42478
PH
2741PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2742 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2743 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2744 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2745 record types that Exim uses.
2746
182ad5cf
PH
2747PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2748 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2749 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2750 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2751 non-existent file that was broken.
2752
b0d9fc80
TK
2753TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2754 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2755
2756TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2757 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2758 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2759
2760TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2761
47c7a64a
PH
2762PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2763 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2764 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2765 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2766 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2767 same time.
2768
a388bce4
SC
2769SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2770 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2771 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2772 at a slight CPU cost.
2773
2774SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2775 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2776
2777SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2778 by Marc Sherman.
2779
0793e4ed
SC
2780SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2781
c58b88df
PH
2782PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2783 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2784
e7ad8a65 2785
7982096b
PH
2786Exim version 4.51
2787-----------------
2788
1a46a8c5
PH
2789TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2790 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2791
2f079f46 2792TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
2793
2794TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2795
2796PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2797 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2798
2799PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2800 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2801 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2802 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2803 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2804 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2805 file.
2806
2807PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2808 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2809 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2810 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2811 these two options.
2812
2813PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2814 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2815 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2816 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2817 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2818 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2819 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 2820 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
2821
2822PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2823 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2824
2825PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2826 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2827 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2828 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2829 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2830 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2831
2832PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2833 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2834 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2835 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2836
2837PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2838 Finch).
2839
2840PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2841 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 2842
49c2d5ea
PH
2843PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2844 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
2845 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2846 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2847 message.
49c2d5ea 2848
bf759a8b
PH
2849PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2850
83364d30
PH
2851PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2852 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2853
7999bbd7
PH
2854PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2855 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2856 to what was transported.)
2857
7dbf77c9
PH
2858TF/01 Added $received_time.
2859
74e0617f
PH
2860PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2861 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2862 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2863 spamd_address settings.
2864
2f079f46
PH
2865PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2866 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2867 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2868 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2869 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2870
8c841523
PH
2871PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2872
7766a4f0
PH
2873PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2874 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2875 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2876 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2877 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2878
8b417f2c
PH
2879PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2880 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2881
901f42cb
PH
2882PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2883 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2884 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2885 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2886 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2887 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2888 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2889 for failure.
2890
f9b9210e
PH
2891PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2892 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2893 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2894 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2895 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2896 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2897 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2898 "input=".
2899
54cdb463
PH
2900PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2901
cf00dad6
PH
2902PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2903 driver and ACL definitions.
2904
acb1b346
PH
2905PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2906 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2907
c5ddb310
PH
2908PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2909 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2910 understands it better than I do:
2911
2912 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2913 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2914
2915 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2916 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2917 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2918 => three warnings about OTP not working
2919 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2920
2921 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2922 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2923 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2924 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2925 for each call.)
2926 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2927 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2928
2929 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2930 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2931 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2932
31619da6
PH
2933PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2934 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2935 specified.
2936
bebaf0fc
PH
2937PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2938 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2939 "Linux".
2940
475fe28a
PH
2941PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2942 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2943 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2944
2945 warn !verify = sender
2946 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2947
2948 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2949 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2950
7e8bec7a
PH
2951PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2952
2953 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2954 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2955
2956 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2957 nomenclature these days.)
2958
e4a89c47
PH
2959PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2960 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2961
5ca2a9a1
PH
2962PH/30 In these circumstances:
2963 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2964 . First host does not offer TLS;
2965 . First host accepts first address;
2966 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2967 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2968 . Second host accepts second address.
2969 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2970 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2971 address.
7e8bec7a 2972
c688b954
PH
2973PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2974 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2975 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2976 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2977 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2978
fed77020
PH
2979PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2980 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2981
7fe1560f
PH
2982PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2983 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 2984
ebb6e6d5
PH
2985PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2986 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2987 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2988
9c4e8f60
PH
2989PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2990 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2991 overlooked.
2992
2993PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2994
d7174846
PH
2995PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2996 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2997 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2998 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2999 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3000 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3001 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3002
3003 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3004 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3005 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3006 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3007 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3008
3009 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3010 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3011 routed further.
3012
cfe75fc3
PH
3013PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3014 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3015 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3016 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3017 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3018 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3019
be22d70e
PH
3020PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3021
0612b098
PH
3022PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3023 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3024 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3025 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3026 printable escape sequences.
3027
2e0c1448
PH
3028PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3029 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3030 body only.
3031
447d236c
PH
3032PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3033 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3034 are as follows:
3035
3036 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3037 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3038 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3039 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3040 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3041
3042 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3043 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3044 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3045
d20976dc
PH
3046PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3047
f656d135
PH
3048PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3049 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3050 play with."
3051
2e2a30b4
PH
3052PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3053 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3054 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3055 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3056 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3057 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3058 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3059 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3060 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3061 the log output.
3062
9176e9f0
PH
3063PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3064 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3065 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3066 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3067 "make".
3068
7982096b 3069
bbe902f0
PH
3070A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3071----------------------------------------
3072
3073Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3074changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3075needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3076in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3077that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3078release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3079from 4.43.
3080
3081I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
30824.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3083those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3084historical information.
3085
3086
f7b63901 3087Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3088-----------------
3089
5fe762f6
PH
3090 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3091
139059f6 3092 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3093 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3094
7086e875
PH
3095 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3096 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3097 place.
3098
35af9f61
PH
3099 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3100 filter fails to execute.
3101
b668c215
PH
3102 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3103 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3104 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3105 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3106 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3107
a494b1e1
PH
3108 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3109
3110 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3111 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3112 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3113 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3114
c5fcb476
PH
3115 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3116 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3117 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3118 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3119 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3120
69358f02
PH
3121 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3122
5be20824
PH
312310. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3124
eb2c0248
PH
312511. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3126 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3127 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3128 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3129
2a3eea10
PH
313012. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3131 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3132 sender verification.
3133
313413. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3135 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3136
23c7ff99
PH
313714. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3138
4deaf07d
PH
313915. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3140 connection timeout.
3141
926e1192
PH
314216. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3143 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3144
650edc6f
PH
314517. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3146 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3147
2c7db3f5
PH
314818. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3149 information about exactly what failed.
3150
3d235903
PH
315119. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3152
7c7ad977
PH
315320. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3154 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3155 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3156
981756db
PH
315721. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3158 It is now set to "smtps".
3159
d4eb88df
PH
316022. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3161 ignore_target_hosts.
3162
316323. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3164 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3165 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3166 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3167 "[x.x.x.x]".
3168
7d468ab8
PH
316924. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3170 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3171 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3172
317325. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3174 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3175 wake it up if nothing else does.
3176
62c0818f
PH
317726. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3178 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3179 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3180 end up negative.
3181
26034054
PH
318227. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3183 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3184
af66f652
PH
318528. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3186
90af77f4
PH
318729. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3188 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3189 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3190 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3191 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3192 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3193 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3194 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3195
d8ef3577
PH
319630. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3197 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3198 than one IP address.
3199
5cb8cbc6
PH
320031. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3201 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3202 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3203 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3204
14702f5b
PH
320532. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3206 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3207 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3208 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3209 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3210 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3211
063b1e99
PH
321233. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3213 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3214 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3215 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3216
652e1b65
PH
321734. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3218 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3219 respected.
3220
6f0c9a4f
PH
322135. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3222 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3223 $sender_host_address.
3224
33397d19
PH
322536. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3226 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3227 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3228 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3229 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3230 very small.
3231
7bb56e1f
PH
323237. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3233
3234 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3235 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3236
ea3bc19b
PH
3237 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3238 just the host names, not the priorities.
3239
3240 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3241 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3242 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3243
ea3bc19b 3244 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3245 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3246
0bcb2a0e
PH
324738. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3248 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3249 domain.
3250
2ac0e484
PH
325139. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3252
4e1fde53
PH
325340. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3254 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3255
de365ded
PH
325641. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3257 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3258 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3259
f05da2e8
PH
326042. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3261
d6453af2
PH
326243. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3263
f7b63901
PH
326444. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3265
326645. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3267 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3268 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3269 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3270 because the tests only now provoked it.
3271
a444213a
PH
327246. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3273 (this can affect the format of dates).
3274
0ec020ea
PH
327547. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3276 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3277 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3278 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3279
b1206957
PH
328048. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3281
328249. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3283 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3284 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3285 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3286
26dd5a95
PH
328750. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3288 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3289 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3290
343b2385
PH
329151. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3292 autoreply.
3293
1c5466b9
PH
329452. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3295 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3296 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3297 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3298 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3299 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3300 is going on).
3301
55ee9ee3
PH
330253. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3303 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3304 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3305 the line.
3306
d38f8232
PH
330754. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3308 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3309 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3310
3311 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3312 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3313 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3314 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3315 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3316 so I produce this patch..."
3317
3295e65b
PH
3318 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3319 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3320 is not defined.
3321
7102e136
PH
332255. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3323 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3324 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3325 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3326 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3327
3ca0ba97
PH
332856. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3329
c2bcbe20
PH
333057. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3331 long debug lines gets shown.
3332
18ce445d
PH
333358. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3334 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3335
1f5b4c3d
PH
333659. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3337
3338 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3339 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3340 of $primary_hostname.
3341
b975ba52
PH
334260. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3343 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3344 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3345 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3346 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3347 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3348 by change 4.50/55 above.
3349
3350 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3351 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3352 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3353 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3354 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3355 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3356 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3357
335861. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3359 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3360 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3361 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3362
17ffcae7
PH
336362. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3364 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3365
d95f9fdb
PH
336663. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3367 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3368 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3369 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3370 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3371
86b8287f
PH
337264. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3373 This has been fixed.
3374
60dc5e56
PH
337565. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3376 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3377 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3378 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3379 the caching.)
3380
533244af
PH
338166. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3382
a5a28604
PH
338367. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3384 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3385 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3386 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3387
7e634d24
PH
338868. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3389 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3390
3e11c26b
PH
339169. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3392 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3393 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3394
6729cf78
PH
339570. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3396 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3397 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3398 message there.
3399
00f00ca5
PH
340071. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3401 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3402 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3403
c9bdd01c
PH
340472. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3405 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3406 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3407 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3408
d43194df
PH
340973. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3410 during host lookups.
3411
fe5b5d0b
PH
341274. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3413 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3414
3415 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3416
76a2d7ba
PH
341775. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3418 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3419 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3420 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3421 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3422 background.
3423
342476. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3425 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3426
04f7d5b9
PH
342777. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3428 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3429 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3430
bc60667e
PH
343178. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3432
bb6e88ff
PH
343379. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3434 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3435 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3436 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3437 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3438 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3439 process earlier.
3440
1e70f85b
PH
344180. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3442 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3443 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3444 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3445 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3446
344781. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3448 tables).
3449
4e01f9d6
PH
345082. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3451
1ee1cef2
PH
345283. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3453 "vacation" handling.
3454
6e2b4ccc
PH
345584. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3456 OS variants using glibc.
3457
8e669ac1
PH
345885. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3459
495ae4b0 3460
bbe902f0
PH
3461----------------------------------------------------
3462See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3463----------------------------------------------------
3464
3465
3466Exim version 4.44
3467-----------------
3468
3469 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3470 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3471 transport
3472
3473 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3474 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3475 place.
3476
3477 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3478 filter fails to execute.
3479
3480 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3481 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3482 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3483 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3484 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3485
3486 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3487 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3488 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3489 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3490
3491 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3492 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3493 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3494 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3495 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3496
3497 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3498
3499 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3500 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3501 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3502 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3503
3504 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3505 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3506 sender verification.
3507
350810. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3509 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3510
351111. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3512 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3513
351412. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3515 ignore_target_hosts.
3516
351713. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3518 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3519 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3520 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3521 "[x.x.x.x]".
3522
352314. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3524 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3525 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3526
352715. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3528 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3529 wake it up if nothing else does.
3530
353116. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3532 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3533 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3534 end up negative.
3535
353617. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3537 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3538
ea3a6f44 353918. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3540
354119. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3542 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3543 empty pattern.
3544
354520. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3546 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3547 one IP address.
3548
ea3a6f44
NM
354921. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3550 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3551 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3552 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3553 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3554 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3555
ea3a6f44
NM
355622. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3557 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3558 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3559
356023. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3561 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3562 $sender_host_address.
3563
356424. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3565
ea3a6f44
NM
356625. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3567 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3568 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3569
357026. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3571 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3572
ea3a6f44
NM
357327. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3574 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3575
ea3a6f44
NM
357628. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3577 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3578 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3579 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3580
358129. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3582 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3583 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3584
ea3a6f44
NM
358530. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3586 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3587 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3588 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3589
ea3a6f44
NM
359031. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3591 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3592 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3593
ea3a6f44
NM
359431. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3595 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3596
ea3a6f44
NM
359732. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3598 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3599 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3600 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3601 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3602 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3603 is going on).
bbe902f0 3604
ea3a6f44
NM
360533. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3606 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3607 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3608 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3609 CAN-2005-0021
3610
ea3a6f44
NM
361134. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3612 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3613 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3614 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3615 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3616 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3617 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3618
3619 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3620 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3621 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3622 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3623 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3624 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3625 CAN-2005-0021
3626
ea3a6f44
NM
362735. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3628 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3629 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3630 CAN-2005-0022
3631
ea3a6f44
NM
363236. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3633 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3634 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3635 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3636 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3637
ea3a6f44
NM
363837. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3639 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3640 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3641 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3642 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3643
ea3a6f44
NM
364438. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3645 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3646 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3647 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3648 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3649
3650
495ae4b0
PH
3651Exim version 4.43
3652-----------------
3653
3654 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3655 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3656 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3657 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3658 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3659 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3660 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3661
3662 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3663 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3664 the delivery.
3665
3666 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3667
3668 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3669
3670 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3671 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3672 to local_scan().
3673
3674 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3675 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3676 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3677 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3678 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3679
3680 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3681 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3682
3683 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3684
3685 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3686
368710. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3688 header_sender only.
3689
369011. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3691 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3692
369312. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3694 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3695 affecting debugging statements).
3696
369713. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3698
369914. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3700 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3701 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3702 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3703 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3704 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3705 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3706 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3707 after the received time, and all would be well.
3708
370915. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3710 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3711 condition in an expansion string.
3712
371316. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3714
371517. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3716 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3717 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3718 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3719 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3720 job under whatever limits there are.
3721
372218. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3723
372419. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3725 space).
3726
372720. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3728 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3729 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3730 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3731 return path is set.
3732
373321. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3734 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3735 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3736 binary data in such strings.
3737
373822. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3739
374023. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3741 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3742 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3743 failure, which is pointless.
3744
374524. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3746
374725. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3748
374926. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3750 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3751 Sender: header lines.
3752
375327. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3754 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3755 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3756
375728. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3758 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3759 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3760 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3761 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3762 happens.
3763
376429. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3765 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3766 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3767 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3768 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3769
377030. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3771 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3772 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3773 1024.
3774
377531. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3776 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3777
377832. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3779 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3780
378133. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3782
378332. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3784
378533. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3786
378734. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3788 syntax error.
3789
379035. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3791
379236. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3793
379437. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3795 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3796 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3797 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3798
379938. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3800 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3801
3802
3803Exim version 4.42
3804-----------------
3805
3806 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3807 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3808 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3809 it was not quoted.
3810 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3811 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3812 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3813 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3814 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3815 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3816
3817 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3818 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3819 verification failure".
3820
3821 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3822 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3823 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3824 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3825
3826 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3827 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3828 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3829 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3830 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3831 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3832 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3833 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3834 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3835 treated as a timeout.
3836
3837 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3838 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3839 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3840 not set for Exim filters).
3841
3842 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3843 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3844 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3845
3846 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3847
3848 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3849 try to make them clearer.
3850
3851 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3852 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3853
3854 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3855
3856 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3857
385810. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3859 only the Cygwin environment.
3860
386111. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3862 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3863 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3864 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3865 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3866
386712. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3868 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3869 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3870 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3871 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3872 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3873 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3874
387513. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3876 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3877
387814. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3879
3880 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3881 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3882 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3883
3884 To: susanne@some.where
3885
3886 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3887 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3888 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3889 of addresses in From: header lines).
3890
3891 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3892 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3893 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3894
3895 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3896 treated as non-personal.
3897
3898 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3899 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3900
390115. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3902
390316. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3904
390517. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3906 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3907 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3908
390918. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3910 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3911
391219. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3913 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3914 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3915 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3916 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3917 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3918
391920. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3920 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3921 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3922 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3923 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3924 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3925 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3926 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3927
3928 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3929
393021. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3931 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3932
393322. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3934 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3935 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3936
393723. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3938 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3939
394024. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
3941 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
3942 rather than long int.
3943
394425. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3945
394626. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
3947
3948
3949Exim version 4.41
3950-----------------
3951
3952 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
3953 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
3954 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
3955 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
3956 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
3957 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
3958
3959
3960Exim version 4.40
3961-----------------
3962
3963 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
3964 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
3965
3966 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
3967 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
3968 socklen_t is defined.
3969
3970 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
3971 always exist.
3972
3973 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
3974 configured.
3975
3976 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
3977 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
3978 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
3979 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
3980 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
3981
3982 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
3983 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
3984 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
3985 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
3986
3987 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
3988 of flapping under certain conditions.
3989
3990 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
3991 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
3992 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
3993
3994 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3995
399610. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
3997
399811. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
3999 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4000 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4001 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4002
400312. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4004 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4005 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4006 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4007 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4008 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4009 preserved with the message after it was received.
4010
401113. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4012 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4013 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4014 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4015 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4016 test suite worked just fine.
4017
401814. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4019 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4020 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4021
402215. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4023 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4024 string.
4025
402616. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4027 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4028 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4029 does not fully solve it.
4030
403117. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4032 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4033 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4034 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4035 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4036
403718. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4038 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4039 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4040
404119. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4042 string, for example:
4043
4044 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4045
4046 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4047 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4048 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4049 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4050 the routers could not see them.
4051
405220. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4053 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4054
405521. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4056 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4057 output).
4058
405922. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4060 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4061 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4062 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4063 that needed quoting.
4064
406523. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4066 was not being matched caselessly.
4067
406824. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4069 backslashes.
4070
407125. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4072 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4073 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4074 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4075 when use_sender is false.
4076
407726. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4078
407927. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4080
408128. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4082
408329. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4084 the configuration file.
4085
408630. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4087 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4088
408931. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4090
409132. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4092 bytes in the message body.
4093
409433. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4095 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4096 delivery.
4097
409834. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4099
410035. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4101
410236. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4103 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4104 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4105 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4106 another IP address.
4107
4108
4109Exim version 4.34
4110-----------------
4111
4112 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4113 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4114
4115 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4116 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4117 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4118 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4119 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4120
4121 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4122 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4123
4124 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4125 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4126 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4127
4128 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4129 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4130 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4131
4132 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4133 for routers.
4134
4135 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4136 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4137 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4138 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4139 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4140 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4141 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4142
4143
4144Exim version 4.33
4145-----------------
4146
4147 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4148 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4149 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4150 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4151 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4152 default (and expected) setting.
4153
4154 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4155 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4156 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4157 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4158
4159 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4160 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4161
4162 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4163 in domain lists.
4164
4165 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4166 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4167 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4168 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4169 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4170 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4171
4172 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4173 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4174 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4175
4176 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4177 part (NOT match_host).
4178
4179 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4180
4181 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4182 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4183 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4184 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4185 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4186 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4187 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4188 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4189 the same named file.
4190
419110. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4192 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4193 when Exim is built.
4194
419511. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4196 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4197 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4198 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4199 a host name.
4200
420112. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4202 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4203 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4204
420513. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4206
420714. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4208
420915. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4210
421116. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4212 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4213
421417. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4215 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4216 before starting the TLS session.
4217
421818. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4219
422019. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4221 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4222
422320. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4224 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4225 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4226 colon in the middle).
4227
4228
4229Exim version 4.32
4230-----------------
4231
4232 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4233 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4234 multiple configurations are in use.
4235
4236 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4237 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4238 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4239 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4240 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4241 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4242
4243 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4244 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4245
4246 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4247 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4248 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4249
4250 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4251 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4252 occurs.
4253
4254 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4255 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4256
4257 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4258
4259 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4260 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4261
4262 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4263
4264 -prval:sval
4265
4266 is equivalent to
4267
4268 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4269
4270 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4271 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4272 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4273 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4274 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4275
427610. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4277 Exim's behaviour:
4278
4279 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4280 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4281 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4282 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4283 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4284 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4285
4286 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4287 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4288 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4289 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4290 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4291 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4292 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4293 string.
4294
4295 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4296 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4297 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4298 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4299 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4300
430111. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4302
430312. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4304 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4305 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4306
430713. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4308
430914. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4310 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4311 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4312 information.
4313
431415. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4315 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4316
431716. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4318 Three changes have been made:
4319
4320 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4321 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4322 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4323 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4324 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4325
4326 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4327 been restored.
4328
4329 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4330 the modified behaviour.
4331
4332
4333Exim version 4.31
4334-----------------
4335
4336 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4337 Larry Rosenman.
4338
4339 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4340 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4341
4342 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4343 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4344 try to track down a specific problem.
4345
4346 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4347 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4348 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4349
4350 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4351 warning.
4352
4353 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4354 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4355 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4356 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4357 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4358 some earlier ones do not.
4359
4360 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4361
4362 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4363 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4364 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4365 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4366 address literals are enabled, of course).
4367
4368 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4369
437010. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4371 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4372 by a command such as
4373
4374 exim -f "" ...
4375
4376 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4377
437811. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4379
438012. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4381 remained set. It is now erased.
4382
438313. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4384 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4385
438614. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4387 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4388 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4389 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4390 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4391 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4392 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4393 appropriate error code.
4394
439515. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4396 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4397 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4398 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4399 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4400 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4401
440216. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4403 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4404 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4405
440617. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4407 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4408 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4409 terminate the header.
4410
441118. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4412 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4413 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4414
441519. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4416 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4417 (4.30/29). In particular:
4418
4419 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4420 imposed.
4421
4422 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4423 to write a maildirsize file.
4424
4425 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4426 the transport, the new value overrides.
4427
4428 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4429 count.
4430
443120. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4432 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4433 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4434 space or a tab.
4435
443621. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4437 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4438 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4439 the fallback hosts.
4440
444122. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4442 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4443 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4444
444523. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4446 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4447 using a union.
4448
444924. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4450 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4451 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4452
445325. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4454
445526. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4456
445727. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4458
445928. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4460 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4461 become corrupted.
4462
446329. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4464 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4465 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4466 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4467 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4468 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4469 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4470 too great.
4471
447230. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4473 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4474 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4475 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4476 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4477 incorrectly.
4478
447931. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4480 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4481 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4482 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4483 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4484 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4485 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4486 cached value only when the same options are set.
4487
448832. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4489
449033. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4491 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4492 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4493 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4494 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4495
449634: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4497 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4498 it is clearly obsolete.
4499
450035. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4501 transport.
4502
450336. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4504 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4505 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4506 times.
4507
450837. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4509 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4510 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4511 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4512 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4513
451438. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4515 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4516 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4517 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4518
451939. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4520
4521 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4522
4523 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4524 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4525 2^31.
4526
452740. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4528 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4529 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4530 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4531 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4532 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4533 $localpart_data.
4534
453541. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4536 with the -f command-line option.
4537
453842. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4539 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4540 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4541 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4542 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4543 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4544
454543. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4546 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4547 line.
4548
454944. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4550 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4551 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4552 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4553 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4554 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4555 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4556 buffer is too small.
4557
455845. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4559 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4560
456146. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4562 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4563 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4564 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4565 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4566 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4567 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4568 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4569 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4570
457147. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4572 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4573 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4574
457548. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4576 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4577 ACL").
4578
457949. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4580 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4581 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4582 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4583 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4584
458550. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4586 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4587 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4588 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4589 is set.
4590
459151. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4592
459352. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4594
459553. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4596 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4597
459854. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4599 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4600 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4601
460255. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4603 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4604 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4605 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4606 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4607
460856. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4609 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4610 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4611 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4612 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4613 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4614 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4615
461657. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4617 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4618 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4619 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4620 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4621 the test of how many are available.
4622
462358. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4624 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4625 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4626 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4627 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4628 new message is started.
4629
463059. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4631 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4632
463360. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4634 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4635
463661. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4637 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4638 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4639 is no long logged.
4640
464162. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4642 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4643 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4644 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4645 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4646 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4647 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4648
464963. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4650 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4651 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4652 interpreted as octal.
4653
465464. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4655 setting.
4656
465765. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4658 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4659 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4660 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4661 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4662 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4663
466466. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4665 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4666 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4667 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4668
4669 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4670 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4671 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4672 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4673
4674 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4675 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4676 is a bug fix.
4677
4678 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4679 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4680
468167. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4682
468368. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4684 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4685 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4686 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4687
468869. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4689 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4690 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4691 supplied", which is not helpful.
4692
469370. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4694 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4695 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4696
469771. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4698 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4699 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4700 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4701 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4702 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4703 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4704 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4705
470672. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4707 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4708 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4709 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4710 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4711
471273. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4713 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4714 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4715 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4716 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4717 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4718
471974. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4720 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4721 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4722
472375. Added write_rejectlog option.
4724
472576. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4726 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4727 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4728 variables.
4729
473077. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4731
473278. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4733 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4734 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4735 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4736 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4737 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4738 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4739 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4740
474179. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4742 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4743 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4744 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4745 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4746
474780. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4748 Haardt.
4749
475081. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4751 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4752 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4753 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4754 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4755 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4756 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4757 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4758 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4759
4760
4761Exim version 4.30
4762-----------------
4763
4764 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4765 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4766 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4767
4768 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4769 fixed.
4770
4771 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4772 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4773 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4774
4775 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4776 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4777 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4778 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4779 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4780 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4781
4782 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4783 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4784 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4785 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4786 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4787 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4788 the Exim test suite.
4789
4790 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4791 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4792 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4793 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4794
4795 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4796 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4797 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4798 specify it in this variable.
4799
4800 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4801 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4802 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4803 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4804
4805 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4806 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4807 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4808 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4809
4810 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4811 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4812 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4813 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4814 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4815
4816 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4817
481810. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4819 they are logged.
4820
482111. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4822 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4823 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4824 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4825 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4826
482712. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4828 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4829
483013. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4831 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4832 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4833 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4834 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4835
483614. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4837 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4838
483915. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4840 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4841 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4842
484316. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4844 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4845
484617. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4847 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4848
484918. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4850 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4851 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4852
485319. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4854 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4855
485620. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4857 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4858 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4859 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4860
486121. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4862
486322. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4864 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4865 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
4866 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
4867
486823. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
4869
487024. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
4871 line; previously there was no indication of these.
4872
487325. Added .include_if_exists.
4874
487526. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
4876 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
4877 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
4878 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
4879 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
4880 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
4881
488227. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
4883
488428. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
4885 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
4886 this.
4887
488829. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
4889
489030. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
4891 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
4892
4893 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
4894 550 Sender verify failed
4895
4896 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
4897 the final line of the response.
4898
489931. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
4900 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
4901 all other user lookups.
4902
490332. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
4904 delivery time.
4905
490633. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
4907 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
4908 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
4909 result into an int without checking.
4910
491134. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
4912 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4913 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
4914
491535. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
4916 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
4917 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
4918 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
4919
492036. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
4921 correctly.
4922
492337. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
4924 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
4925
492638. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
4927 to the empty sender.
4928
492939. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
4930 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
4931 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
4932 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
4933 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
4934 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
4935 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
4936 panic log.
4937
493840. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
4939 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
4940 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
4941 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
4942 used.
4943
494441. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
4945 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
4946
494742. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
4948 timestamps.
4949
495043. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
4951 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
4952
495344. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
4954
495545. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
4956 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
4957 logs.
4958
495946. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
4960 as soon as it is encountered.
4961
496247. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
4963
496448. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
4965 rewritten to "<>".
4966
496749. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
4968 recognizes a tab character.
4969
497050. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
4971 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
4972 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
4973 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
4974
497551. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
4976
497752. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
4978 crash.
4979
498053. Installed eximstats 1.29.
4981
498254. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
4983
498455. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
4985 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
4986 2822.
4987
498856. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
4989 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
4990 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
4991 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
4992 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
4993
499457. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
4995 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
4996
499758. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
4998 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
4999 list (.included file names were always shown).
5000
500159. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5002 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5003 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5004 root at that time.
5005
500660. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5007 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5008
500961. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5010
501162. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5012
501363. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5014
501564. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5016 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5017 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5018 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5019 failures to open the logs.
5020
502165. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5022 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5023 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5024 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5025 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5026 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5027 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5028
5029
5030Exim version 4.24
5031-----------------
5032
5033 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5034 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5035 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5036 change 4.23/1.
5037
5038 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5039 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5040 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5041
5042 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5043 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5044 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5045
5046 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5047 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5048 causing some misleading effects.
5049
5050 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5051 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5052 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5053
5054 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5055 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5056 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5057 queue-runner function directly.
5058
5059
5060Exim version 4.23
5061-----------------
5062
5063 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5064 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5065
5066 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5067 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5068 was always written to the default place.
5069
5070 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5071 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5072 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5073
5074 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5075
5076 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5077
5078 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5079 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5080 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5081
5082 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5083 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5084 must start.
5085
5086 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5087 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5088 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5089
5090 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5091 command line option is disabled.
5092
5093 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5094 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5095
5096 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5097
5098 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5099
5100 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5101 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5102
510310. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5104
510511. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5106 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5107 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5108 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5109 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5110 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5111
511212. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5113 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5114 timeout.
5115
511613. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5117 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5118
511914. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5120 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5121
512215. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5123 received was valid base64.
5124
512516. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5126 name of the variable that was being set.
5127
512817. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5129
513018. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5131 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5132 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5133 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5134 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5135 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5136
513719. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5138
513920. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5140 nor realm was specified.
5141
514221. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5143 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5144 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5145 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5146
514722. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5148 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5149 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5150
515123. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5152 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5153 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5154
515524. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5156 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5157 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5158 some systems use these upper case variants.
5159
516025. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5161 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5162 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5163 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5164
516526. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5166
516727. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5168 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5169
517028. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5171 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5172 expansion variable.
5173
517429. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5175
517630. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5177 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5178 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5179 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5180
518131. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5182 using it.
5183
518432. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5185 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5186 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5187
518833. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5189 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5190
519134. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5192 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5193 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5194 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5195
519635. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5197 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5198 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5199
520036. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5201
520237. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5203 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5204 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5205 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5206 aborted.
5207
520838. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5209 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5210 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5211
521239. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5213
521440. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5215 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5216
521741. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5218 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5219
522042. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5221 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5222 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5223 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5224 when emails are that large.
5225
5226
5227
5228Exim version 4.22
5229-----------------
5230
5231 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5232 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5233
5234 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5235 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5236 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5237
5238 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5239 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5240 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5241
5242 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5243 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5244 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5245 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5246 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5247
5248 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5249 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5250 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5251 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5252 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5253 ever.
5254
5255 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5256 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5257 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5258 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5259 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5260 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5261 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5262 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5263 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5264 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5265 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5266 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5267 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5268 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5269
5270 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5271 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5272 parameterised it.
5273
5274 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5275 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5276 error should be diagnosed.
5277
5278 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5279 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5280 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5281 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5282 appeared instead of "NULL".
5283
528410. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5285 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5286 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5287 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5288 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5289 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5290 proceeds).
5291
5292 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5293 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5294 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5295
5296
5297Exim version 4.21
5298-----------------
5299
5300 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5301 or receiver verification errors.
5302
5303 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5304 name.
5305
5306 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5307 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5308 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5309 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5310
5311 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5312 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5313 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5314 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5315 shouldn't happen again.
5316
5317 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5318 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5319 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5320
5321 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5322 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5323
5324 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5325
5326 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5327 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5328
5329 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5330 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5331 RFC.
5332
533310. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5334 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5335 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5336
533711. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5338 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5339 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5340 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5341
534212. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5343 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5344 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5345 to define what should happen).
5346
534713. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5348 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5349 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5350
535114. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5352
535315. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5354
535516. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5356 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5357
535817. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5359 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5360 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5361 structure in all cases.
5362
5363 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5364 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5365 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5366 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5367
536818. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5369 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5370 domain name.
5371
537219. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5373 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5374
537520. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5376 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5377
537821. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5379 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5380 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5381
538222. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5383 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5384 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5385
538623. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5387 the book and for uniformity.
5388
538924. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5390
539125. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5392 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5393 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5394 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5395 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5396 non-existent command as the problem.
5397
539826. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5399 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5400 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5401
540227. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5403
540428. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5405 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5406 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5407
540829. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5409 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5410 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5411 timestamps using strftime().
5412
541330. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5414 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5415
541632. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5417 transport-time rewrites.
5418
541933. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5420 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5421 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5422 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5423
542434. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5425 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5426
542735. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5428 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5429 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5430 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5431 comma and a space.
5432
543336. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5434 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5435 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5436 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5437 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5438 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5439 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5440
544137. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5442 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5443 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5444 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5445 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5446
544738. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5448 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5449 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5450 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5451 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5452 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5453 remaining text gets split now.
5454
545539. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5456 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5457 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5458 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5459
546040. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5461 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5462 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5463 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5464 $return_path.
5465
546641. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5467 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5468 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5469 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5470 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5471 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5472 passed through if needed.
5473
547442. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5475 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5476 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5477 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5478 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5479 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5480
548143. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5482 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5483 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5484 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5485 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5486
548744. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5488 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5489 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5490 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5491 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5492
549345. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5494 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5495 noticed.
5496
549746. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5498 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5499 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5500 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5501 mayhem of various kinds.
5502
550347. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5504 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5505 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5506 the right test for positive values.
5507
550848. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5509 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5510 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5511 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5512 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5513 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5514 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5515 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5516 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5517 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5518 envelope.
5519
552049. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5521 module.
5522
552350. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5524 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5525 forbidding it.
5526
552751. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5528 the existing equality matching.
5529
553052. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5531 dealing with inode numbers.
5532
553353. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5534 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5535 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5536
553754. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5538 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5539 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5540 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5541 local_scan().
5542
554355. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5544 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5545 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5546 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5547 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5548 relay addresses has also been removed.
5549
555056. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5551
555257. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5553 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5554 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5555
555658. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5557 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5558 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5559 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5560 processing applies to CR:
5561
5562 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5563 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5564
5565 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5566 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5567 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5568 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5569
557059. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5571 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5572 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5573
557460. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5575 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5576 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5577 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5578 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5579 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5580 arisen.
5581
558261. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5583 program routers.
5584
558562. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5586 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5587 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5588 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5589 adds:
5590
5591 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5592
5593 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5594
5595 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5596
559763. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5598 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5599 not considered personal.
5600
560164. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5602
560365. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5604
560566. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5606
560767. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5608 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5609 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5610 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5611 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5612 header lines, and spool format errors.
5613
561468. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5615 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5616 for more flexibility.
5617
561869. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5619 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5620 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5621
562270. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5623 Sabourenkov.
5624
562571. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5626 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5627 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5628 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5629 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5630 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5631 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5632 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5633 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5634
563572. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5636 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5637 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5638 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5639 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5640 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5641 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5642
564373. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5644 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5645 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5646
564774. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5648 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5649 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5650 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5651 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5652 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5653 instead of killing the process with assert().
5654
565575. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5656 than Unicode encoding.
5657
565876. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5659 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5660 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5661 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5662
566377. Added process_log_path.
5664
566578. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5666 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5667
566879. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5669 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5670
567180. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5672 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5673 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5674
567581. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5676 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5677 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5678 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5679 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5680 were applied:
5681
5682 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5683 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5684 as invalid.
5685
568682. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5687 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5688 they will be used during message reception.
5689
5690
5691Exim version 4.20
5692-----------------
5693
5694The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
5695
5696****