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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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7PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
8 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
9 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
10
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11NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
12
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13NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
14 improved.
15
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16NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
17
c1e794ba 18PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 19
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20PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
21
22PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
23 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
24
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25PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
26 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
27
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28PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
29 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
30
f1e05cc7 31PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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32 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
33 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 34
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35PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
36
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37PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
38 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
39
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40PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
41
c45dd180 42PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 43
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44PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
45 non-compliant senders.
46 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
47
eae0036b 48NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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49 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
50 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
51
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52PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
53 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
54 in spool file corruption.
55
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56PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
57 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
58 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
59 "Got SSL error 2".
60
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61TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
62 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
63 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
64
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65JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
66 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
67
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68JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
69
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70PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
71 diagnostics.
72 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
73
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74PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
75 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
76 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
77
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78PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
79 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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80 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
81 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 82
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83PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
84 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
85
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86PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
87 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
88 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
89 resolver implementation change.
90
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91PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
92 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
93
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94PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
95
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96PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
97
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98PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
99 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
100
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101PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
102 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
103
9e45c72b 104JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
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105 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
106
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107PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
108 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
109 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
110 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 111 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 112
53947857 113PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 114
eae0036b 115PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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116 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
117 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 118
9e45c72b 119JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 120
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121PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
122 read-only, out of scope).
123 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
124
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125PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
126 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
127 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
128 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
129
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130PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
131
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132PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
133 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
134 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
135 real issues in debug logging.
136
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137PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
138 assignment on my part. Fixed.
139
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141Exim version 4.77
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143
144PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
145 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
146
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147TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
148
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149TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
150 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 151
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152TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
153 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
154
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155TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
156 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
157 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
158
159 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
160 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
161 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
162 not safe for signals.
163
164 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
165 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
166 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
167 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
168 exiwhat.
169
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170TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
171
172 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
173 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
174 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
175 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
176 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
177
178 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
179 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
180 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
181 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
182 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
183 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
184
185 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
186 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
187 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
188 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
189
190 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
191 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
192 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
193 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
194
195 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
196 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
197 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
198 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
199 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
200 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
201 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
202 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
203 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
204
205 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
206 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
207 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
208 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
209
210 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
211 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
212 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
213 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
214 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
215 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
216 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
217 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
218 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
219 details in the main documentation.
220
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221TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
222
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223TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
224
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225TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
226 repository when doing development or release builds.
227
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228PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
229 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 230
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231PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
232 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
233 Bugzilla 97.
234
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235PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
236
9e949f00 237PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
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238 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
239
240PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
241 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 242
555ae6af 243PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
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244 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
245
246PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
247 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 248
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249PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
250 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
251
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252PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
253 Bugzilla 1156.
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254 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
255 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 256
d6cc7c78 257PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
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258 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
259 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
260
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261PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
262
3399bb60 263PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
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264
265PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
266 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
267
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269Exim version 4.76
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271
272PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
273
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274PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
275 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
276
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277PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
278
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279PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
280
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281PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
282 Bugzilla 1098.
283
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284PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
285 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 286
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287TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
288 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
289
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290PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
291 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
292
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293PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
294 Bugzilla 1104.
295
c8d52a00 296TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
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297 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
298
299TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
300 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
301 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
302 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
303
304PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
305 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 306
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308Exim version 4.75
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310
4c9ef03a 311NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
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312 Bugzilla 1073
313
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314TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
315 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
316 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
317
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318TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
319 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
320
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321PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
322 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
323 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
324
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325PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
326 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
327
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328PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
329 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
330
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331NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
332 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
333
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334NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
335 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
336
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337PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
338 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 339
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340NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
341 Fixes bug 943.
342
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343PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
344 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
345
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346PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
347 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
348
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349PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
350 SQL string expansion failure details.
351 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
352
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353PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
354 Patch from Simon Arlott.
355
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356PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
357 extern declarations in function scope.
358 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
359
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360PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
361 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
362 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
363 a kernel bug).
364
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365PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
366 Patch from Mark Zealey.
367
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368PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
369 Patch from Mark Zealey.
370
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371PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
372 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
373
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374PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
375 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
376
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377NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
378 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
379 Dennis Davis.
380
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381PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
382
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383PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
384
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385NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
386 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 387
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388TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
389 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
390
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392Exim version 4.74
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394
395TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
396 consequences so log it to the panic log.
397
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398TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
399 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
400
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401TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
402
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403DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
404 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
405 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
406
407PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
408 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
409 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
410
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411PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
412 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
413 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
414 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
415
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416PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
417 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
418 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
419 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
420
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421PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
422 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
423 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
424 arbitrary files.
425
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426PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
427 (Wolfgang Breyha)
428
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429PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
430 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
431 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
432 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
433 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
434
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438
439PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
440 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
441 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
442
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443PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
444 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
445
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446JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
447
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448PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
449
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450PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
451
ec5a0394 452PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 453
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454PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
455
453a6645 456PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
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457 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
458 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
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459 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
460
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461PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
462 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
463 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
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464 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
465 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 466
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467PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
468
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469PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
470
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471PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
472
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473PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
474
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475PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
476
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477PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
478
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479PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
480
6a8de854 481PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
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482 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
483 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 484
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485JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
486
487JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
488 "exim" to be used
55c75993 489
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490PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
491 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
492
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493PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
494 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
495 Notification from John Horne.
496
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497PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
498 compatible.
499
500PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
501 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
502 it normally works.
503
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504DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
505 access.
506
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507DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
508 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
509 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
510
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511DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
512 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
513 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
514 configuration file.
515
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516DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
517 option (effectively making it always true).
518
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519DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
520 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
521
fa32850b
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522DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
523 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
524
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525PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
526 run-time user, instead of root.
527
43236f35 528PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
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529 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
530
fb08281f
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531DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
532 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
533 arguments.
3346ab01 534
74935b98
DW
535DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
536 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
537 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
538
90b6341f
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539DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
540
57730b52
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541NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
542
66581d1e 543
465e92cf
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544Exim version 4.72
545-----------------
546
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547JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
548 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
549 typos
465e92cf 550
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551JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
552 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
553 (Finput)
edae0343 554
9bd3e22c
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555NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
556 Patch from Alain Williams
557
bb576ff7
NM
558NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
559
5a1a5845
NM
560NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
561 Patch from Andreas Metzler
562
981a9fad
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563NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
564 Patch from Kirill Miazine
565
7fc497ee
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566NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
567
1a41defa
JJ
568JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
569
a466095c 570NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 571 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 572
94a6bd0b
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573TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
574
575TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
576
577MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
578 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
579 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
580
c1b141a8
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581NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
582 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 583
b26eacf1 584NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
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585 Patch by Simon Arlott
586
179c5980 587PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 588 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 589
9bd3e22c 590
7c6d71af
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591Exim version 4.71
592-----------------
593
7d9f747b 594TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 595
f013fb92
NM
596NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
597
0eb8eedd
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598NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
599
663ee6d9
NM
600NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
601
177ebd9b
NM
602NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
603
7c6d71af 604
210f147e
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605Exim version 4.70
606-----------------
607
cdd3bb85 608TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 609 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
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610
611TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
612 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 613 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
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614
615TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
616 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 617 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
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618
619TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
620 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
621
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622NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
623 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
624 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
625 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
626
deafd5b3
NM
627NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
628 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 629 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 630
089793a4
TF
631TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
632
5f16ca82
TF
633TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
634
dae9d94e 635NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 636 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 637
7d9f747b 638NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 639
06864c44
TF
640TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
641 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
642 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
643 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
644
65a7d8c3 645NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 646 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 647
23510047 648TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 649
7d9f747b 650NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 651
7d8eec3a 652NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 653 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 654
89dec7b6
TF
655TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
656 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 657
a99de90c
TF
658TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
659 that they are available at delivery time.
660
e2803e40
TF
661TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
662
7199e1ee
TF
663TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
664 incoming_port log selectors.
665
e276e04b
TF
666TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
667 setting expands to an empty string.
668
ce552449 669NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 670 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 671
e765a0f1 672NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 673 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 674
4f054c63 675NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 676 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 677
7d9f747b
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678NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
679 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 680
7d9f747b
PP
681NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
682 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 683
b52bc06e 684NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 685 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 686
447de4b0
NM
687NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
688
4c69d561 689NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 690 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 691
d5c39246 692NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 693 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 694
0b23848a
TK
695TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
696
8f3414a1 697NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 698 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 699
fb6f955d
NM
700NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
701
702NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 703
7d9f747b
PP
704NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
705 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 706
7d9f747b
PP
707NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
708 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 709
7d9f747b
PP
710NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
711 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 712
7d9f747b
PP
713NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
714 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 715
7d9f747b
PP
716NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
717 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 718
7d9f747b
PP
719NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
720 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 721
7d9f747b
PP
722NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
723 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 724
7d9f747b 725NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 726 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 727
7d9f747b 728NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 729
7d9f747b
PP
730NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
731 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 732
7d9f747b 733NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 734
7d9f747b 735NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 736
7d9f747b 737NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 738
7d9f747b 739NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 740
17792b53 741NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 742 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 743
7d9f747b
PP
744NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
745 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 746
7d9f747b
PP
747NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mistmatches.
748 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 749
7d9f747b
PP
750NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
751 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 752
7d9f747b 753NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 754
7d9f747b 755NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 756
7d9f747b 757NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 758
7d9f747b 759NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 760
deafd5b3 761
47db1125
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762Exim version 4.69
763-----------------
764
4b3504d0
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765TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
766 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
767 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
768
769 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
770 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
771 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
772 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
773 build errors in sieve.c.
774
81ea09ca
NM
775NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
776 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
777 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
778
f13cddcb
SC
779SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
780
7d9f747b 781NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 782
7d9f747b 783NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 784
7d9f747b 785NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
786
787
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788Exim version 4.68
789-----------------
790
791PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
792
6a3bceb1
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793PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
794 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
795 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
796 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
797 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
798 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
799 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
800 for iplsearch lookups.
801
802 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
803 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
804 previously such lookups could never work.
805
806 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
807 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
808 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
809
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810TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
811 version.
812
0806a9c5
MH
813MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
814 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
815 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
816 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
817 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
818 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
819
ae276964
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820TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
821 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
822
0f2cbd1b
MH
823MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
824 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
825 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
826 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
827 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
828 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
829
2b85bce7
PH
830PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
831 local_scan API.
832
93655c46
PH
833PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
834
6c512171
PH
835PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
836 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
837 encrypted.
838
839PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
840 by clients under certain conditions.
841
aa6dc513
PH
842PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
843 "_responses" off the end of the name.
844
a96603a0
PH
845PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
846
8f240103
PH
847PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
848 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
849
850PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
851
d677b2f2
PH
852PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
853
d52120f2
PH
854PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
855
64f2600a
PH
856PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
857 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
858
8669f003
PH
859PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
860
a4dc33a8
PH
861PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
862 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
863
d6a60c0f
PH
864PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
865
8f128379
PH
866PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
867
8932dffe
PH
868PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
869 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
870 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
871 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 872
ddea74fa 873PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
874 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
875 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
876
ddea74fa 877PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
878 and InterBase are left for another time.)
879
ddea74fa
PH
880PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
881
ce9f225c
PH
882PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
883
19897d52
PH
884PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
885
bc64a74d
PH
886PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
887 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
888 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
889
eb4c0de6 890
b4ed4da0
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891Exim version 4.67
892-----------------
893
22ad45c9
MH
894MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
895 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
896 Jan Srzednicki.
897
b4ed4da0
PH
898PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
899 issue a MAIL command.
900
431b7361
PH
901PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
902
903 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
904
905 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
906 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
907 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
908 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
909 item. This has been fixed.
910
911PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
912 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
913
83da1223
PH
914PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
915 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
916
54fc8428
PH
917PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
918 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
919 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
920
34c5e8dd
SC
921SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
922
bbe15da8
PH
923PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
924 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
925 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
926 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
927 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
928
0e8a9471
MH
929MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
930 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
931 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
932
f0872424
PH
933PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
934 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
935 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
936 the server_setid option was incorrect.
937
b01dd148
PH
938PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
939
6bf342e1
PH
940PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
941
273f34d0
PH
942PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
943 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
944 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
945 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
946 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
947
cf8b11a5
PH
948PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
949
41c7c167
PH
950PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
951 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
952 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
953 values).
954
9c57cbc0
PH
955PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
956
f3f065bb
PH
957PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
958
047bdd8c
PH
959PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
960
0ce9abe6
PH
961PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
962
0e22dfd1
PH
963PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
964
4c590bd1
PH
965PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
966 no_callout_flush is set.
967
09945f1e
PH
968PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
969 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
970 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
971 fixed.
972
c51b8e75
PH
973PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
974
e28326d8
PH
975PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
976 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
977 other ACL rejections are.
978
75b1493f
PH
979PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
980 with slight modification.
981
7c5214ec
PH
982PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
983 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
984
4311097e
PH
985PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
986 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
987 connection.
988
29f89cad
PH
989PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
990 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
991
5e687460
SC
992SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
993
c3611384
PH
994PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
995 expansion side effects.
996
5a11a7b4
PH
997PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
998 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
999 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1000 be the same.
1001
0e20aff9
MH
1002MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1003 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1004 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1005
ca86f471
PH
1006PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1007 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1008 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1009 were accidentally chopped off.
1010
a14e5636
PH
1011PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1012 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1013 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1014 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1015 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1016 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1017 pipelining has not been advertised.
1018
ec95d1a6
PH
1019PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1020
42855d71
PH
1021PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1022 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1023 This has been fixed.
1024
57c2c631
PH
1025PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1026 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1027 reported on Solaris.
1028
58c01c94
PH
1029PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1030 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1031 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1032 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1033 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1034 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1035 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1036
dee5a20a
PH
1037PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1038 cpus.
1039
d2ee6114
PH
1040PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1041
b2d5182b
PH
1042PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1043
79749a79
PH
1044PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1045 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1046 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1047 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1048 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1049 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1050
c456d9bb
PH
1051PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1052 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1053 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1054 host_all_ignored option.
1055
cd9868ec
PH
1056PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1057 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1058 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1059 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1060 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1061 is what is supposed to happen).
1062
ebeaf996
PH
1063PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1064 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1065 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1066 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1067 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1068 uses the Exim user.
1069
2679d413
PH
1070PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1071 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1072 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1073 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1074 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1075 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1076 users.
1077
84024b72
PH
1078PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1079
8005d38e
SC
1080SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1081 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1082 (Jez Hancock).
1083 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1084 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1085
3298c6c6
SC
1086SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1087
a43a27c5
PH
1088PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1089
58eb016e 1090PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1091 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1092 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1093 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1094 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1095 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1096 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1097 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1098 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1099 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1100 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1101
b43a74ea
PH
1102PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1103 advertised in response to EHLO.
1104
b4ed4da0 1105
5dd1517f
PH
1106Exim version 4.66
1107-----------------
1108
1109PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1110 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1111
1112 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1113 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1114
1115 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1116 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1117 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1118
1119 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1120 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1121 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1122 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1123 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1124
1125
93cfa765
TK
1126Exim version 4.65
1127-----------------
1128
1129TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1130 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1131 versions. (#438)
1132
d6066548
MH
1133MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1134 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1135 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1136
4362ff0d
PH
1137PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1138 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1139 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1140 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1141 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1142 rather than extend the field.
1143
93cfa765 1144
944e9e9c
TF
1145Exim version 4.64
1146-----------------
aa41d2de 1147
21d74bd9
TK
1148TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1149 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1150 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1151 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1152 these files.
1153
1154TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1155 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1156 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1157
1158TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1159 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1160 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1161
1162TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1163 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1164 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1165 in the field name.
1166
2b1c6e3a
PH
1167PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1168 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1169 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1170 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1171 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1172 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1173 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1174 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1175 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1176 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1177 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1178
1f872c80
PH
1179PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1180 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1181
1182PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1183 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1184 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1185 ignores EPIPE as well.
1186
d203e649
PH
1187PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1188 (quoted-printable decoding).
1189
cc2ed8f7 1190PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1191 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1192
ddfcd446
PH
1193PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1194
d45b1de8
PH
1195PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1196
1197PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1198
38a0a95f 1199PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1200 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1201
a2405d83
JJ
1202JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1203 in 4.64-PH/09.
1204
1205JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1206 miscellaneous code fixes
1207
6ea85e9a
PH
1208PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1209 rejections.
1210
26da7e20
PH
1211PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1212 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1213 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1214 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1215 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1216 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1217 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1218 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1219
14aa5a05 1220PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1221 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1222 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1223 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1224 function.
1225 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1226 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1227 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1228 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1229 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1230 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1231 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1232 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1233 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1234
ff75a1f7
PH
1235PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1236 decoding.
1237
e6f6568e
PH
1238PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1239 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1240 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1241 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1242 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1243 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1244 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1245 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1246
d6f6e0dc
PH
1247PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1248 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1249 list.
1250
322050c2
PH
1251PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1252 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1253 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1254 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1255 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1256 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1257 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1258 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1259 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1260 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1261 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1262 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1263 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1264
08955dd3
PH
1265PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1266 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1267 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1268 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1269 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1270 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1271 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1272
1eccaa59
PH
1273PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1274 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1275 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1276 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1277 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1278 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1279 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1280 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1281 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1282 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1283
602e59e5
PH
1284PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1285 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1286 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1287 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1288 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1289
411ef850
PH
1290PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1291 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1292 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1293 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1294 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1295 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1296 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1297
7befa435
PH
1298PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1299 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1300 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1301 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1302 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1303 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1304 been verified.
1305
48da4259 1306PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1307 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1308 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1309 and authorization.)
1310
48da4259
PH
1311PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1312 if any retry times were supplied.
1313
d1d5595c
PH
1314PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1315 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1316 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1317
0ef732d9
PH
1318PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1319
328895cc
PH
1320PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1321
fd700877
PH
1322PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1323 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1324 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1325 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1326 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1327 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1328
8dce1a6f
PH
1329PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1330 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1331
17af4a17
PH
1332PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1333 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1334 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1335
1336PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1337 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1338 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1339 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1340 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1341 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1342 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1343 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1344 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1345
1346 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1347 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1348 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1349 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1350 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1351 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1352 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1353 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1354 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1355
1356 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1357 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1358 hammering the server.
1359
c1114884
PH
1360PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1361 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1362
7a0743eb
PH
1363PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1364
0d85fa3f
PH
1365PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1366 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1367 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1368
1bf43b78
PH
1369PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1370 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1371 one case where this was not true.
1372
520de300
PH
1373PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1374 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1375 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1376 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1377 fails.
1378
48c7f9e2
PH
1379PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1380 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1381 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1382 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1383 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1384 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1385 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1386 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1387 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1388 smtp transport.
1389
99ea1c86
PH
1390PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1391 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1392 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1393 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1394
a2042e78
PH
1395PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1396 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1397
4fbcfc2e
PH
1398PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1399 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1400 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1401
aa41d2de
PH
1402PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1403
af561417
PH
1404PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1405
3cc66b45
PH
1406PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1407
194cc0e4
PH
1408PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1409 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1410 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1411 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1412
a401ddaa
PH
1413PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1414 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1415
4e88a19f
PH
1416PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1417 be meaningful with "accept".
1418
d7d7b289
SC
1419SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1420 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1421
1422SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1423 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1424 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1425
1426SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1427 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1428 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1429 there is data to show.
1430 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1431
1432SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1433 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1434 as well as the number of messages.
1435
1436SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1437 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1438 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1439
1440SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1441 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1442 have a flag are now skipped.
1443
1444SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1445 Added the -emptyok flag.
1446
1447SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1448 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1449
0ea2a468
JJ
1450JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1451 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1452 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1453
1454JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1455 match 4.64-PH/13
1456
1457JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1458 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1459
1460JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1461
1462JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1463 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1464
8a10f5a4
PH
1465PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1466
30e18802
PH
1467PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1468 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1469 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1470 contravention of the specifications.
1471
55728a4f
PH
1472PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1473 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1474 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1475
d7837193
PH
1476PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1477 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1478 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1479
87054a31
PH
1480PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1481
ea2c01d2
MH
1482MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1483 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1484 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1485 some point in the past.
1486
e4fa6968
PH
1487PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1488 transport during callout processing was broken.
1489
56f5d9bd
PH
1490PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1491 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1492
922e1c28
PH
1493PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1494 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1495
21eb6e72
PH
1496PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1497 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1498
a0540757
PH
1499PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1500
944e9e9c 1501
478be7b0
SC
1502Exim version 4.63
1503-----------------
1504
1505SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1506 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1507
1508SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1509 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1510 there is data to show.
1511 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1512
1513SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1514 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1515
2b965a65
TF
1516TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1517 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1518
45b91596
PH
1519TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1520 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1521
c59f5781
TF
1522TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1523 submissions from trusted users.
1524
90fc3069
TF
1525TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1526 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1527
6083aca0
TF
1528TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1529 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1530 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1531 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1532 there is now a framework to start from.
1533
765b530f
PH
1534PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1535 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1536 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1537
4e167a8c
PH
1538PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1539
4608d683
PH
1540PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1541
b8dc3e4a
PH
1542PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1543
5418e93b
PH
1544PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1545 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1546 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1547
b4a9bda2
PH
1548PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1549 libradius.
1550
45b91596
PH
1551PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1552 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1553 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1554
5547e2c5
PH
1555PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1556 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1557 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1558 its arguments.
1559
dbcef0ea
PH
1560PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1561 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1562 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1563 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1564 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1565
25257489
PH
1566PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1567 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1568
c816d124
PH
1569PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1570
a9ccd69a
PH
1571PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1572 operations in malware.c.
1573
75fa1910
PH
1574PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1575 signatures.
1576
a7d7aa58
PH
1577PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1578 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1579 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1580 all.
1581
42119b09
PH
1582PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1583 statements to "add_header".
1584
41609df5
PH
1585PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1586 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1587
a5bd321b
PH
1588PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1589 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1590 latter.
1591
e85a7ad5 1592PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1593 so that it is now:
1594
e85a7ad5
PH
1595 ${if or { \
1596 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1597 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1598 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1599 }{no}{yes}}
1600
e85a7ad5
PH
1601 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1602 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1603
d8fe1c03
PH
1604PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1605 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1606
16282d2b
PH
1607PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1608 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1609 any possible encoding problems.
1610
35d40a98
PH
1611PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1612 but not after initializing Perl.
1613
034d99ab
PH
1614PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1615 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1616 apparently, which is not desirable.
1617
6ec97b1b
PH
1618PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1619 queries.
1620
e22ca4ac
JJ
1621JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1622 --not options
1623
1624JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1625
33d73e3b
PH
1626PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1627 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1628 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1629 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1630
9ecb03f3
PH
1631PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1632 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1633 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1634
084efe8d
PH
1635PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1636 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1637 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1638 0.12.
1639
366fc9f0
PH
1640PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1641 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1642 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1643 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1644 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1645
c59f5781 1646
c887c79e
TF
1647Exim version 4.62
1648-----------------
1649
1650TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1651 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1652
1cce3af8
PH
1653PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1654 patch).
1655
afb3eaaf
PH
1656PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1657 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1658 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1659 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1660 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1661 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1662 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1663 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1664 451 error is used.
1665
e173618b
PH
1666PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1667
dd16e114
PH
1668PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1669 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1670 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1671
f7fd3850
PH
1672PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1673 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1674 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1675 odd errors.
1676
d87df92c
PH
1677PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1678 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1679
7e9f683d
PH
1680PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1681 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1682 option (which defaults to 0600).
1683
bfad5236
PH
1684PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1685
01c490df
PH
1686PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1687 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1688 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1689 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1690 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1691 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1692 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1693
d6629cdc
PH
1694PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1695
1cce3af8 1696
214e2000
PH
1697Exim version 4.61
1698-----------------
1699
1700PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1701 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1702 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1703 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1704 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1705 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1706 addresses as local.
1707
f9daeae0
PH
1708PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1709 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1710
7e66e54d
PH
1711PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1712
c8ea1597
PH
1713PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1714 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1715 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1716 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1717 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1718 grumble.
1719
911f6fde
PH
1720PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1721 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1722
47ca6d6c
PH
1723PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1724 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1725 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1726 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1727 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1728
ed0e9820
PH
1729PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1730 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1731 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1732 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1733
eff37e47
PH
1734PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1735 be the same on different OS.
1736
1921d2ea
PH
1737PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1738 testing.
1739
b3f69ca8
JJ
1740JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1741 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1742
1743JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1744 in 4.61-PH/06
1745
424a1c63
PH
1746PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1747 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1748 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1749 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1750 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1751 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1752 bounce message.
1753
7a100415
PH
1754PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1755 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1756 when Exim was called.
1757
19b9dc85
PH
1758PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1759 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1760
309bd837
PH
1761PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1762 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1763 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1764 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1765
59e82a2a
PH
1766PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1767 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1768 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1769 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1770 changes:
1771
1772 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1773 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1774 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1775
1776 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1777 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1778 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1779
9edc04ce
PH
1780PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1781 feature).
1782
1349e1e5
PH
1783PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1784 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1785 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1786 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1787 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1788 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1789 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1790 values from the SRV records were lost.
1791
ea49d0e1
PH
1792PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1793 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1794 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1795
064a94c9
PH
1796PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1797 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1798 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1799
727071f8
PH
1800PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1801 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1802 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1803 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1804 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1805 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1806 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1807 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1808 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 1809 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 1810
f78eb7c6
PH
1811PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1812 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1813 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1814
21c28500
PH
1815PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1816 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1817
1818PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1819 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1820 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1821 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1822 is given.
1823
1688f43b
PH
1824PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1825 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1826 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1827
1828PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1829 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1830 PH/23 above applies.
1831
9675b384
PH
1832PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1833 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1834 (for which there is an explicit test).
1835
6a3f1455
PH
1836PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1837
dac79d3e
PH
1838PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1839 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1840 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1841 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1842 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 1843
5977a0b3
PH
1844PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1845 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1846 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1847 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1848
c91535f3
PH
1849PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1850 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1851 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1852
0d46a8c8
PH
1853PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1854
278c6e6c
PH
1855PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1856
2cbb4081
PH
1857PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1858 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1859 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1860
3eef829e
PH
1861PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1862 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1863 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1864 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1865 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1866
1ab95fa6
PH
1867PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1868 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1869 the message gets confusing).
1870
230205fc
PH
1871PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1872 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1873 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1874 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1875
75e0e026
PH
1876PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1877 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1878 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1879 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1880 same order.
1881
1882PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1883 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1884 the different processes.
1885
145396a6
PH
1886PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1887
3cd34f13
PH
1888PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1889
11121d3d
JJ
1890JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1891 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1892
1893JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1894 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1895
1896JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1897 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1898 messages matching specified criteria.
1899
8def5aaf
PH
1900PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1901
929ba01c
PH
1902PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1903 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1904
2632889e
PH
1905PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1906 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1907 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1908 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1909 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1910 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1911 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1912 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1913 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1914 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1915
944a9c55
PH
1916PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1917 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1918 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1919
4a23603b
PH
1920PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1921
4730f942
PH
1922PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1923 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1924 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1925 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1926 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1927 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1928 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1929 the variable.
1930
30dba1e6
PH
1931PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1932 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
1933
382afc6b
PH
1934PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
1935
a86229cf
PH
1936PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
1937
50c99ba6
PH
1938PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1939
d35e429d
PH
1940PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
1941 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
1942 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
1943 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
1944 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
1945 size of the count of files.
1946
f90d018c
PH
1947PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
1948
75def545
PH
1949PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
1950 used in LMTP mode:
1951
1952 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
1953 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
1954 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
1955 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
1956
1957 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
1958 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
1959 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
1960
1961PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
1962 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
1963 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
1964 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
1965 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
1966
c46782ef
PH
1967PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
1968 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
1969
71fafd95
PH
1970PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
1971 will now be deprecated.
1972
2c5db4fd
PH
1973PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1974
9cf6b11a
JJ
1975JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
1976 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
1977 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
1978
1979JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
1980 with very large, slow to parse queues
1981
1982JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
1983
1984JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
1985
898d150f
PH
1986PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
1987 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
1988 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
1989 SMTP output lines.
1990
46218253
PH
1991PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
1992 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
1993 Sieve code now uses this.
1994
e97957bc
PH
1995PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
1996 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
1997
81e509d7
PH
1998PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
1999 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2000
3d240ff7
PH
2001PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2002
b37c4101
PH
2003PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2004 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2005 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2006 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2007 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2008
79378e0f
PH
2009PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2010 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2011 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2012 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2013
e49c7bb4
PH
2014PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2015
d114ec46
PH
2016PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2017
f3d7df6c
PH
2018PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2019 is preferred over IPv4.
2020
715ab376
PH
2021PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2022 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2023 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2024 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2025 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2026 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2027 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2028
6b31b150
PH
2029PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2030 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2031 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2032
2033PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2034
d515a917
PH
2035PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2036 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2037 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2038 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2039 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2040 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2041 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2042 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2043 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2044 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2045 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2046
9b8fadde
PH
2047PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2048 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2049 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2050
214e2000 2051
5de37277
PH
2052Exim version 4.60
2053-----------------
2054
cc38ddbf
PH
2055PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2056
2057 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2058 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2059
2060 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2061 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2062 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2063
72fdd6ae
PH
2064PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2065
2066 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2067 not a single digit.
2068
2069 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2070 string.
2071
2072 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2073 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2074 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2075 silly things.
2076
2077 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2078 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2079
2080 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2081 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2082
cb741023
PH
2083PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2084 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2085 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2086
f174f16e
PH
2087PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2088 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2089
c25242d7
PH
2090PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2091 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2092
2093 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2094
2095 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2096 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2097 this:
2098
2099 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2100
82c19f95
PH
2101PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2102 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2103 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2104 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2105 identical. For example:
2106
2107 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2108
2109 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2110 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2111 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2112
d7ffbc12
PH
2113PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2114 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2115 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2116 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2117
9f526266
PH
2118PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2119 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2120 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2121 message.
2122
87fcc8b9
PH
2123PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2124
2125 o fixes some comments
2126 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2127 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2128 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2129 and documents the missing references header update
2130
2131 and most important:
2132
2133 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2134 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2135 result)
2136
456682f5
PH
2137PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2138 Electronic Mail") by including:
2139
2140 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2141
2142 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2143 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2144 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2145 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2146 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2147
2148 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2149
2150 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2151
2152 The auto-replied keyword:
2153
2154 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2155 message by an automatic process,
2156
2157 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2158
2159 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2160 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2161
2162 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2163 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2164 other messages.
2165
3e46c1aa
PH
2166PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2167 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2168
49826d12
PH
2169PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2170
eba0c039
PH
2171PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2172 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2173 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2174
a0d6ba8a
PH
2175PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2176 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2177 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2178
f0917727
PH
2179PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2180 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2181 and treats the condition as false.
2182
096fee00
PH
2183PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2184
024bd3c2
PH
2185PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2186 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2187 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2188 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2189 not changing the active code.
2190
2191 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2192 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2193
2194 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2195 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2196
df199fec
PH
2197PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2198 (Bugzilla #53).
2199
d27f1df3
PH
2200PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2201 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2202 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2203 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2204 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2205 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2206 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2207 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2208 the text comparison.
2209
96776534
PH
2210PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2211 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2212 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2213 The same fix has been applied.
2214
5de37277 2215
9a799bc0
PH
2216Exim version 4.54
2217-----------------
2218
2219PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2220 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2221 It now does.
2222
99a4b039
PH
2223PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2224 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2225
2226PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2227
4b233853
PH
2228PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2229 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2230 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2231 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2232 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2233
8857ccfd
PH
2234TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2235 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2236 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2237 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2238 or /domain=).
2239
433a2980
PH
2240PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2241 testing suite.
2242
3e46c1aa 2243
9a799bc0 2244
e3a311ba
TK
2245Exim version 4.53
2246-----------------
2247
2248TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2249 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2250
13b685f9
PH
2251PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2252
395ff96d
PH
2253PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2254
5b68f6e4
PH
2255PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2256 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2257 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2258
1ab52c69
PH
2259PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2260 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2261 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2262
b07e6aa3
PH
2263PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2264 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2265 operating systems.
2266
254e032f
PH
2267PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2268 ${stat: expansion item.
2269
3af76a81
PH
2270PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2271 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2272
2548ba04
PH
2273PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2274 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2275 file for comments.
2276
b6c6011d
PH
2277PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2278
cf39cf57
PH
2279PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2280 setting.
2281
f1513293
PH
2282PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2283 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2284
727549a4
PH
2285TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2286
af46795e
PH
2287PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2288 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2289 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2290 the end of the subprocess.
2291
d7b47fd0
PH
2292PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2293 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2294 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2295 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2296 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2297
ee744174
JJ
2298JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2299
b582ab87
PH
2300TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2301
41a13e0a
PH
2302PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2303 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2304
f625cc5a
PH
2305PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2306
2307PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2308
21f7af35
PH
2309PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2310 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2311 HP-UX compiler.
2312
31480e42
PH
2313PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2314
2d280592
PH
2315PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2316 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2317 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2318
7cd1141b
PH
2319PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2320 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2321
2322PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2323 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2324
750af86e
PH
2325PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2326 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2327
2328 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2329 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2330
2331 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2332 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2333 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2334 contributed by a Radius user.
2335
2336PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2337 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2338
4304270b
TK
2339TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2340 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2341
750af86e
PH
2342PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2343 available.
2344
64ffc24f
PH
2345PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2346 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2347 received.
2348
5dd9625b
PH
2349PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2350 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2351 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2352 header lines when this was not necessary.
2353
5591031b
PH
2354PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2355
ba18e66a
PH
2356PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2357 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2358 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2359 exists".
2360
9cec981f
PH
2361PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2362 -bV or -d is used.
2363
aa2b5c79
PH
2364PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2365 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2366 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2367 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2368
48a53b7f
PH
2369PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2370
1c59d63b
PH
2371PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2372
671012da
TK
2373TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2374
1509d3a8
PH
2375PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2376
2377PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2378 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2379 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2380 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2381 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2382 settings.
2383
2384PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2385
2fe1a124
PH
2386PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2387 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2388 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2389 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2390 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2391 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2392 which is clearly wrong.
2393
8800895a
PH
2394PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2395
ccfdb010
PH
2396PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2397 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2398 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2399 subsequently added.
2400
1130bfb0
PH
2401PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2402 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2403
ebcb507f
PH
2404PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2405
c35e155c
PH
2406PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2407 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2408
95d1f782
PH
2409PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2410 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2411
fd6de02e
PH
2412PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2413 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2414
58de37c5
PH
2415PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2416 recipients, not senders.
2417
261cf466
TF
2418TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2419 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2420
3ee512ff
PH
2421PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2422
e08c430f
PH
2423PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2424
bef5a11f
PH
2425PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2426 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2427 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2428 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2429
7546de58
TF
2430TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2431
e5d5a95f
TF
2432TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2433 clock is set back in time.
2434
2e88a017
TF
2435TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2436 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2437
a5f65aa4
TF
2438TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2439 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2440
e7726cbf
PH
2441PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2442 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2443 (see PH/47 above).
2444
a7fdad5b
TF
2445TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2446 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2447 header rewrites.
2448
6af56900
PH
2449PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2450 type ("H").
2451
0925ede6
PH
2452PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2453
66afa403
TF
2454TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2455 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2456 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2457
0154e85a
TF
2458TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2459 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2460 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2461 helo verification defer as a failure.
2462
16f12c76
PH
2463PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2464 actual error message.
2465
bbe902f0 2466
e5a9dba6
PH
2467Exim version 4.52
2468-----------------
2469
2470TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2471
22c3b60b
PH
2472PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2473 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2474 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2475 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2476
06a9b4b5
PH
2477TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2478
c1ac6996
PH
2479PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2480 can still be requested.
2481
9c7a242c
PH
2482PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2483 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2484 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2485 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2486
87ba3f5f
PH
2487TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2488 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2489 circumstances, but probably never did.
2490
2491PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2492 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2493 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2494 in the header line.
2495
29aba418
TF
2496TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2497
fe0dab11
TF
2498TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2499 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2500
11d337a4
TK
2501TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2502
2503TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2504
415c8f3b
PH
2505PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2506 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2507 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2508 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2509 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2510 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2511
958541e9
PH
2512PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2513 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2514 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2515 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2516 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2517 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2518
c206415f
TK
2519TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2520 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2521
2a4be8f9
PH
2522PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2523 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2524
1cba11c5
SC
2525SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2526 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2527
2528SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2529
2530SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2531
2532SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2533
2534SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2535
2536SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2537
2538SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2539
1005d00e
TK
2540TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2541
2542TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2543 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2544 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2545
2546TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2547 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2548 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2549 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2550
9b4768fa
PH
2551PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2552 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2553 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2554
2555PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2556 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2557 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2558 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2559
0d7eb84a
PH
2560PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2561 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2562 to be made).
2563
2564PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2565 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2566 should work with maildirs and everything.
2567
40727bee
TK
2568TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2569 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2570
554d2369
TF
2571TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2572 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2573
1f922db1
PH
2574PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2575 function for BDB 4.3.
2576
ef213c3b
PH
2577PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2578
8ac170f3
PH
2579PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2580 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2581 involved.
2582
b1c749bb
PH
2583PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2584 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2585 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2586 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2587 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2588 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2589
4aac9b49
PH
2590PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2591 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2592 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2593 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2594 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2595 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2596 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2597 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2598
294520c8
TK
2599TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2600 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2601 details.
2602
5bd022fe
PH
2603PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2604 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2605
90e9ce59
PH
2606PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2607 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2608 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2609 test. It is now used for both.
2610
5ea81592
PH
2611PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2612 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2613 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2614 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2615 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2616 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2617
c6c2dc1d
PH
2618PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2619 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2620 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2621 string_vformat().
2622
fffffe4c
PH
2623PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2624 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2625 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2626
9a26b6b2
PH
2627PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2628 experimental DomainKeys support:
2629
2630 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2631 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2632 the control was given.
2633
2634 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2635
4aee0225
PH
2636PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2637
32d668a5
PH
2638PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2639
8187c3f3
PH
2640PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2641 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2642 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2643 db.h files).
2644
ff790e47 2645PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2646 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2647 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2648 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2649 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2650 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2651 course.
ff790e47 2652
5417f6d1
PH
2653PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2654 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2655 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2656 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2657 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2658 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2659
59cf8544
PH
2660PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2661 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2662 do -d+all out of habit.
2663
e7ad8a65
PH
2664PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2665 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2666 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2667
ade42478
PH
2668PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2669 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2670 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2671 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2672 record types that Exim uses.
2673
182ad5cf
PH
2674PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2675 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2676 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2677 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2678 non-existent file that was broken.
2679
b0d9fc80
TK
2680TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2681 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2682
2683TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2684 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2685 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2686
2687TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2688
47c7a64a
PH
2689PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2690 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2691 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2692 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2693 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2694 same time.
2695
a388bce4
SC
2696SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2697 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2698 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2699 at a slight CPU cost.
2700
2701SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2702 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2703
2704SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2705 by Marc Sherman.
2706
0793e4ed
SC
2707SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2708
c58b88df
PH
2709PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2710 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2711
e7ad8a65 2712
7982096b
PH
2713Exim version 4.51
2714-----------------
2715
1a46a8c5
PH
2716TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2717 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2718
2f079f46 2719TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
2720
2721TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2722
2723PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2724 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2725
2726PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2727 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2728 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2729 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2730 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2731 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2732 file.
2733
2734PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2735 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2736 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2737 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2738 these two options.
2739
2740PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2741 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2742 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2743 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2744 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2745 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2746 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 2747 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
2748
2749PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2750 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2751
2752PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2753 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2754 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2755 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2756 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2757 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2758
2759PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2760 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2761 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2762 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2763
2764PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2765 Finch).
2766
2767PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2768 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 2769
49c2d5ea
PH
2770PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2771 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
2772 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2773 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2774 message.
49c2d5ea 2775
bf759a8b
PH
2776PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2777
83364d30
PH
2778PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2779 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2780
7999bbd7
PH
2781PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2782 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2783 to what was transported.)
2784
7dbf77c9
PH
2785TF/01 Added $received_time.
2786
74e0617f
PH
2787PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2788 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2789 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2790 spamd_address settings.
2791
2f079f46
PH
2792PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2793 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2794 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2795 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2796 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2797
8c841523
PH
2798PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2799
7766a4f0
PH
2800PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2801 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2802 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2803 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2804 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2805
8b417f2c
PH
2806PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2807 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2808
901f42cb
PH
2809PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2810 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2811 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2812 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2813 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2814 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2815 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2816 for failure.
2817
f9b9210e
PH
2818PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2819 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2820 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2821 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2822 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2823 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2824 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2825 "input=".
2826
54cdb463
PH
2827PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2828
cf00dad6
PH
2829PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2830 driver and ACL definitions.
2831
acb1b346
PH
2832PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2833 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2834
c5ddb310
PH
2835PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2836 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2837 understands it better than I do:
2838
2839 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2840 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2841
2842 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2843 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2844 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2845 => three warnings about OTP not working
2846 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2847
2848 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2849 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2850 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2851 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2852 for each call.)
2853 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2854 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2855
2856 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2857 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2858 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2859
31619da6
PH
2860PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2861 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2862 specified.
2863
bebaf0fc
PH
2864PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2865 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2866 "Linux".
2867
475fe28a
PH
2868PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2869 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2870 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2871
2872 warn !verify = sender
2873 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2874
2875 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2876 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2877
7e8bec7a
PH
2878PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2879
2880 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2881 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2882
2883 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2884 nomenclature these days.)
2885
e4a89c47
PH
2886PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2887 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2888
5ca2a9a1
PH
2889PH/30 In these circumstances:
2890 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2891 . First host does not offer TLS;
2892 . First host accepts first address;
2893 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2894 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2895 . Second host accepts second address.
2896 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2897 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2898 address.
7e8bec7a 2899
c688b954
PH
2900PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2901 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2902 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2903 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2904 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2905
fed77020
PH
2906PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2907 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2908
7fe1560f
PH
2909PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2910 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 2911
ebb6e6d5
PH
2912PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2913 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2914 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2915
9c4e8f60
PH
2916PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2917 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2918 overlooked.
2919
2920PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2921
d7174846
PH
2922PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2923 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2924 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2925 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2926 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2927 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2928 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2929
2930 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2931 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2932 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
2933 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
2934 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
2935
2936 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
2937 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
2938 routed further.
2939
cfe75fc3
PH
2940PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
2941 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
2942 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
2943 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
2944 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
2945 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
2946
be22d70e
PH
2947PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
2948
0612b098
PH
2949PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
2950 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
2951 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
2952 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
2953 printable escape sequences.
2954
2e0c1448
PH
2955PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
2956 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
2957 body only.
2958
447d236c
PH
2959PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
2960 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
2961 are as follows:
2962
2963 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
2964 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
2965 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
2966 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
2967 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
2968
2969 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
2970 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
2971 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
2972
d20976dc
PH
2973PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
2974
f656d135
PH
2975PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
2976 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
2977 play with."
2978
2e2a30b4
PH
2979PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
2980 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
2981 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
2982 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
2983 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
2984 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
2985 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
2986 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
2987 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
2988 the log output.
2989
9176e9f0
PH
2990PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
2991 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
2992 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
2993 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
2994 "make".
2995
7982096b 2996
bbe902f0
PH
2997A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
2998----------------------------------------
2999
3000Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3001changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3002needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3003in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3004that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3005release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3006from 4.43.
3007
3008I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
30094.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3010those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3011historical information.
3012
3013
f7b63901 3014Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3015-----------------
3016
5fe762f6
PH
3017 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3018
139059f6 3019 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3020 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3021
7086e875
PH
3022 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3023 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3024 place.
3025
35af9f61
PH
3026 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3027 filter fails to execute.
3028
b668c215
PH
3029 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3030 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3031 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3032 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3033 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3034
a494b1e1
PH
3035 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3036
3037 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3038 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3039 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3040 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3041
c5fcb476
PH
3042 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3043 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3044 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3045 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3046 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3047
69358f02
PH
3048 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3049
5be20824
PH
305010. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3051
eb2c0248
PH
305211. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3053 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3054 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3055 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3056
2a3eea10
PH
305712. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3058 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3059 sender verification.
3060
306113. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3062 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3063
23c7ff99
PH
306414. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3065
4deaf07d
PH
306615. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3067 connection timeout.
3068
926e1192
PH
306916. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3070 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3071
650edc6f
PH
307217. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3073 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3074
2c7db3f5
PH
307518. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3076 information about exactly what failed.
3077
3d235903
PH
307819. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3079
7c7ad977
PH
308020. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3081 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3082 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3083
981756db
PH
308421. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3085 It is now set to "smtps".
3086
d4eb88df
PH
308722. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3088 ignore_target_hosts.
3089
309023. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3091 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3092 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3093 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3094 "[x.x.x.x]".
3095
7d468ab8
PH
309624. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3097 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3098 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3099
310025. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3101 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3102 wake it up if nothing else does.
3103
62c0818f
PH
310426. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3105 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3106 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3107 end up negative.
3108
26034054
PH
310927. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3110 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3111
af66f652
PH
311228. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3113
90af77f4
PH
311429. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3115 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3116 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3117 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3118 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3119 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3120 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3121 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3122
d8ef3577
PH
312330. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3124 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3125 than one IP address.
3126
5cb8cbc6
PH
312731. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3128 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3129 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3130 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3131
14702f5b
PH
313232. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3133 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3134 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3135 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3136 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3137 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3138
063b1e99
PH
313933. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3140 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3141 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3142 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3143
652e1b65
PH
314434. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3145 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3146 respected.
3147
6f0c9a4f
PH
314835. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3149 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3150 $sender_host_address.
3151
33397d19
PH
315236. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3153 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3154 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3155 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3156 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3157 very small.
3158
7bb56e1f
PH
315937. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3160
3161 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3162 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3163
ea3bc19b
PH
3164 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3165 just the host names, not the priorities.
3166
3167 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3168 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3169 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3170
ea3bc19b 3171 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3172 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3173
0bcb2a0e
PH
317438. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3175 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3176 domain.
3177
2ac0e484
PH
317839. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3179
4e1fde53
PH
318040. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3181 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3182
de365ded
PH
318341. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3184 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3185 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3186
f05da2e8
PH
318742. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3188
d6453af2
PH
318943. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3190
f7b63901
PH
319144. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3192
319345. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3194 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3195 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3196 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3197 because the tests only now provoked it.
3198
a444213a
PH
319946. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3200 (this can affect the format of dates).
3201
0ec020ea
PH
320247. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3203 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3204 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3205 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3206
b1206957
PH
320748. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3208
320949. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3210 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3211 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3212 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3213
26dd5a95
PH
321450. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3215 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3216 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3217
343b2385
PH
321851. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3219 autoreply.
3220
1c5466b9
PH
322152. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3222 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3223 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3224 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3225 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3226 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3227 is going on).
3228
55ee9ee3
PH
322953. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3230 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3231 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3232 the line.
3233
d38f8232
PH
323454. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3235 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3236 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3237
3238 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3239 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3240 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3241 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3242 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3243 so I produce this patch..."
3244
3295e65b
PH
3245 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3246 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3247 is not defined.
3248
7102e136
PH
324955. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3250 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3251 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3252 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3253 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3254
3ca0ba97
PH
325556. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3256
c2bcbe20
PH
325757. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3258 long debug lines gets shown.
3259
18ce445d
PH
326058. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3261 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3262
1f5b4c3d
PH
326359. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3264
3265 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3266 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3267 of $primary_hostname.
3268
b975ba52
PH
326960. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3270 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3271 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3272 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3273 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3274 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3275 by change 4.50/55 above.
3276
3277 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3278 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3279 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3280 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3281 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3282 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3283 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3284
328561. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3286 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3287 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3288 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3289
17ffcae7
PH
329062. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3291 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3292
d95f9fdb
PH
329363. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3294 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3295 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3296 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3297 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3298
86b8287f
PH
329964. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3300 This has been fixed.
3301
60dc5e56
PH
330265. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3303 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3304 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3305 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3306 the caching.)
3307
533244af
PH
330866. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3309
a5a28604
PH
331067. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3311 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3312 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3313 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3314
7e634d24
PH
331568. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3316 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3317
3e11c26b
PH
331869. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3319 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3320 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3321
6729cf78
PH
332270. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3323 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3324 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3325 message there.
3326
00f00ca5
PH
332771. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3328 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3329 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3330
c9bdd01c
PH
333172. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3332 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3333 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3334 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3335
d43194df
PH
333673. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3337 during host lookups.
3338
fe5b5d0b
PH
333974. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3340 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3341
3342 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3343
76a2d7ba
PH
334475. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3345 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3346 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3347 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3348 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3349 background.
3350
335176. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3352 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3353
04f7d5b9
PH
335477. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3355 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3356 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3357
bc60667e
PH
335878. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3359
bb6e88ff
PH
336079. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3361 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3362 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3363 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3364 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3365 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3366 process earlier.
3367
1e70f85b
PH
336880. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3369 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3370 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3371 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3372 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3373
337481. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3375 tables).
3376
4e01f9d6
PH
337782. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3378
1ee1cef2
PH
337983. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3380 "vacation" handling.
3381
6e2b4ccc
PH
338284. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3383 OS variants using glibc.
3384
8e669ac1
PH
338585. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3386
495ae4b0 3387
bbe902f0
PH
3388----------------------------------------------------
3389See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3390----------------------------------------------------
3391
3392
3393Exim version 4.44
3394-----------------
3395
3396 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3397 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3398 transport
3399
3400 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3401 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3402 place.
3403
3404 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3405 filter fails to execute.
3406
3407 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3408 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3409 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3410 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3411 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3412
3413 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3414 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3415 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3416 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3417
3418 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3419 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3420 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3421 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3422 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3423
3424 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3425
3426 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3427 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3428 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3429 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3430
3431 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3432 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3433 sender verification.
3434
343510. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3436 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3437
343811. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3439 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3440
344112. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3442 ignore_target_hosts.
3443
344413. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3445 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3446 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3447 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3448 "[x.x.x.x]".
3449
345014. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3451 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3452 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3453
345415. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3455 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3456 wake it up if nothing else does.
3457
345816. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3459 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3460 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3461 end up negative.
3462
346317. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3464 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3465
ea3a6f44 346618. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3467
346819. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3469 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3470 empty pattern.
3471
347220. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3473 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3474 one IP address.
3475
ea3a6f44
NM
347621. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3477 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3478 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3479 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3480 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3481 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3482
ea3a6f44
NM
348322. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3484 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3485 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3486
348723. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3488 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3489 $sender_host_address.
3490
349124. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3492
ea3a6f44
NM
349325. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3494 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3495 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3496
349726. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3498 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3499
ea3a6f44
NM
350027. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3501 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3502
ea3a6f44
NM
350328. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3504 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3505 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3506 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3507
350829. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3509 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3510 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3511
ea3a6f44
NM
351230. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3513 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3514 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3515 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3516
ea3a6f44
NM
351731. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3518 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3519 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3520
ea3a6f44
NM
352131. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3522 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3523
ea3a6f44
NM
352432. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3525 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3526 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3527 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3528 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3529 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3530 is going on).
bbe902f0 3531
ea3a6f44
NM
353233. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3533 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3534 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3535 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3536 CAN-2005-0021
3537
ea3a6f44
NM
353834. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3539 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3540 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3541 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3542 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3543 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3544 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3545
3546 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3547 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3548 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3549 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3550 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3551 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3552 CAN-2005-0021
3553
ea3a6f44
NM
355435. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3555 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3556 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3557 CAN-2005-0022
3558
ea3a6f44
NM
355936. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3560 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3561 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3562 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3563 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3564
ea3a6f44
NM
356537. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3566 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3567 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3568 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3569 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3570
ea3a6f44
NM
357138. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3572 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3573 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3574 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3575 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3576
3577
495ae4b0
PH
3578Exim version 4.43
3579-----------------
3580
3581 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3582 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3583 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3584 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3585 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3586 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3587 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3588
3589 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3590 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3591 the delivery.
3592
3593 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3594
3595 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3596
3597 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3598 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3599 to local_scan().
3600
3601 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3602 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3603 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3604 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3605 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3606
3607 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3608 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3609
3610 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3611
3612 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3613
361410. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3615 header_sender only.
3616
361711. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3618 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3619
362012. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3621 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3622 affecting debugging statements).
3623
362413. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3625
362614. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3627 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3628 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3629 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3630 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3631 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3632 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3633 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3634 after the received time, and all would be well.
3635
363615. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3637 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3638 condition in an expansion string.
3639
364016. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3641
364217. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3643 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3644 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3645 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3646 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3647 job under whatever limits there are.
3648
364918. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3650
365119. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3652 space).
3653
365420. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3655 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3656 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3657 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3658 return path is set.
3659
366021. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3661 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3662 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3663 binary data in such strings.
3664
366522. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3666
366723. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3668 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3669 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3670 failure, which is pointless.
3671
367224. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3673
367425. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3675
367626. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3677 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3678 Sender: header lines.
3679
368027. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3681 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3682 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3683
368428. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3685 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3686 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3687 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3688 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3689 happens.
3690
369129. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3692 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3693 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3694 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3695 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3696
369730. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3698 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3699 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3700 1024.
3701
370231. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3703 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3704
370532. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3706 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3707
370833. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3709
371032. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3711
371233. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3713
371434. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3715 syntax error.
3716
371735. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3718
371936. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3720
372137. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3722 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3723 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3724 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3725
372638. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3727 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3728
3729
3730Exim version 4.42
3731-----------------
3732
3733 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3734 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3735 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3736 it was not quoted.
3737 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3738 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3739 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3740 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3741 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3742 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3743
3744 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3745 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3746 verification failure".
3747
3748 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3749 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3750 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3751 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3752
3753 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3754 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3755 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3756 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3757 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3758 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3759 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3760 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3761 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3762 treated as a timeout.
3763
3764 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3765 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3766 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3767 not set for Exim filters).
3768
3769 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3770 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3771 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3772
3773 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3774
3775 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3776 try to make them clearer.
3777
3778 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3779 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3780
3781 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3782
3783 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3784
378510. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3786 only the Cygwin environment.
3787
378811. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3789 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3790 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3791 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3792 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3793
379412. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3795 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3796 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3797 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3798 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3799 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3800 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3801
380213. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3803 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3804
380514. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3806
3807 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3808 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3809 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3810
3811 To: susanne@some.where
3812
3813 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3814 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3815 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3816 of addresses in From: header lines).
3817
3818 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3819 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3820 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3821
3822 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3823 treated as non-personal.
3824
3825 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3826 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3827
382815. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3829
383016. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3831
383217. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3833 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3834 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3835
383618. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3837 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3838
383919. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3840 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3841 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3842 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3843 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3844 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3845
384620. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3847 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3848 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3849 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3850 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3851 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3852 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3853 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3854
3855 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3856
385721. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3858 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3859
386022. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3861 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3862 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3863
386423. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3865 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3866
386724. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
3868 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
3869 rather than long int.
3870
387125. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3872
387326. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
3874
3875
3876Exim version 4.41
3877-----------------
3878
3879 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
3880 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
3881 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
3882 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
3883 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
3884 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
3885
3886
3887Exim version 4.40
3888-----------------
3889
3890 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
3891 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
3892
3893 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
3894 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
3895 socklen_t is defined.
3896
3897 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
3898 always exist.
3899
3900 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
3901 configured.
3902
3903 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
3904 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
3905 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
3906 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
3907 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
3908
3909 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
3910 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
3911 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
3912 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
3913
3914 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
3915 of flapping under certain conditions.
3916
3917 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
3918 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
3919 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
3920
3921 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3922
392310. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
3924
392511. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
3926 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
3927 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
3928 the duration of the SMTP connection.
3929
393012. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
3931 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
3932 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
3933 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
3934 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
3935 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
3936 preserved with the message after it was received.
3937
393813. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
3939 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
3940 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
3941 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
3942 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
3943 test suite worked just fine.
3944
394514. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
3946 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
3947 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
3948
394915. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
3950 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
3951 string.
3952
395316. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
3954 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
3955 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
3956 does not fully solve it.
3957
395817. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
3959 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
3960 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
3961 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
3962 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
3963
396418. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
3965 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
3966 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
3967
396819. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
3969 string, for example:
3970
3971 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
3972
3973 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
3974 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
3975 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
3976 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
3977 the routers could not see them.
3978
397920. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
3980 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
3981
398221. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
3983 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
3984 output).
3985
398622. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
3987 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
3988 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
3989 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
3990 that needed quoting.
3991
399223. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
3993 was not being matched caselessly.
3994
399524. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
3996 backslashes.
3997
399825. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
3999 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4000 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4001 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4002 when use_sender is false.
4003
400426. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4005
400627. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4007
400828. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4009
401029. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4011 the configuration file.
4012
401330. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4014 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4015
401631. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4017
401832. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4019 bytes in the message body.
4020
402133. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4022 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4023 delivery.
4024
402534. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4026
402735. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4028
402936. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4030 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4031 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4032 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4033 another IP address.
4034
4035
4036Exim version 4.34
4037-----------------
4038
4039 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4040 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4041
4042 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4043 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4044 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4045 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4046 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4047
4048 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4049 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4050
4051 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4052 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4053 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4054
4055 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4056 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4057 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4058
4059 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4060 for routers.
4061
4062 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4063 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4064 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4065 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4066 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4067 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4068 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4069
4070
4071Exim version 4.33
4072-----------------
4073
4074 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4075 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4076 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4077 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4078 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4079 default (and expected) setting.
4080
4081 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4082 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4083 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4084 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4085
4086 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4087 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4088
4089 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4090 in domain lists.
4091
4092 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4093 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4094 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4095 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4096 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4097 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4098
4099 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4100 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4101 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4102
4103 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4104 part (NOT match_host).
4105
4106 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4107
4108 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4109 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4110 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4111 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4112 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4113 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4114 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4115 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4116 the same named file.
4117
411810. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4119 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4120 when Exim is built.
4121
412211. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4123 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4124 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4125 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4126 a host name.
4127
412812. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4129 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4130 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4131
413213. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4133
413414. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4135
413615. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4137
413816. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4139 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4140
414117. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4142 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4143 before starting the TLS session.
4144
414518. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4146
414719. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4148 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4149
415020. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4151 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4152 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4153 colon in the middle).
4154
4155
4156Exim version 4.32
4157-----------------
4158
4159 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4160 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4161 multiple configurations are in use.
4162
4163 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4164 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4165 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4166 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4167 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4168 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4169
4170 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4171 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4172
4173 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4174 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4175 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4176
4177 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4178 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4179 occurs.
4180
4181 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4182 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4183
4184 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4185
4186 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4187 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4188
4189 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4190
4191 -prval:sval
4192
4193 is equivalent to
4194
4195 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4196
4197 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4198 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4199 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4200 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4201 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4202
420310. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4204 Exim's behaviour:
4205
4206 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4207 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4208 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4209 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4210 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4211 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4212
4213 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4214 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4215 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4216 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4217 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4218 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4219 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4220 string.
4221
4222 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4223 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4224 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4225 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4226 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4227
422811. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4229
423012. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4231 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4232 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4233
423413. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4235
423614. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4237 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4238 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4239 information.
4240
424115. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4242 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4243
424416. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4245 Three changes have been made:
4246
4247 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4248 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4249 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4250 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4251 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4252
4253 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4254 been restored.
4255
4256 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4257 the modified behaviour.
4258
4259
4260Exim version 4.31
4261-----------------
4262
4263 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4264 Larry Rosenman.
4265
4266 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4267 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4268
4269 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4270 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4271 try to track down a specific problem.
4272
4273 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4274 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4275 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4276
4277 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4278 warning.
4279
4280 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4281 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4282 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4283 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4284 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4285 some earlier ones do not.
4286
4287 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4288
4289 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4290 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4291 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4292 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4293 address literals are enabled, of course).
4294
4295 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4296
429710. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4298 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4299 by a command such as
4300
4301 exim -f "" ...
4302
4303 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4304
430511. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4306
430712. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4308 remained set. It is now erased.
4309
431013. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4311 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4312
431314. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4314 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4315 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4316 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4317 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4318 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4319 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4320 appropriate error code.
4321
432215. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4323 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4324 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4325 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4326 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4327 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4328
432916. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4330 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4331 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4332
433317. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4334 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4335 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4336 terminate the header.
4337
433818. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4339 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4340 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4341
434219. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4343 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4344 (4.30/29). In particular:
4345
4346 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4347 imposed.
4348
4349 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4350 to write a maildirsize file.
4351
4352 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4353 the transport, the new value overrides.
4354
4355 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4356 count.
4357
435820. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4359 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4360 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4361 space or a tab.
4362
436321. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4364 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4365 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4366 the fallback hosts.
4367
436822. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4369 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4370 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4371
437223. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4373 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4374 using a union.
4375
437624. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4377 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4378 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4379
438025. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4381
438226. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4383
438427. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4385
438628. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4387 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4388 become corrupted.
4389
439029. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4391 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4392 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4393 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4394 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4395 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4396 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4397 too great.
4398
439930. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4400 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4401 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4402 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4403 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4404 incorrectly.
4405
440631. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4407 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4408 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4409 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4410 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4411 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4412 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4413 cached value only when the same options are set.
4414
441532. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4416
441733. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4418 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4419 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4420 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4421 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4422
442334: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4424 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4425 it is clearly obsolete.
4426
442735. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4428 transport.
4429
443036. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4431 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4432 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4433 times.
4434
443537. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4436 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4437 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4438 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4439 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4440
444138. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4442 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4443 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4444 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4445
444639. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4447
4448 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4449
4450 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4451 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4452 2^31.
4453
445440. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4455 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4456 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4457 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4458 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4459 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4460 $localpart_data.
4461
446241. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4463 with the -f command-line option.
4464
446542. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4466 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4467 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4468 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4469 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4470 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4471
447243. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4473 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4474 line.
4475
447644. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4477 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4478 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4479 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4480 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4481 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4482 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4483 buffer is too small.
4484
448545. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4486 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4487
448846. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4489 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4490 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4491 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4492 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4493 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4494 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4495 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4496 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4497
449847. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4499 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4500 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4501
450248. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4503 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4504 ACL").
4505
450649. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4507 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4508 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4509 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4510 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4511
451250. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4513 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4514 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4515 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4516 is set.
4517
451851. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4519
452052. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4521
452253. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4523 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4524
452554. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4526 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4527 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4528
452955. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4530 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4531 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4532 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4533 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4534
453556. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4536 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4537 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4538 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4539 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4540 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4541 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4542
454357. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4544 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4545 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4546 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4547 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4548 the test of how many are available.
4549
455058. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4551 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4552 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4553 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4554 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4555 new message is started.
4556
455759. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4558 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4559
456060. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4561 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4562
456361. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4564 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4565 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4566 is no long logged.
4567
456862. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4569 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4570 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4571 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4572 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4573 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4574 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4575
457663. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4577 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4578 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4579 interpreted as octal.
4580
458164. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4582 setting.
4583
458465. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4585 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4586 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4587 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4588 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4589 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4590
459166. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4592 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4593 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4594 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4595
4596 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4597 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4598 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4599 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4600
4601 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4602 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4603 is a bug fix.
4604
4605 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4606 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4607
460867. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4609
461068. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4611 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4612 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4613 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4614
461569. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4616 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4617 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4618 supplied", which is not helpful.
4619
462070. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4621 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4622 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4623
462471. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4625 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4626 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4627 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4628 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4629 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4630 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4631 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4632
463372. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4634 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4635 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4636 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4637 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4638
463973. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4640 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4641 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4642 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4643 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4644 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4645
464674. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4647 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4648 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4649
465075. Added write_rejectlog option.
4651
465276. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4653 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4654 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4655 variables.
4656
465777. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4658
465978. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4660 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4661 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4662 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4663 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4664 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4665 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4666 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4667
466879. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4669 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4670 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4671 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4672 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4673
467480. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4675 Haardt.
4676
467781. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4678 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4679 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4680 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4681 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4682 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4683 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4684 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4685 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4686
4687
4688Exim version 4.30
4689-----------------
4690
4691 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4692 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4693 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4694
4695 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4696 fixed.
4697
4698 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4699 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4700 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4701
4702 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4703 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4704 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4705 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4706 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4707 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4708
4709 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4710 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4711 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4712 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4713 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4714 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4715 the Exim test suite.
4716
4717 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4718 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4719 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4720 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4721
4722 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4723 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4724 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4725 specify it in this variable.
4726
4727 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4728 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4729 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4730 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4731
4732 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4733 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4734 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4735 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4736
4737 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4738 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4739 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4740 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4741 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4742
4743 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4744
474510. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4746 they are logged.
4747
474811. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4749 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4750 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4751 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4752 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4753
475412. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4755 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4756
475713. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4758 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4759 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4760 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4761 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4762
476314. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4764 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4765
476615. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4767 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4768 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4769
477016. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4771 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4772
477317. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4774 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4775
477618. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4777 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4778 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4779
478019. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4781 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4782
478320. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4784 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4785 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4786 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4787
478821. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4789
479022. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4791 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4792 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
4793 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
4794
479523. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
4796
479724. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
4798 line; previously there was no indication of these.
4799
480025. Added .include_if_exists.
4801
480226. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
4803 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
4804 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
4805 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
4806 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
4807 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
4808
480927. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
4810
481128. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
4812 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
4813 this.
4814
481529. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
4816
481730. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
4818 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
4819
4820 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
4821 550 Sender verify failed
4822
4823 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
4824 the final line of the response.
4825
482631. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
4827 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
4828 all other user lookups.
4829
483032. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
4831 delivery time.
4832
483333. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
4834 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
4835 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
4836 result into an int without checking.
4837
483834. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
4839 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4840 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
4841
484235. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
4843 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
4844 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
4845 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
4846
484736. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
4848 correctly.
4849
485037. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
4851 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
4852
485338. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
4854 to the empty sender.
4855
485639. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
4857 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
4858 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
4859 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
4860 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
4861 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
4862 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
4863 panic log.
4864
486540. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
4866 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
4867 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
4868 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
4869 used.
4870
487141. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
4872 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
4873
487442. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
4875 timestamps.
4876
487743. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
4878 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
4879
488044. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
4881
488245. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
4883 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
4884 logs.
4885
488646. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
4887 as soon as it is encountered.
4888
488947. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
4890
489148. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
4892 rewritten to "<>".
4893
489449. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
4895 recognizes a tab character.
4896
489750. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
4898 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
4899 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
4900 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
4901
490251. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
4903
490452. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
4905 crash.
4906
490753. Installed eximstats 1.29.
4908
490954. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
4910
491155. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
4912 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
4913 2822.
4914
491556. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
4916 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
4917 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
4918 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
4919 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
4920
492157. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
4922 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
4923
492458. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
4925 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
4926 list (.included file names were always shown).
4927
492859. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
4929 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
4930 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
4931 root at that time.
4932
493360. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
4934 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
4935
493661. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
4937
493862. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
4939
494063. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
4941
494264. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
4943 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
4944 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
4945 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
4946 failures to open the logs.
4947
494865. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
4949 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
4950 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
4951 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
4952 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
4953 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
4954 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
4955
4956
4957Exim version 4.24
4958-----------------
4959
4960 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
4961 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
4962 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
4963 change 4.23/1.
4964
4965 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
4966 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
4967 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
4968
4969 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
4970 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
4971 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
4972
4973 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
4974 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
4975 causing some misleading effects.
4976
4977 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
4978 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
4979 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
4980
4981 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
4982 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
4983 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
4984 queue-runner function directly.
4985
4986
4987Exim version 4.23
4988-----------------
4989
4990 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
4991 HEADERS_CHARSET.
4992
4993 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
4994 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
4995 was always written to the default place.
4996
4997 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
4998 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
4999 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5000
5001 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5002
5003 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5004
5005 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5006 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5007 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5008
5009 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5010 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5011 must start.
5012
5013 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5014 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5015 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5016
5017 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5018 command line option is disabled.
5019
5020 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5021 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5022
5023 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5024
5025 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5026
5027 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5028 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5029
503010. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5031
503211. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5033 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5034 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5035 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5036 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5037 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5038
503912. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5040 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5041 timeout.
5042
504313. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5044 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5045
504614. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5047 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5048
504915. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5050 received was valid base64.
5051
505216. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5053 name of the variable that was being set.
5054
505517. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5056
505718. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5058 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5059 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5060 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5061 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5062 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5063
506419. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5065
506620. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5067 nor realm was specified.
5068
506921. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5070 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5071 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5072 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5073
507422. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5075 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5076 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5077
507823. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5079 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5080 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5081
508224. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5083 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5084 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5085 some systems use these upper case variants.
5086
508725. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5088 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5089 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5090 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5091
509226. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5093
509427. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5095 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5096
509728. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5098 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5099 expansion variable.
5100
510129. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5102
510330. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5104 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5105 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5106 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5107
510831. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5109 using it.
5110
511132. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5112 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5113 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5114
511533. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5116 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5117
511834. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5119 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5120 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5121 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5122
512335. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5124 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5125 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5126
512736. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5128
512937. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5130 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5131 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5132 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5133 aborted.
5134
513538. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5136 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5137 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5138
513939. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5140
514140. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5142 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5143
514441. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5145 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5146
514742. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5148 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5149 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5150 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5151 when emails are that large.
5152
5153
5154
5155Exim version 4.22
5156-----------------
5157
5158 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5159 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5160
5161 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5162 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5163 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5164
5165 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5166 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5167 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5168
5169 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5170 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5171 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5172 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5173 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5174
5175 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5176 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5177 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5178 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5179 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5180 ever.
5181
5182 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5183 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5184 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5185 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5186 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5187 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5188 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5189 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5190 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5191 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5192 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5193 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5194 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5195 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5196
5197 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5198 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5199 parameterised it.
5200
5201 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5202 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5203 error should be diagnosed.
5204
5205 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5206 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5207 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5208 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5209 appeared instead of "NULL".
5210
521110. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5212 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5213 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5214 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5215 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5216 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5217 proceeds).
5218
5219 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5220 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5221 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5222
5223
5224Exim version 4.21
5225-----------------
5226
5227 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5228 or receiver verification errors.
5229
5230 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5231 name.
5232
5233 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5234 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5235 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5236 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5237
5238 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5239 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5240 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5241 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5242 shouldn't happen again.
5243
5244 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5245 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5246 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5247
5248 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5249 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5250
5251 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5252
5253 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5254 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5255
5256 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5257 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5258 RFC.
5259
526010. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5261 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5262 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5263
526411. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5265 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5266 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5267 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5268
526912. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5270 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5271 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5272 to define what should happen).
5273
527413. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5275 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5276 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5277
527814. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5279
528015. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5281
528216. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5283 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5284
528517. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5286 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5287 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5288 structure in all cases.
5289
5290 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5291 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5292 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5293 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5294
529518. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5296 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5297 domain name.
5298
529919. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5300 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5301
530220. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5303 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5304
530521. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5306 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5307 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5308
530922. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5310 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5311 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5312
531323. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5314 the book and for uniformity.
5315
531624. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5317
531825. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5319 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5320 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5321 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5322 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5323 non-existent command as the problem.
5324
532526. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5326 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5327 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5328
532927. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5330
533128. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5332 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5333 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5334
533529. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5336 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5337 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5338 timestamps using strftime().
5339
534030. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5341 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5342
534332. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5344 transport-time rewrites.
5345
534633. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5347 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5348 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5349 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5350
535134. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5352 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5353
535435. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5355 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5356 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5357 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5358 comma and a space.
5359
536036. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5361 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5362 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5363 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5364 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5365 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5366 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5367
536837. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5369 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5370 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5371 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5372 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5373
537438. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5375 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5376 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5377 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5378 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5379 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5380 remaining text gets split now.
5381
538239. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5383 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5384 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5385 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5386
538740. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5388 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5389 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5390 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5391 $return_path.
5392
539341. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5394 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5395 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5396 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5397 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5398 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5399 passed through if needed.
5400
540142. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5402 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5403 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5404 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5405 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5406 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5407
540843. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5409 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5410 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5411 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5412 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5413
541444. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5415 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5416 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5417 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5418 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5419
542045. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5421 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5422 noticed.
5423
542446. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5425 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5426 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5427 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5428 mayhem of various kinds.
5429
543047. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5431 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5432 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5433 the right test for positive values.
5434
543548. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5436 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5437 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5438 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5439 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5440 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5441 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5442 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5443 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5444 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5445 envelope.
5446
544749. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5448 module.
5449
545050. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5451 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5452 forbidding it.
5453
545451. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5455 the existing equality matching.
5456
545752. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5458 dealing with inode numbers.
5459
546053. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5461 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5462 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5463
546454. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5465 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5466 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5467 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5468 local_scan().
5469
547055. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5471 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5472 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5473 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5474 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5475 relay addresses has also been removed.
5476
547756. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5478
547957. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5480 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5481 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5482
548358. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5484 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5485 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5486 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5487 processing applies to CR:
5488
5489 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5490 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5491
5492 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5493 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5494 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5495 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5496
549759. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5498 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5499 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5500
550160. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5502 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5503 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5504 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5505 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5506 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5507 arisen.
5508
550961. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5510 program routers.
5511
551262. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5513 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5514 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5515 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5516 adds:
5517
5518 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5519
5520 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5521
5522 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5523
552463. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5525 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5526 not considered personal.
5527
552864. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5529
553065. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5531
553266. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5533
553467. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5535 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5536 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5537 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5538 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5539 header lines, and spool format errors.
5540
554168. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5542 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5543 for more flexibility.
5544
554569. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5546 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5547 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5548
554970. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5550 Sabourenkov.
5551
555271. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5553 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5554 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5555 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5556 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5557 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5558 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5559 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5560 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5561
556272. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5563 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5564 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5565 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5566 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5567 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5568 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5569
557073. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5571 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5572 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5573
557474. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5575 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5576 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5577 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5578 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5579 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5580 instead of killing the process with assert().
5581
558275. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5583 than Unicode encoding.
5584
558576. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5586 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5587 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5588 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5589
559077. Added process_log_path.
5591
559278. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5593 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5594
559579. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5596 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5597
559880. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5599 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5600 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5601
560281. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5603 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5604 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5605 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5606 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5607 were applied:
5608
5609 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5610 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5611 as invalid.
5612
561382. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5614 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5615 they will be used during message reception.
5616
5617
5618Exim version 4.20
5619-----------------
5620
5621The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
5622
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