Fix SPA authenticator, checking client-supplied data before using it. Bug 2571
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1This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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9JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
10 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
11 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
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13JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
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15JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
16 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
17 option.
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19JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
20 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
21 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
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25JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, whe due to SIGTERM.
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27JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
28 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
29 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
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31JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
32 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
33 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
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35JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
36 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
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38JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
39 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
40 was taken.
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42JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
43 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
44 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
45 should both provide the file and set the option.
46 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
47
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48JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
49 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
50
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51JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
52 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
53 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
54 Authentication-Results: header.
55
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56JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
57 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
58 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
59 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
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61JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
62 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
63 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
64 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
65 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
66 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
67 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
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69JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
70 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
71 copies while it is still usable.
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73JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
74 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
75 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
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77JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
78 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
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82 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
79e5ebf9 83 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
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85JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
86 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
87 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
88 information.
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91 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
92 - the pipe transport command
481e63ca 93 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
7d99cba1 94 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
ed162055 95 - named-queue names
129a5d13 96 - paths used by single-key lookups
9214d2e4 97 Previously this was permitted.
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99JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
100 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
101 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
102 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
103
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104JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
105 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
106 support larger malloc requests.
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109 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
110 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
111 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
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114 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
115 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
116 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
117 indeterminate.
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119JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
120 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
121 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
122 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
123 data being length-specified.
124
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125JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
126 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
127 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
128 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
129
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130JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
131 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
132 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
133 not being properly tracked.
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135JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
136 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
137 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
138 minute could be seen.
139
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140JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
141 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
142 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
143
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144JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
145 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
146
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147JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
148 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
149 non-pipelined mode.
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151JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
152
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153JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
154 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
155
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156JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
157 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
158 filesystem as sufficient validation.
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160JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
161 argument is supplied.
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163JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
164 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
165 access under Exim's current working directory.
166
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167JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
168 Previously no event was raised.
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170JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
171 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
172 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
173 leeway checked.
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175JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
176 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
177 the size of the signature hash.
178
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179JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
180 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
181
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182JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
183 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
184 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
185 dropped between messages.
186
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187JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
188 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
189 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
190 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
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196JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
197 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
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201 its own TCP segment.
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204 each verb.
205
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206JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
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208JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
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210JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
211 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
212
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214 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
215 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
216 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
217 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
218 suitably configured).
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221 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
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224 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
225 crash could result.
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228 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
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231 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
232 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
233 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
234 to this system.
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236JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
237 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
238 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
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241 output.
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244 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
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00c0dd4e 247 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
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249 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
250 input).
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253 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
254 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
255 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
256 (It was "hdr.$pid".)
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269 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
270 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
271 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
272 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
273 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
274 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
275 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
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280 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
281
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282JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
283 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
284 facility.
285
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286JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
287 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
288 documentation.
289
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290JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
291 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
292 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previoud the default was to
293 not do so.
294
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297 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
298
299JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
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301 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
302 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
303 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
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306 reject under TFO.
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313 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
314
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317JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
318 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
319 one for these; the option was ignored.
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321JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
322 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
323 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
324 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
325
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326JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
327 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
328 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
329 standards.
330
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332 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
333 error ignored was made.
334
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336
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338 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
339 values, to catch one form of exploit.
340
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341JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
342 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
343 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
344
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345JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
346 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
347 causing a segfault.
348
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349JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
350 them in our smtp response.
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354 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
355 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
356 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
357
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358JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
359 link count into consideration.
360
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361HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
362 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
363
364JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
365 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
366 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
367 surprise.
368
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370
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371JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
372
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373JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
374
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375JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
376 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
377 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
378 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
379
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382JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
383 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
384 active.
385
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386JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
387 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
388 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
389
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391 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
392 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
393
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394JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
395 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
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396 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
397 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
398 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
399 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
400 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
401 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
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404 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
405 resulted in an indefinite loop.
406
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407JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
408 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
409 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
410
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415JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
416 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
417
418JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
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419 non-signal-safe functions being used.
420
421JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
422 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
423 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
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425JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
426 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
427 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
428
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429JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
430 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
431 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
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432 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
433 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
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434 messed with.
435
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436PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
437 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
438
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439JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
440 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
441 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
442 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
443 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
444 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
445 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
446
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447JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
448 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
449
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450JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
451 legitimate.
452
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453JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
454 Previously this would segfault.
455
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456JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
457 segfault.
458
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459JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
460 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
461 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
462 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
463 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
464 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
465
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467
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468JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
469 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
470 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
471 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
472
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473JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
474
74f1a423
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475JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
476 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
477 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
478 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
479
5054c4fd 480JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
611b1961
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481
482JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
5054c4fd 483
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484JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
485 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
486 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
487
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488JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
489 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
490 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
491
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492PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
493
8a6b4e02
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494JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
495 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
496 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
497 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
498
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499PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
500 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
501 promised '?' replacement.
502
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503PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
504
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505JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
506 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
507 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
508 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
509 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
510
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511JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
512 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
513 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
514
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515JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
516 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
517 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
518
7ea1237c 519JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
570cb1bd 520 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
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521 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
522
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523JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
524 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
525 hope that is portable enough.
526
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527JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
528 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
529 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
530 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
531
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532JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
533 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
534 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
535
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536JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
537 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
538 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
539 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
540
4e928780
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541JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
542 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
543
75c121f0 544JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
059f2ace 545 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
75c121f0
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546 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
547 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
548
e30f4f43
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549JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
550 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
551 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
552
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553JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
554 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
555 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
556 the previous G, M, k.
557
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558JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
559 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
560 it was unset.
561
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562JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
563 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
564 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
565 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
566
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567JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
568 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
569
de6f74f2 570JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
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571 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
572 off past the nul-terimation.
573
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574JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
575 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
576 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
577 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
578 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
579
aa6e77af 580JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
aaf3e414 581
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582JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
583 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
584 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
585 actually does fail.
586
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587AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
588 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
589
590JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
591 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
592 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
518b70e9 593
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594JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
595 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
596 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
597
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598JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
599 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
600
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602Exim version 4.91
603-----------------
459fca58 604
c39c8870 605GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
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606 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
607 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
608 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
609 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
610 be defined in redis_servers.
c39c8870 611
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612GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
613 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
614
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615JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
616 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
617 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
618 extant use locations.
619
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620JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
621 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
622
bbfb5dcd
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623JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
624 Previously only the last row was returned.
625
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626JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
627 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
628 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
629 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
630 input.
631
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632JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
633 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
634 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
635 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
636 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
637 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
638 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
639 Main pool for expansions.
640 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
641 active in the testsuite.
642 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
643
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644JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
645 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
646 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
647 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
648 round-robin DNS.
649
5b6f7658
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650JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
651 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
652 failure response.
653
c11d665d
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654JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
655 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
656 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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657
658JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
659 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
660 ClamAV interface method is removed.
c11d665d 661
ba0e37b1
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662JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
663 rows affected is given instead).
664
96508de1
JH
665JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
666 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
667
06fdb9f7
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668JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
669 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
670 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
671 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
672 for all multi-message initiating connections.
673
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674JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
675 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
676 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
677
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678JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
679 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
680 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
681 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
682 separate.
683
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684JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
685 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
686 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
687 fake-reject.
688
cf3cd306
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689HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
690
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691JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
692 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
693
aab9a843 694PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 695 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 696 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 697
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698JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
699 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
700 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
701 and send a quit.
702
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703JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
704 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
705
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706JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
707 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
708 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
709
c0635b6d
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710JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
711 for the build is renamed.
712
b808677c
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713JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
714 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
715 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
716
6678c382
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717JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
718 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
719 result replacing the original.
720
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721JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
722 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
723 and the resources needed to be freed.
724
15ae19f9
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725JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
726
e6532c4a
JH
727JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
728 was not propagated.
729
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730JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
731 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
732 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
733 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
734
fc8cd529
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735JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
736 length value. Previously this would segfault.
737
71bb51e0
HSHR
738HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
739 newer versions of the scanner.
740
e04bfa34
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741JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
742 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
743 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
744 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
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745 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
746 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
747 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
e04bfa34 748
ecce6d9a
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749JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
750 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
751 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
752 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
753 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
754 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
755 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
756 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
757 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
758 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
759
c9cf9ac4
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760JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
761 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
762
b3b37076
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763JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
764
830832c9
HSHR
765HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
766 allows proper process termination in container environments.
767
f64e8b5f
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768JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
769 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
770
8f0776b5
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771JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
772 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
773 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
774
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775JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
776 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
777 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
5add7dc4 778 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
857eaf37 779
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780JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
781 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
782 would be spooled.
783
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784PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
785 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
786
eb445b04
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787HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
788 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
789 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
790 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
791 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
ad93c40f 792
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793JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
794 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
795 lines.
796
a28050f8
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797JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
798 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
799
ddd16464
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800PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
801 suffix list.
802
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803JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
804 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
805 "bare" representation.
806
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807JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
808 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
809 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
810 corrupted the output.
811
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815
816JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
817 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
818 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
819 pairs of long lines into single ones.
820
856d1e16
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821PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
822 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
823
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824JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
825 This permits better logging.
826
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827JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
828 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
829 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
830 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
831 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 832 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 833
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834JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
835 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
836 "exiwhat" output.
837
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838PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
839 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
840 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
841
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842JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
843 than 255 are no longer allowed.
844
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845JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
846 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
847 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
848 client, there is no benefit for these.
849 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
850 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
851 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
852 is used (3.2.4 +).
853
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854PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
855 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
856
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857JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
858 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
859 erroneously found still-pending ones.
860
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861JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
862 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
863
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864JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
865 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
866 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
867 signature and again for transmission.
868
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869JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
870 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 871 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
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873JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
874 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
875 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
876 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
877 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
878 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
879 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
880
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881JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
882 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
883 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 884 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
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886PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
887 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
888 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
889 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
890 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
891 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
892 processing options.
893
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894JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
895 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
896 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
897 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
898 connections.
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900PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
901 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
902 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
903 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
904 versions.
905
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906JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
907 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
908 inaccessible.
909
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910JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
911 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
912 banner-time rejection.
913
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914JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
915 callout/hold.
916
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917PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
918 is the name of a transport.
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919 Fixes bug 2140.
920
35a04365
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921HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
922
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923JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
924 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
925
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926JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
927 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
928 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
929 during compilation.
930
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931JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
932 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
933 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 934 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
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936JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
937 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
938 initial verify call returned a defer.
939
ad1a76fe 940JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
14de8063
JH
941 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
942
ad1a76fe
JH
943JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
944 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
945
135e9496
JH
946JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
947 if present. Previously it was ignored.
948
f2ed27cf
JH
949JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
950 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
951
7eb0e5d2
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952JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
953 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
954 extensible.
955
4f9f4be4
956PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
957 Patch provided by Jaroslav Škarvada.
958
dc4de9cc
PP
959PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
960 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
961 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
962
ea18931d
JH
963JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
964 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
965 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
966 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
967
0768462d 968HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
2cee425a
HSHR
969 and confused the parent.
970
848214f7
JH
971JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
972 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
973
9e0ed81f
JH
974JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
975 for log purposes.
976
2540f2f8
JH
977JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
978 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
979 out-of-order delivery.
980
e5ab0ba9
JH
981JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
982 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
983 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
984 error for the HELO.
985
e99a3a6c
JH
986JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
987 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
988 desynchronisation.
989
18067c75
JH
990JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
991 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
992 one run was done. Bug 2189.
993
72934ba7
JH
994JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
995 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
996 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
997 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
998 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
999 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1000
625667b6
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1001JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1002 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
b488395f
JH
1003 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1004
1005HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1006 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1007 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
625667b6 1008
d21bf202
JH
1009JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1010 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1011 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1012 though a different problem.
1013
acfc18c3 1014
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4c57a40e 1017
9427e879 1018JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 1019 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 1020
7b283890
JH
1021JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1022
4c57a40e
PP
1023PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1024 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1025
5d036699
JH
1026JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1027 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1028
f4630439
JH
1029JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1030 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1031 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1032 before acknowledging the chunk.
1033
f988ce57
JS
1034PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1035 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1036 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1037
bd8fbe36
JH
1038JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1039 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1040 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1041 should.
1042
1043JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
b895f4b2
JH
1044 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1045 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 1046
bd8fbe36 1047JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
902fbd69
JH
1048 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1049
bd8fbe36
JH
1050JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1051 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1052 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1053 body hash calculated value.
1054
eea19017
JH
1055JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1056 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1057 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1058
44e6651b
JH
1059JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1060
1061JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1062 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1063
1064JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1065 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1066 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1067
1068JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1069 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1070 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1071 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1072 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1073 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1074
1075JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1076 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1077 past that check, despite the cost.
1078
b6040544
JH
1079JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1080 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1081 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1082
f700ea4d
PP
1083PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1084 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1085 TLS library to consume.
1086
da88acae
PP
1087PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1088
f6ef9370
PP
1089PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1090
90341c71
JH
1091JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1092 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1093 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1094 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1095 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1096 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1097 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1098
1ec2ab36
PP
1099PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1100
1101PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1102
1103PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1104 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1105 should be warning-free.
1106
8b2b9480
PP
1107JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1108
1109HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1110 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1111
d953610f
HSHR
1112HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1113 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1114 general solution here.
1115
7dc5f827
PP
1116PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1117 already-broken messages in the queue.
1118
4bb432cb
PP
1119JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1120
3b1a84c8
PP
1121JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1122
902fbd69 1123
8d042305
JH
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4c57a40e 1126
9094b84b
JH
1127JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1128 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 1129
03d5892b
JH
1130JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1131 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1132 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1133
4b0fe319
JH
1134JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1135 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1136 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1137 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1138 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1139 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1140 if one fails this test.
1141 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1142 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1143
789f8a4f
JH
1144JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1145 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1146
23bb6982 1147JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 1148 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 1149
0bd1b1ed 1150JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 1151 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 1152
20b9a2dc
JH
1153JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1154 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1155
05392bbc
JH
1156JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1157 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1158
1a6230a3
JH
1159JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1160
cfab9d68
JH
1161JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1162 certificate).
1163
98c82a3d
JH
1164JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1165 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1166 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1167 connection after a verify cache hit.
1168 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1169
1170JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1171 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1172
ae8386f0
JH
1173JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1174 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1175 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1176 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1177 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1178
0d9fa8c0
JH
1179JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1180 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1181
3581f321
JH
1182JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1183 Previously they were not counted.
1184
ef3a1a30
JH
1185JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1186 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1187 that needed the lookup.
1188
4c04137d 1189JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
27b9e5f4
JH
1190 distinguished as "(=".
1191
1435d4b2
JH
1192JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1193 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1194
eea0defe
JB
1195JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1196
1197JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1198 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 1199
4c04137d 1200JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
72a201e2
TM
1201 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1202
1c788856
JH
1203JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1204 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1205 compatible.
1206
e3b1f624
JH
1207JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1208 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1209 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1210 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1211
a57ce043
JH
1212JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1213
f59aaaaa 1214JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
2d009132
JH
1215 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1216 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 1217
d1f9fb42
JH
1218JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1219 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1220 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1221 be lost.
1222
92b0827a
JH
1223JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1224 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1225 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1226 itself :(
1227
ddf1b11a
JH
1228JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1229 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1230 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1231
3cc3f762
JH
1232JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1233 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1234 options.
1235
ae5afa61
JH
1236JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1237
317e40ac
PP
1238PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1239 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1240
8b0fb68e
PP
1241PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1242 are not in the system include path.
1243
ad7fc6eb 1244JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 1245 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
ad7fc6eb
JH
1246 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1247 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 1248
ee5b1e28
JH
1249JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1250 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1251 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1252
5ddc9771
JH
1253JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1254
8d73599f
JH
1255HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1256 an incoming connection.
1257
446415f5
HSHR
1258HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1259 to rspamd.
1260
8e53a4fc
HSHR
1261HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1262 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 1263
87cb4a16 1264JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 1265 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
87cb4a16
JH
1266
1267
0d9b78be
JH
1268Exim version 4.87
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4c57a40e 1270
82d14d6a
JH
1271JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1272 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1273 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1274 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 1275
6c6d6e48
TF
1276TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1277 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1278
ac881e27
TF
1279TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1280 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1281 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1282 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1283 outgoing I= field.
1284
c8899c20
JH
1285JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1286 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1287 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1288 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1289 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1290 check on the next write.
1291
f1b81d81
HSHR
1292HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1293 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1294 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1295 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1296 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1297
f38917cc
JH
1298JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1299 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1300
895fbaf2
JH
1301JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1302 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1303 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1304
805bb5c3
JH
1305JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1306 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1307 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1308 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1309
56c2a7be
HSHR
1310HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1311 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1312
4c04137d 1313JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
14b3c5bc
JH
1314 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1315
6f6dedcc
JH
1316JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1317 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1318 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1319 distinct.
1320
0f557e90
JH
1321JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1322
1323JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1324
ec0eb1a3
JH
1325JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1326
41e93589
JH
1327JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1328 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1329
98b98887 1330JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
376d2ec0
JH
1331 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1332
98b98887
JH
1333JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1334
858e91c2
JH
1335JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1336 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1337
1338JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1339
6ff55e50
JH
1340JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1341 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1342
3b957582
JB
1343JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1344
23f3dc67
JH
1345JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1346 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 1347 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
23f3dc67
JH
1348 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1349 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1350 they will retry in-clear.
1351 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1352 at installation time.
1353
240c288f
JH
1354HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1355 with the $config_file variable.
1356
5ef5dd52
JB
1357JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1358 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1359 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1360 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 1361 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 1362
e161710d
GF
1363GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1364 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1365 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1366 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1367 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1368
a159f203
JH
1369JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1370
7f06582c
JH
1371JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1372 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1373 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1374 list order is no longer honoured.
1375
4c04137d 1376JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
abe1010c
JH
1377 for DKIM processing.
1378
f0989ec0
JH
1379JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1380 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 1381
cee5f132
JH
1382JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1383 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
e6d2a989
JH
1384 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1385 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 1386
8c5d388a
JH
1387JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1388 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1389
2d8d625b
JH
1390JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1391 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1392
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1393JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1394 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1395
f2f2c91b
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1396JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1397
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1398JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1399 cached by the daemon.
1400
de78e2d5
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1401JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1402 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1403
379ba7d0
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1404JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1405 keys are given for lookup.
1406
f444c2c7
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1407JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1408 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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1409 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1410 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 1411
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1412JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1413 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1414 server-side so match that on older versions.
1415
07c73177 1416JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 1417 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 1418 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 1419
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1420JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1421 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1422
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1423JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1424 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1425 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 1426 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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1427 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1428 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1429 initial truncated version.
1430
ab9152ff 1431JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 1432
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1433JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1434
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1435JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1436 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1437
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1438JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1439
bc3c7bb7 1440HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 1441
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1442JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1443 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1444 induced overflows.
1445
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1446JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1447 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1448 stage.
1449
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1450JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1451 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1452
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1453JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1454 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1455 former class.
1456
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1457JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1458 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1459 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1460
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1461JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1462 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1463 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1464 extraction. Accept either.
1465
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1470JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1471 expanded.
1472
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1473JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1474
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1475JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1476 it.
1477
01a4a5c5 1478JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 1479 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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1480 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1481 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1482
cb1d7830 1483JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 1484 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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1485 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1486
610ff438 1487JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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1488 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1489 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1490 TLS connections
610ff438 1491
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1492JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1493 sites use this now.
1494
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1495JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1496 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1497 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1498 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1499 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1500
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1501JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1502 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 1503 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 1504
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1505JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1506
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1507JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1508 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1509
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1510JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1511 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1512
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1513JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1514 /defer_ok option.
1515
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1516JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1517 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1518
fd4d8871 1519JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 1520 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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1521 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1522
1523JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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1524 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1525 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 1526
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1527JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1528 timeout value per server.
1529
2ad78978
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1530JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1531 now have the list separator specified.
1532
8a512ed5 1533JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 1534 option values.
8a512ed5 1535
82c0c8ea 1536JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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1537 under OpenSSL.
1538
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1539JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1540
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1541JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1542 rather than the verbs used.
1543
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1544JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1545 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1546
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1547JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1548
cfab9d68 1549HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 1550 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 1551
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1552JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1553 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1554
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1555HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1556 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1557
4c04137d 1558JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 1559
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1560JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1561
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1562JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1563 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 1564 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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1565 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1566
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1567JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1568
1f155f8e
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1569JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1570 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1571
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1572JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1573 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1574
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1575JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1576
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1577JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1578
7137ca4b
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1579JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1580
dcb1095c
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1581JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1582 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1583
2f460950
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1584JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1585 added for tls authenticator.
1586
2f680c0c
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1587HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1588
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4c57a40e 1592
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1593TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1594 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1595 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1596 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1597 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1598 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1599 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1600
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1601TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1602 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1603 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1604 function when detected.
1605
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1606JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1607 cause callback expansion.
1608
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1609TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1610 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1611 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1612 instead of bool when processing it.
1613
0f06b4f2 1614JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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1615 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1616
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1617JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1618
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1619JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1620
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1621TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1622
c713ca4b
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1623TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1624 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
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1626JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1627 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1628 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1629 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 1630 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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1631 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1632
8bc732e8
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1633JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1634 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1635 exceeded it.
1636
a7fec7a7
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1637JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1638 version 3.3.6 or later.
1639
4c04137d 1640JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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1641 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1642 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 1643 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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1644 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1645 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1646 option is defined.
774ef2d7 1647
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1648TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1649 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1650
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1651JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1652 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1653 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1654 matches.
1655
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1656JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1657 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1658 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1659
ad4c5ff9
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1660JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1661 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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1662
1663JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1664 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1665 syntax errors.
1666
3394b36a 1667JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
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1668
1669JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1670 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1671
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1672TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1673 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1674 tarball.
1675
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1676JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1677
4c04137d 1678JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
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1679 Bug 1561.
1680
1681JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1682 output list separator was used.
1683
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1687TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1688 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1689 return.
1f0ebb98 1690
a612424f 1691JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1692 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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1693
1694JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1695
1696TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1697 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
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1702
1703TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1704
1705 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1706 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1707 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1708 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1709 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1710 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1711
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1712TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1713 utilities have not been installed.
1714
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1715JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1716 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1717
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1718TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1719 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1720
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1721TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1722 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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1723 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1724 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
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1726JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1727
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1728TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1729 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1730
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1731PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1732 not dns_use_dnssec.
1733
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1734JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1735
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1736TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1737 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1738 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1739
8ddef691 1740TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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1741 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1742 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1743 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1744 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1745 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1746
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1747JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1748
e45a1c37
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1749JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1750 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1751
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1752JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1753 failed delivery.
1754
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1755JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1756
511a6c14 1757JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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1758
1759JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1760 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1761
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1762JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1763 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1764
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1765TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1766
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1767JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1768
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1769JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1770 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1771
1772 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1773 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1774 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1775
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1776TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1777 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1778 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1779 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1780
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1781JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1782
8c51eead 1783JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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1784 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1785 lookup).
8c51eead 1786
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1787TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1788 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1789 Schlichting.
35aba663 1790
fd3b6a4a 1791JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1792 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1793
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1794TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1795 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1796
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1797JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1798
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1799TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1800 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1801 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1802
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1803JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1804 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1805
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1806JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1807 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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1808 hosts_request_ocsp.
1809
ed3bba5f 1810JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1811 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1812 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1813
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1814JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1815
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1816TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1817 Christian Aistleitner.
1818
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1819JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1820
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1821TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1822 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1823
00bff6f6
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1824JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1825 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1826
071c51f7
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1827JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1828 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1829
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1830TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1831 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1832
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1833TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1834 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1835
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1836TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1837 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1838 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1839
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1840JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1841
66be95e0
PP
1842PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1843 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1844 Jasper Wallace.
1845
1bd0d12b
JH
1846JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1847
0de7239e
TL
1848TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1849 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1850 CVE-2014-2972
1851
fd3b6a4a 1852
2c422e6f 1853Exim version 4.82
98a90c36
PP
1854-----------------
1855
1856PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1857
12f69989
PP
1858PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1859 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1860
54c90be1
PP
1861PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1862 by GnuTLS.
1863
1f4a55da
PP
1864PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1865 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1866 routines.
1867
13363eba 1868PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1869
66645890 1870PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
e402235f
PP
1871 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1872 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1873 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1874 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1875
a3fb9793 1876PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
1877 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1878 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1879 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1880 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1881 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1882
d27f98fe 1883TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1884
6822b909
TL
1885TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1886
e7568d51
TL
1887TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1888 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1889
ae0e32ee 1890TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1891 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1892 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
TL
1893
1894TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1895
e2658fff
TL
1896TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1897
83712b39
TL
1898TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1899 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1900
976b7e9f
JH
1901JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1902
be4a1376
JH
1903JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1904
ec4b68e5
PP
1905PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1906
d7148a07
NM
1907NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1908 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1909
585121e2 1910JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1911
2519e60d
TL
1912PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1913 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1914 function.
a5f239e4 1915
13d08c90
PP
1916PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1917 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1918
bef3ea7f
JH
1919JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1920 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1921 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1922
846726c5
JH
1923JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1924
3a796370
JH
1925JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1926
ea722490 1927JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1928 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1929
b1b05573
JH
1930JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1931 Bugzilla 884.
1932
362145b5
JH
1933JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1934 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1935
3c0a92dc
JH
1936JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1937 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1938
6d7c6175
PP
1939PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1940 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1941 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1942
6f123593
JH
1943JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1944 authenticators.
1945
c8e2fc1e
JH
1946JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1947 for control.
1948
005ac57f
PP
1949PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1950
3f1df0e3
PP
1951PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1952 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1953 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1954 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1955
67bd1ab3
TF
1956TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1957
1958 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1959 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1960 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1961 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1962 the retry rules.
1963
1964 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1965 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1966 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1967
1968 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1969 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1970 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1971 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1972
1ddeb334
TF
1973 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1974 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1975 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1976 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1977 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1978 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1979 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1980
1981 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1982 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1983
326cdc37
TF
1984TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1985
1986 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1987
1988 Resent-From: f
1989
1990 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1991 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1992 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1993 username as equal to the username.
1994
1995 This change corrects that bug.
1996
f62514b3
GF
1997GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1998 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1999 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2000
eb505532
TF
2001TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2002
14c7b357
PP
2003PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2004 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2005 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2006 NULL dereference and crash.
2007
94eaf700
PP
2008JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2009
6f5a440a
PP
2010PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2011 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2012 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2013
514ee161
SC
2014SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2015
fd98a5c6
JH
2016JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2017 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2018 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2019 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2020 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2021 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2022 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 2023 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
2024 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2025 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2026 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2027
035c7f1e
PP
2028PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2029 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2030
ff284120
PP
2031PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2032 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2033 Bugzilla 880.
2034
26e72755
PP
2035PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2036 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2037 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2038 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2039 an empty string is now equivalent.
2040
0fbd9bff
PP
2041PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2042 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2043 not performing validation itself.
2044
700d22f3
PP
2045PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2046 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2047
fcc8e047
JH
2048JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2049 Bugzilla 321, 823.
2050
4c04137d 2051TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 2052
8c020188
PP
2053PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2054 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2055 other false fix of the same issue.
2056 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2057 Bugzilla 1363.
2058
d13cdd30
PP
2059PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2060 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2061
e2fbf4a2
PP
2062PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2063 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2064 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2065
f4c1088b
PP
2066PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2067 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2068 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2069
c5c2182f
PP
2070TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2071
73431ca9
JH
2072JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2073
2d07a215
TL
2074TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2075 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2076
a30a8861
TL
2077TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2078 Alexander Miroch.
2079
33382dd9
TL
2080TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2081 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2082 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2083 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2084 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 2085
046172e6
TL
2086TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2087 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2088
581d7bee 2089TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 2090 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
2091 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
2092
2093TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2094 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2095 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2096 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2097
237b2cf2
TL
2098TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2099
9fc5a352
TL
2100TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2101 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2102 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 2103
b10e4ec2
TL
2104TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2105
e2cebd74
TL
2106TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2107 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2108 interaction.
2109
2110TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2111 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2112
2519e60d
TL
2113TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2114 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2115
e78e6ecf 2116
4263f395
PP
2117Exim version 4.80.1
2118-------------------
2119
2120PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2121 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 2122 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 2123
ea722490 2124
b1770b6e 2125Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
2126-----------------
2127
2128PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2129 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2130 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2131
23c7e742
NM
2132NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2133
b322aac8
NM
2134NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2135 improved.
2136
4a891427
NM
2137NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2138
c1e794ba 2139PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 2140
97753960
PP
2141PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2142
2143PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2144 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2145
df6303fa
PP
2146PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2147 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2148
7e6a8985
PP
2149PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2150 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2151
f1e05cc7 2152PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
2153 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2154 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 2155
4c287009
PP
2156PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2157
b98bb9ac
PP
2158PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2159 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2160
4a6a987a
PP
2161PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2162
c45dd180 2163PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 2164
7db8d074
PP
2165PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2166 non-compliant senders.
2167 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2168
eae0036b 2169NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 2170 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
2171 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2172
dec5017e
PP
2173PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2174 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2175 in spool file corruption.
2176
c80c5570
PP
2177PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2178 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2179 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2180 "Got SSL error 2".
2181
076b11e2
PP
2182TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2183 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2184 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2185
5407bfff
JH
2186JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2187 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2188
9e45c72b
PP
2189JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2190
e74376d8
PP
2191PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2192 diagnostics.
2193 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2194
4c04137d 2195PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
2196 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2197 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2198
7be682ca
PP
2199PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2200 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
2201 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2202 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 2203
ef840681
PP
2204PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2205 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2206
5bfb4cdf
PP
2207PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2208 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2209 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2210 resolver implementation change.
2211
c6e95d22
PP
2212PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2213 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2214
9cbad13b
PP
2215PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2216
9ee44efb
PP
2217PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2218
6a6084f8
PP
2219PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2220 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2221
12dd53c7
PP
2222PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2223 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2224
9e45c72b 2225JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
2226 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2227
17c76198
PP
2228PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2229 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2230 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2231 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 2232 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 2233
53947857 2234PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 2235
eae0036b 2236PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
2237 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2238 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 2239
9e45c72b 2240JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 2241
7390e768
PP
2242PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2243 read-only, out of scope).
2244 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2245
08488c86
PP
2246PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2247 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2248 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2249 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2250
6475bd82
PP
2251PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2252
81f91683
PP
2253PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2254 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2255 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2256 real issues in debug logging.
2257
5779e6aa
PP
2258PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2259 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2260
3375e053
PP
2261PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2262 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2263 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2264
2265PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2266 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
2267 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2268 problems.
3375e053 2269
9d26b8c0
PP
2270PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2271 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2272
57eb9e91 2273PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
2274 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2275 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2276 needs to override this, it can.
2277
16880d1a
PP
2278PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2279 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2280 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2281
a799883d
PP
2282PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2283 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2284 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2285 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2286
3ecab157 2287PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 2288
0599f9cf 2289
867fcbf5
PP
2290Exim version 4.77
2291-----------------
2292
2293PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2294 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2295
f1a29782
TF
2296TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2297
ab42bd23
TK
2298TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2299 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 2300
0ca0cf52
TF
2301TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2302 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2303
921b12ca
TF
2304TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2305 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2306 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2307
2308 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2309 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2310 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2311 not safe for signals.
2312
2313 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2314 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2315 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2316 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2317 exiwhat.
2318
c99ce5c9
TF
2319TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2320
2321 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2322 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2323 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2324 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 2325 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
2326
2327 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2328 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2329 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2330 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2331 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2332 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2333
2334 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2335 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2336 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2337 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2338
2339 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2340 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2341 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2342 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2343
2344 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2345 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2346 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2347 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2348 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2349 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2350 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2351 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2352 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2353
2354 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2355 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2356 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2357 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2358
2359 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2360 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2361 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2362 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2363 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2364 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2365 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2366 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2367 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2368 details in the main documentation.
2369
3634fc25
TF
2370TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2371
792e8a19
TF
2372TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2373
5901f0ab
TF
2374TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2375 repository when doing development or release builds.
2376
7f2a2a43
PP
2377PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2378 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 2379
061b7ebd
PP
2380PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2381 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2382 Bugzilla 97.
2383
e12f8c32
PP
2384PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2385
9e949f00 2386PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
2387 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2388
2389PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2390 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 2391
555ae6af 2392PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
2393 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2394
2395PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2396 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 2397
6f7fe114
PP
2398PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2399 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2400
c566dd90
PP
2401PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2402 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
2403 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2404 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 2405
d6cc7c78 2406PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
2407 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2408 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2409
0d0e4455
PP
2410PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2411
3399bb60 2412PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
2413
2414PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2415 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2416
0ca0cf52 2417
10906672
PP
2418Exim version 4.76
2419-----------------
2420
2421PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2422
754a0503
PP
2423PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2424 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2425
c0c7b2da
PP
2426PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2427
e97d1f08
PP
2428PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2429
084c1d8c
PP
2430PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2431 Bugzilla 1098.
2432
4e7ee012
PP
2433PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2434 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 2435
c8d52a00
PP
2436TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2437 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2438
54e7ce4a
PP
2439PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2440 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2441
5ee6f336
PP
2442PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2443 Bugzilla 1104.
2444
c8d52a00 2445TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
2446 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2447
2448TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2449 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2450 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2451 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2452
2453PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2454 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 2455
10906672 2456
aa097c4c
NM
2457Exim version 4.75
2458-----------------
2459
4c04137d 2460NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
2461 Bugzilla 1073
2462
7f3d9eff
TF
2463TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2464 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2465 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2466
159f52d2
TF
2467TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2468 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2469
0cc9542a
PP
2470PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2471 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2472 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2473
f7274286
PP
2474PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2475 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2476
7b797365
PP
2477PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2478 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2479
caacae52
NM
2480NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2481 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2482
09dcaba9
NM
2483NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2484 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2485
bc19a55b
PP
2486PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2487 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 2488
bd4c9759
NM
2489NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2490 Fixes bug 943.
2491
b72aab72
PP
2492PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2493 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2494
2fe76745
PP
2495PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2496 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2497
76aa570c
PP
2498PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2499 SQL string expansion failure details.
2500 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2501
f1e5fef5
PP
2502PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2503 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2504
4d805ee9
PP
2505PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2506 extern declarations in function scope.
2507 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2508
cd59ab18
PP
2509PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2510 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2511 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2512 a kernel bug).
2513
332f5cf3
PP
2514PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2515 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2516
29cfeb94
PP
2517PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2518 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2519
660242ad
PP
2520PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2521 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2522
bc4bc4c5
PP
2523PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2524 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2525
2e64baa9
NM
2526NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2527 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2528 Dennis Davis.
2529
4c04137d 2530PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 2531
6bac1a9a
PP
2532PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2533
552193f0
NM
2534NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2535 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 2536
1b587e48
TF
2537TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2538 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2539
aa097c4c 2540
8c07b69f
TF
2541Exim version 4.74
2542-----------------
2543
2544TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2545 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2546
c0ea85ab
TF
2547TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2548 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2549
0761d44e
TF
2550TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2551
0a349494
PP
2552DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2553 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2554 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2555
2556PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2557 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2558 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2559
fea24b2e
PP
2560PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2561 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2562 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2563 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2564
6545de78
PP
2565PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2566 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2567 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2568 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2569
1670ef10
PP
2570PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2571 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2572 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2573 arbitrary files.
2574
c0886197
PP
2575PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2576 (Wolfgang Breyha)
2577
b7487bce
PP
2578PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2579 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2580 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2581 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2582 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2583
8c07b69f 2584
97fd1e48 2585Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 2586-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
2587
2588PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2589 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2590 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2591
6901c596
PP
2592PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2593 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2594
a8c8d6b5
JJ
2595JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2596
77bb000f
PP
2597PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2598
a29e5231
PP
2599PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2600
ec5a0394 2601PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 2602
55c75993
PP
2603PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2604
453a6645 2605PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
2606 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2607 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
2608 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2609
8544e77a
PP
2610PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2611 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2612 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
2613 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2614 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 2615
83e029d5
PP
2616PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2617
ed7f7860
PP
2618PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2619
7d9f747b
PP
2620PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2621
4b2241d2
PP
2622PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2623
10385c15
PP
2624PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2625
dbc4b90d
PP
2626PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2627
532be449
PP
2628PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2629
6a8de854 2630PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
2631 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2632 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 2633
5dc43717
JJ
2634JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2635
2636JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2637 "exim" to be used
55c75993 2638
3346ab01
PP
2639PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2640 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2641
491fab4c
PP
2642PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2643 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2644 Notification from John Horne.
2645
13eb9497
PP
2646PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2647 compatible.
2648
2649PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2650 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2651 it normally works.
2652
7f36d675
DW
2653DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2654 access.
2655
c1d94452
DW
2656DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2657 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2658 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2659
e2f5dc15
DW
2660DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2661 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2662 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2663 configuration file.
2664
cd25e41d
DW
2665DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2666 option (effectively making it always true).
2667
261dc43e
DW
2668DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2669 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2670
fa32850b
DW
2671DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2672 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2673
79d4bc3d
PP
2674PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2675 run-time user, instead of root.
2676
43236f35 2677PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2678 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2679
fb08281f
DW
2680DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2681 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2682 arguments.
3346ab01 2683
74935b98
DW
2684DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2685 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2686 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2687
90b6341f
DW
2688DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2689
57730b52
ML
2690NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2691
66581d1e 2692
465e92cf
JJ
2693Exim version 4.72
2694-----------------
2695
453a6645
PP
2696JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2697 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2698 typos
465e92cf 2699
453a6645
PP
2700JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2701 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2702 (Finput)
edae0343 2703
9bd3e22c
NM
2704NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2705 Patch from Alain Williams
2706
bb576ff7
NM
2707NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2708
5a1a5845
NM
2709NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2710 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2711
981a9fad
NM
2712NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2713 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2714
7fc497ee
NM
2715NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2716
1a41defa
JJ
2717JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2718
a466095c 2719NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2720 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2721
94a6bd0b
NM
2722TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2723
2724TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2725
2726MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2727 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2728 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2729
c1b141a8
NM
2730NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2731 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2732
b26eacf1 2733NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2734 Patch by Simon Arlott
2735
179c5980 2736PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2737 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2738
9bd3e22c 2739
7c6d71af
NM
2740Exim version 4.71
2741-----------------
2742
7d9f747b 2743TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2744
f013fb92
NM
2745NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2746
0eb8eedd
NM
2747NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2748
663ee6d9
NM
2749NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2750
177ebd9b
NM
2751NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2752
7c6d71af 2753
210f147e
NM
2754Exim version 4.70
2755-----------------
2756
cdd3bb85 2757TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2758 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2759
2760TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2761 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2762 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2763
2764TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2765 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2766 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2767
2768TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2769 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2770
210f147e
NM
2771NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2772 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2773 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2774 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2775
deafd5b3
NM
2776NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2777 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2778 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2779
089793a4
TF
2780TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2781
5f16ca82
TF
2782TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2783
dae9d94e 2784NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2785 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2786
7d9f747b 2787NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2788
06864c44
TF
2789TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2790 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2791 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2792 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2793
65a7d8c3 2794NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2795 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2796
23510047 2797TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2798
7d9f747b 2799NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2800
7d8eec3a 2801NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2802 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2803
89dec7b6
TF
2804TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2805 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2806
a99de90c
TF
2807TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2808 that they are available at delivery time.
2809
e2803e40
TF
2810TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2811
7199e1ee
TF
2812TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2813 incoming_port log selectors.
2814
e276e04b
TF
2815TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2816 setting expands to an empty string.
2817
ce552449 2818NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2819 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2820
e765a0f1 2821NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2822 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2823
4f054c63 2824NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2825 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2826
7d9f747b
PP
2827NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2828 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2829
7d9f747b
PP
2830NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2831 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2832
b52bc06e 2833NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2834 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2835
447de4b0
NM
2836NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2837
4c69d561 2838NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2839 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2840
d5c39246 2841NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2842 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2843
0b23848a
TK
2844TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2845
8f3414a1 2846NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2847 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2848
fb6f955d
NM
2849NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2850
2851NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2852
7d9f747b
PP
2853NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2854 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2855
7d9f747b
PP
2856NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2857 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2858
7d9f747b
PP
2859NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2860 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2861
7d9f747b
PP
2862NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2863 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2864
7d9f747b
PP
2865NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2866 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2867
7d9f747b
PP
2868NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2869 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2870
7d9f747b
PP
2871NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2872 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2873
7d9f747b 2874NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2875 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2876
7d9f747b 2877NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2878
7d9f747b
PP
2879NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2880 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2881
7d9f747b 2882NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2883
7d9f747b 2884NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2885
7d9f747b 2886NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2887
7d9f747b 2888NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2889
17792b53 2890NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2891 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2892
7d9f747b
PP
2893NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2894 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2895
91576cec 2896NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2897 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2898
7d9f747b
PP
2899NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2900 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2901
7d9f747b 2902NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2903
7d9f747b 2904NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2905
7d9f747b 2906NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2907
7d9f747b 2908NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2909
deafd5b3 2910
47db1125
NM
2911Exim version 4.69
2912-----------------
2913
4b3504d0
TK
2914TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2915 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2916 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2917
2918 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2919 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2920 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2921 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2922 build errors in sieve.c.
2923
81ea09ca
NM
2924NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2925 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2926 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2927
f13cddcb
SC
2928SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2929
7d9f747b 2930NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2931
7d9f747b 2932NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2933
7d9f747b 2934NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2935
2936
eb4c0de6
PH
2937Exim version 4.68
2938-----------------
2939
2940PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2941
6a3bceb1
PH
2942PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2943 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2944 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2945 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2946 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2947 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2948 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2949 for iplsearch lookups.
2950
2951 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2952 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2953 previously such lookups could never work.
2954
4c04137d 2955 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2956 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2957 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2958
2e30fa9d
TK
2959TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2960 version.
2961
0806a9c5
MH
2962MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2963 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2964 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2965 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2966 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2967 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2968
ae276964
TK
2969TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2970 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2971
0f2cbd1b
MH
2972MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2973 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2974 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2975 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2976 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2977 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2978
2b85bce7
PH
2979PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2980 local_scan API.
2981
93655c46
PH
2982PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2983
6c512171
PH
2984PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2985 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2986 encrypted.
2987
2988PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2989 by clients under certain conditions.
2990
aa6dc513
PH
2991PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2992 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2993
a96603a0
PH
2994PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2995
8f240103
PH
2996PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2997 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2998
2999PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3000
d677b2f2
PH
3001PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3002
d52120f2
PH
3003PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3004
64f2600a
PH
3005PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3006 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3007
8669f003
PH
3008PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3009
a4dc33a8
PH
3010PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3011 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3012
d6a60c0f
PH
3013PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3014
8f128379
PH
3015PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3016
8932dffe
PH
3017PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3018 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3019 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3020 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 3021
ddea74fa 3022PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
3023 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3024 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3025
ddea74fa 3026PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
3027 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3028
ddea74fa
PH
3029PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3030
ce9f225c
PH
3031PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3032
19897d52
PH
3033PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3034
bc64a74d
PH
3035PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3036 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3037 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3038
eb4c0de6 3039
b4ed4da0
PH
3040Exim version 4.67
3041-----------------
3042
22ad45c9
MH
3043MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3044 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3045 Jan Srzednicki.
3046
b4ed4da0
PH
3047PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3048 issue a MAIL command.
3049
431b7361
PH
3050PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3051
3052 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3053
3054 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3055 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3056 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3057 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3058 item. This has been fixed.
3059
3060PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3061 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3062
83da1223
PH
3063PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3064 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3065
54fc8428
PH
3066PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3067 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3068 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3069
34c5e8dd
SC
3070SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3071
bbe15da8
PH
3072PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3073 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3074 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3075 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3076 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3077
0e8a9471
MH
3078MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3079 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3080 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3081
f0872424
PH
3082PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3083 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3084 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3085 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3086
b01dd148
PH
3087PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3088
6bf342e1
PH
3089PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3090
273f34d0
PH
3091PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3092 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3093 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3094 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3095 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3096
cf8b11a5
PH
3097PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3098
41c7c167
PH
3099PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3100 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3101 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3102 values).
3103
9c57cbc0
PH
3104PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3105
f3f065bb
PH
3106PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3107
047bdd8c
PH
3108PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3109
0ce9abe6
PH
3110PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3111
0e22dfd1
PH
3112PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3113
4c590bd1
PH
3114PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3115 no_callout_flush is set.
3116
09945f1e
PH
3117PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3118 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3119 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3120 fixed.
3121
c51b8e75
PH
3122PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3123
e28326d8 3124PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 3125 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
3126 other ACL rejections are.
3127
75b1493f
PH
3128PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3129 with slight modification.
3130
7c5214ec
PH
3131PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3132 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3133
4311097e
PH
3134PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3135 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3136 connection.
3137
29f89cad
PH
3138PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3139 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3140
5e687460
SC
3141SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3142
c3611384
PH
3143PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3144 expansion side effects.
3145
5a11a7b4
PH
3146PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3147 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3148 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3149 be the same.
3150
0e20aff9
MH
3151MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3152 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3153 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3154
ca86f471
PH
3155PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3156 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3157 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3158 were accidentally chopped off.
3159
a14e5636
PH
3160PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3161 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3162 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3163 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3164 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3165 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3166 pipelining has not been advertised.
3167
ec95d1a6
PH
3168PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3169
42855d71
PH
3170PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3171 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3172 This has been fixed.
3173
57c2c631
PH
3174PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3175 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3176 reported on Solaris.
3177
58c01c94
PH
3178PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3179 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3180 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3181 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3182 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3183 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3184 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3185
dee5a20a
PH
3186PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3187 cpus.
3188
d2ee6114
PH
3189PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3190
b2d5182b
PH
3191PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3192
79749a79
PH
3193PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3194 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
3195 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3196 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3197 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3198 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 3199
c456d9bb
PH
3200PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3201 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3202 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3203 host_all_ignored option.
3204
cd9868ec
PH
3205PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3206 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3207 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3208 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3209 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3210 is what is supposed to happen).
3211
ebeaf996
PH
3212PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3213 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3214 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3215 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3216 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3217 uses the Exim user.
3218
2679d413
PH
3219PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3220 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3221 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3222 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3223 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3224 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3225 users.
3226
84024b72
PH
3227PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3228
8005d38e
SC
3229SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3230 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3231 (Jez Hancock).
3232 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3233 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3234
3298c6c6
SC
3235SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3236
a43a27c5
PH
3237PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3238
58eb016e 3239PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
3240 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3241 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3242 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3243 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3244 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3245 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3246 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 3247 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
3248 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3249 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 3250
b43a74ea
PH
3251PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3252 advertised in response to EHLO.
3253
b4ed4da0 3254
5dd1517f
PH
3255Exim version 4.66
3256-----------------
3257
3258PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3259 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3260
3261 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3262 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3263
3264 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3265 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3266 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3267
3268 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3269 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3270 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3271 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3272 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3273
3274
93cfa765
TK
3275Exim version 4.65
3276-----------------
3277
3278TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3279 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3280 versions. (#438)
3281
d6066548
MH
3282MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3283 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3284 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3285
4362ff0d
PH
3286PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3287 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3288 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3289 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3290 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3291 rather than extend the field.
3292
93cfa765 3293
944e9e9c
TF
3294Exim version 4.64
3295-----------------
aa41d2de 3296
21d74bd9
TK
3297TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3298 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3299 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3300 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3301 these files.
3302
3303TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3304 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3305 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3306
3307TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3308 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3309 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
3310
3311TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3312 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3313 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3314 in the field name.
3315
2b1c6e3a
PH
3316PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3317 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3318 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3319 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3320 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3321 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3322 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3323 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3324 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3325 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3326 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3327
1f872c80
PH
3328PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3329 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
3330
3331PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3332 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3333 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3334 ignores EPIPE as well.
3335
d203e649
PH
3336PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3337 (quoted-printable decoding).
3338
cc2ed8f7 3339PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 3340 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 3341
ddfcd446
PH
3342PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3343
d45b1de8
PH
3344PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3345
3346PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3347
38a0a95f 3348PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 3349 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 3350
a2405d83
JJ
3351JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3352 in 4.64-PH/09.
3353
3354JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3355 miscellaneous code fixes
3356
6ea85e9a
PH
3357PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3358 rejections.
3359
26da7e20
PH
3360PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3361 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3362 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3363 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3364 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3365 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3366 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3367 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 3368
14aa5a05 3369PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 3370 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
3371 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3372 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3373 function.
3374 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3375 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3376 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3377 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3378 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3379 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3380 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3381 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3382 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3383
ff75a1f7
PH
3384PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3385 decoding.
3386
e6f6568e
PH
3387PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3388 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3389 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3390 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3391 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3392 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3393 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3394 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3395
d6f6e0dc
PH
3396PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3397 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3398 list.
3399
322050c2
PH
3400PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3401 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3402 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3403 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3404 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3405 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3406 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3407 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3408 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3409 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3410 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3411 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3412 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3413
08955dd3
PH
3414PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3415 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3416 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3417 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3418 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3419 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3420 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3421
1eccaa59
PH
3422PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3423 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3424 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3425 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3426 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3427 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3428 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3429 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3430 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3431 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3432
602e59e5
PH
3433PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3434 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3435 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3436 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3437 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3438
411ef850
PH
3439PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3440 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3441 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3442 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3443 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3444 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3445 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3446
7befa435
PH
3447PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3448 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3449 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3450 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3451 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3452 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3453 been verified.
3454
48da4259 3455PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
3456 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3457 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3458 and authorization.)
3459
48da4259
PH
3460PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3461 if any retry times were supplied.
3462
d1d5595c
PH
3463PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3464 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3465 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3466
0ef732d9
PH
3467PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3468
328895cc
PH
3469PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3470
fd700877
PH
3471PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3472 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3473 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3474 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
3475 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3476 before) are ignored.
fd700877 3477
8dce1a6f
PH
3478PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3479 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3480
17af4a17
PH
3481PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3482 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3483 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
3484
3485PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3486 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3487 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3488 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3489 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3490 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3491 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3492 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3493 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3494
3495 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3496 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3497 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3498 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3499 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3500 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3501 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3502 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3503 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3504
3505 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3506 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3507 hammering the server.
3508
c1114884
PH
3509PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3510 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3511
7a0743eb
PH
3512PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3513
0d85fa3f
PH
3514PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3515 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3516 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3517
1bf43b78
PH
3518PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3519 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3520 one case where this was not true.
3521
520de300
PH
3522PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3523 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3524 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3525 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3526 fails.
3527
48c7f9e2
PH
3528PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3529 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3530 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3531 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 3532 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
3533 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3534 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3535 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3536 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3537 smtp transport.
3538
99ea1c86
PH
3539PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3540 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3541 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3542 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3543
a2042e78
PH
3544PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3545 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3546
4fbcfc2e
PH
3547PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3548 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3549 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3550
aa41d2de
PH
3551PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3552
af561417
PH
3553PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3554
3cc66b45
PH
3555PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3556
194cc0e4
PH
3557PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3558 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3559 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3560 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3561
a401ddaa
PH
3562PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3563 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3564
4e88a19f
PH
3565PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3566 be meaningful with "accept".
3567
d7d7b289
SC
3568SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3569 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3570
3571SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3572 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3573 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3574
3575SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3576 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3577 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3578 there is data to show.
3579 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3580
3581SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3582 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3583 as well as the number of messages.
3584
3585SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3586 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3587 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3588
3589SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3590 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3591 have a flag are now skipped.
3592
3593SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3594 Added the -emptyok flag.
3595
3596SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3597 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3598
0ea2a468
JJ
3599JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3600 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 3601 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
3602
3603JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3604 match 4.64-PH/13
3605
3606JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3607 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3608
3609JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3610
3611JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3612 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3613
8a10f5a4
PH
3614PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3615
30e18802
PH
3616PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3617 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3618 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3619 contravention of the specifications.
3620
55728a4f
PH
3621PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3622 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3623 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 3624
d7837193
PH
3625PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3626 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3627 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3628
87054a31
PH
3629PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3630
ea2c01d2
MH
3631MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3632 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3633 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3634 some point in the past.
3635
e4fa6968
PH
3636PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3637 transport during callout processing was broken.
3638
56f5d9bd
PH
3639PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3640 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3641
922e1c28
PH
3642PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3643 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3644
21eb6e72
PH
3645PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3646 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3647
a0540757
PH
3648PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3649
944e9e9c 3650
478be7b0
SC
3651Exim version 4.63
3652-----------------
3653
3654SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3655 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3656
3657SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3658 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3659 there is data to show.
3660 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3661
3662SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3663 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3664
2b965a65
TF
3665TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3666 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3667
45b91596
PH
3668TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3669 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3670
c59f5781
TF
3671TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3672 submissions from trusted users.
3673
90fc3069
TF
3674TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3675 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3676
6083aca0
TF
3677TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3678 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3679 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3680 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3681 there is now a framework to start from.
3682
765b530f
PH
3683PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3684 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3685 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3686
4e167a8c
PH
3687PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3688
4608d683
PH
3689PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3690
b8dc3e4a
PH
3691PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3692
5418e93b
PH
3693PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3694 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3695 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3696
b4a9bda2
PH
3697PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3698 libradius.
3699
45b91596
PH
3700PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3701 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3702 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3703
5547e2c5
PH
3704PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3705 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3706 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3707 its arguments.
3708
dbcef0ea
PH
3709PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3710 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3711 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3712 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3713 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3714
25257489
PH
3715PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3716 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3717
c816d124
PH
3718PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3719
a9ccd69a
PH
3720PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3721 operations in malware.c.
3722
75fa1910
PH
3723PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3724 signatures.
3725
a7d7aa58
PH
3726PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3727 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3728 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3729 all.
3730
42119b09
PH
3731PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3732 statements to "add_header".
3733
41609df5
PH
3734PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3735 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3736
a5bd321b
PH
3737PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3738 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3739 latter.
3740
e85a7ad5 3741PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3742 so that it is now:
3743
e85a7ad5
PH
3744 ${if or { \
3745 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3746 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3747 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3748 }{no}{yes}}
3749
e85a7ad5
PH
3750 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3751 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3752
d8fe1c03
PH
3753PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3754 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3755
16282d2b
PH
3756PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3757 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3758 any possible encoding problems.
3759
35d40a98
PH
3760PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3761 but not after initializing Perl.
3762
034d99ab
PH
3763PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3764 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3765 apparently, which is not desirable.
3766
6ec97b1b
PH
3767PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3768 queries.
3769
e22ca4ac
JJ
3770JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3771 --not options
3772
3773JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3774
33d73e3b
PH
3775PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3776 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3777 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3778 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3779
9ecb03f3
PH
3780PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3781 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3782 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3783
084efe8d
PH
3784PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3785 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3786 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3787 0.12.
3788
366fc9f0
PH
3789PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3790 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3791 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3792 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3793 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3794
c59f5781 3795
c887c79e
TF
3796Exim version 4.62
3797-----------------
3798
3799TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3800 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3801
1cce3af8
PH
3802PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3803 patch).
3804
afb3eaaf
PH
3805PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3806 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3807 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3808 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3809 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3810 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3811 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3812 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3813 451 error is used.
3814
e173618b
PH
3815PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3816
dd16e114
PH
3817PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3818 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3819 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3820
f7fd3850
PH
3821PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3822 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3823 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3824 odd errors.
3825
d87df92c
PH
3826PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3827 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3828
7e9f683d
PH
3829PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3830 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3831 option (which defaults to 0600).
3832
bfad5236
PH
3833PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3834
01c490df
PH
3835PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3836 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3837 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3838 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3839 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3840 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3841 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3842
d6629cdc
PH
3843PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3844
1cce3af8 3845
214e2000
PH
3846Exim version 4.61
3847-----------------
3848
3849PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3850 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3851 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3852 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3853 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3854 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3855 addresses as local.
3856
f9daeae0
PH
3857PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3858 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3859
7e66e54d
PH
3860PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3861
c8ea1597
PH
3862PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3863 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3864 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3865 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3866 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3867 grumble.
3868
911f6fde
PH
3869PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3870 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3871
47ca6d6c
PH
3872PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3873 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3874 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3875 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3876 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3877
ed0e9820
PH
3878PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3879 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3880 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3881 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3882
eff37e47
PH
3883PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3884 be the same on different OS.
3885
1921d2ea
PH
3886PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3887 testing.
3888
b3f69ca8
JJ
3889JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3890 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3891
3892JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3893 in 4.61-PH/06
3894
424a1c63
PH
3895PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3896 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3897 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3898 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3899 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3900 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3901 bounce message.
3902
7a100415
PH
3903PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3904 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3905 when Exim was called.
3906
19b9dc85
PH
3907PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3908 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3909
309bd837
PH
3910PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3911 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3912 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3913 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3914
59e82a2a
PH
3915PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3916 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3917 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3918 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3919 changes:
3920
3921 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3922 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3923 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3924
3925 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3926 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3927 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3928
9edc04ce
PH
3929PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3930 feature).
3931
1349e1e5
PH
3932PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3933 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3934 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3935 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3936 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3937 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3938 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3939 values from the SRV records were lost.
3940
ea49d0e1
PH
3941PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3942 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3943 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3944
064a94c9
PH
3945PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3946 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3947 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3948
727071f8
PH
3949PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3950 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3951 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3952 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3953 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3954 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3955 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3956 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3957 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3958 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3959
f78eb7c6
PH
3960PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3961 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3962 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3963
21c28500
PH
3964PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3965 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3966
3967PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3968 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3969 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3970 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3971 is given.
3972
1688f43b
PH
3973PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3974 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3975 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3976
3977PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3978 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3979 PH/23 above applies.
3980
9675b384
PH
3981PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3982 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3983 (for which there is an explicit test).
3984
6a3f1455
PH
3985PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3986
dac79d3e
PH
3987PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3988 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3989 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3990 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3991 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3992
5977a0b3
PH
3993PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3994 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3995 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3996 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3997
c91535f3
PH
3998PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3999 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4000 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4001
0d46a8c8
PH
4002PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4003
278c6e6c
PH
4004PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4005
2cbb4081
PH
4006PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4007 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4008 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4009
3eef829e
PH
4010PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4011 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4012 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4013 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4014 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4015
1ab95fa6
PH
4016PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4017 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4018 the message gets confusing).
4019
230205fc
PH
4020PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4021 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4022 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4023 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4024
75e0e026
PH
4025PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4026 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4027 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4028 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4029 same order.
4030
4031PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4032 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4033 the different processes.
4034
145396a6
PH
4035PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4036
3cd34f13
PH
4037PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4038
11121d3d
JJ
4039JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4040 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4041
4042JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4043 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4044
4045JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4046 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4047 messages matching specified criteria.
4048
8def5aaf
PH
4049PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4050
929ba01c
PH
4051PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4052 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4053
2632889e
PH
4054PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4055 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4056 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4057 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4058 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4059 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4060 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4061 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4062 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4063 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4064
944a9c55
PH
4065PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4066 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4067 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4068
4a23603b
PH
4069PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4070
4730f942
PH
4071PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4072 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4073 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4074 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4075 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4076 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4077 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4078 the variable.
4079
30dba1e6
PH
4080PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4081 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4082
382afc6b
PH
4083PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4084
a86229cf
PH
4085PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4086
50c99ba6
PH
4087PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4088
d35e429d
PH
4089PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4090 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4091 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4092 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4093 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4094 size of the count of files.
4095
f90d018c
PH
4096PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4097
75def545
PH
4098PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4099 used in LMTP mode:
4100
4101 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4102 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4103 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4104 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4105
4106 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4107 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4108 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4109
4110PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4111 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4112 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4113 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4114 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4115
c46782ef
PH
4116PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4117 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4118
71fafd95
PH
4119PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4120 will now be deprecated.
4121
2c5db4fd
PH
4122PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4123
9cf6b11a
JJ
4124JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4125 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4126 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4127
4128JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4129 with very large, slow to parse queues
4130
4131JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4132
4133JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4134
898d150f
PH
4135PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4136 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4137 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4138 SMTP output lines.
4139
46218253
PH
4140PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4141 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4142 Sieve code now uses this.
4143
e97957bc
PH
4144PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4145 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4146
81e509d7
PH
4147PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4148 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4149
3d240ff7
PH
4150PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4151
b37c4101
PH
4152PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4153 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4154 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4155 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4156 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4157
79378e0f
PH
4158PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4159 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4160 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4161 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4162
e49c7bb4
PH
4163PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4164
d114ec46
PH
4165PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4166
f3d7df6c
PH
4167PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4168 is preferred over IPv4.
4169
715ab376
PH
4170PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4171 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4172 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4173 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4174 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4175 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4176 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4177
6b31b150
PH
4178PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4179 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4180 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4181
4182PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4183
d515a917
PH
4184PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4185 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4186 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4187 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4188 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4189 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4190 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4191 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4192 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4193 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4194 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4195
9b8fadde
PH
4196PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4197 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4198 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4199
214e2000 4200
5de37277
PH
4201Exim version 4.60
4202-----------------
4203
cc38ddbf
PH
4204PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4205
4206 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4207 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4208
4209 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4210 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4211 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 4212
72fdd6ae
PH
4213PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4214
4215 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4216 not a single digit.
4217
4218 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4219 string.
4220
4221 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4222 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4223 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4224 silly things.
4225
4226 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4227 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4228
4229 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4230 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 4231
cb741023
PH
4232PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4233 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4234 "/bin:/usr/bin".
4235
f174f16e
PH
4236PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4237 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 4238
c25242d7
PH
4239PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4240 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4241
4242 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4243
4244 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4245 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4246 this:
4247
4248 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4249
82c19f95
PH
4250PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4251 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4252 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4253 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4254 identical. For example:
4255
4256 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4257
4258 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4259 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4260 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4261
d7ffbc12
PH
4262PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4263 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4264 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4265 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4266
9f526266
PH
4267PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4268 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4269 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4270 message.
4271
87fcc8b9
PH
4272PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4273
4274 o fixes some comments
4275 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4276 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4277 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4278 and documents the missing references header update
4279
4280 and most important:
4281
4282 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 4283 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
4284 result)
4285
456682f5
PH
4286PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4287 Electronic Mail") by including:
4288
4289 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4290
4291 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 4292 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
4293 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4294 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4295 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4296
4297 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4298
4299 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4300
4301 The auto-replied keyword:
4302
4303 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4304 message by an automatic process,
4305
4306 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4307
4308 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4309 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4310
4311 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4312 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4313 other messages.
4314
3e46c1aa
PH
4315PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4316 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 4317
49826d12
PH
4318PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4319
eba0c039
PH
4320PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4321 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4322 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4323
a0d6ba8a
PH
4324PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4325 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4326 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4327
f0917727
PH
4328PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4329 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4330 and treats the condition as false.
4331
096fee00
PH
4332PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4333
024bd3c2
PH
4334PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4335 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4336 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4337 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4338 not changing the active code.
4339
4340 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4341 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4342
4343 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4344 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4345
df199fec
PH
4346PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4347 (Bugzilla #53).
4348
d27f1df3
PH
4349PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4350 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4351 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4352 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4353 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4354 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4355 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4356 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4357 the text comparison.
4358
96776534
PH
4359PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4360 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4361 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4362 The same fix has been applied.
4363
5de37277 4364
9a799bc0
PH
4365Exim version 4.54
4366-----------------
4367
4368PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4369 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4370 It now does.
4371
99a4b039
PH
4372PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4373 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4374
4375PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4376
4b233853
PH
4377PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4378 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4379 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4380 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4381 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4382
8857ccfd
PH
4383TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4384 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4385 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4386 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4387 or /domain=).
4388
433a2980
PH
4389PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4390 testing suite.
4391
3e46c1aa 4392
9a799bc0 4393
e3a311ba
TK
4394Exim version 4.53
4395-----------------
4396
4397TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4398 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4399
13b685f9
PH
4400PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4401
395ff96d
PH
4402PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4403
5b68f6e4
PH
4404PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4405 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4406 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4407
1ab52c69
PH
4408PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4409 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4410 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4411
b07e6aa3
PH
4412PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4413 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4414 operating systems.
4415
254e032f
PH
4416PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4417 ${stat: expansion item.
4418
3af76a81
PH
4419PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4420 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4421
2548ba04
PH
4422PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4423 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4424 file for comments.
4425
b6c6011d
PH
4426PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4427
cf39cf57
PH
4428PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4429 setting.
4430
f1513293
PH
4431PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4432 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4433
727549a4
PH
4434TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4435
af46795e
PH
4436PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4437 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4438 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4439 the end of the subprocess.
4440
d7b47fd0
PH
4441PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4442 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4443 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4444 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4445 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4446
ee744174
JJ
4447JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4448
b582ab87
PH
4449TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4450
41a13e0a
PH
4451PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4452 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4453
f625cc5a
PH
4454PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4455
4456PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4457
21f7af35
PH
4458PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4459 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4460 HP-UX compiler.
4461
31480e42
PH
4462PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4463
2d280592
PH
4464PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4465 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4466 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4467
7cd1141b
PH
4468PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4469 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4470
4471PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4472 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4473
750af86e
PH
4474PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4475 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4476
4477 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4478 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4479
4480 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4481 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4482 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4483 contributed by a Radius user.
4484
4485PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4486 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4487
4304270b
TK
4488TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4489 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4490
750af86e
PH
4491PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4492 available.
4493
64ffc24f
PH
4494PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4495 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4496 received.
4497
5dd9625b
PH
4498PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4499 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4500 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4501 header lines when this was not necessary.
4502
5591031b
PH
4503PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4504
ba18e66a
PH
4505PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4506 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4507 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4508 exists".
4509
9cec981f
PH
4510PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4511 -bV or -d is used.
4512
aa2b5c79
PH
4513PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4514 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
4515 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4516 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 4517
48a53b7f
PH
4518PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4519
1c59d63b
PH
4520PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4521
671012da
TK
4522TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4523
1509d3a8
PH
4524PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4525
4526PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4527 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4528 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4529 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4530 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4531 settings.
4532
4533PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4534
2fe1a124
PH
4535PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4536 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4537 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4538 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4539 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4540 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4541 which is clearly wrong.
4542
8800895a
PH
4543PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4544
ccfdb010
PH
4545PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4546 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4547 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4548 subsequently added.
4549
1130bfb0
PH
4550PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4551 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4552
ebcb507f
PH
4553PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4554
c35e155c
PH
4555PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4556 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4557
95d1f782
PH
4558PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4559 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4560
fd6de02e
PH
4561PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4562 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4563
58de37c5
PH
4564PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4565 recipients, not senders.
4566
261cf466
TF
4567TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4568 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4569
3ee512ff
PH
4570PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4571
e08c430f
PH
4572PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4573
bef5a11f
PH
4574PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4575 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4576 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4577 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4578
7546de58
TF
4579TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4580
e5d5a95f
TF
4581TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4582 clock is set back in time.
4583
2e88a017
TF
4584TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4585 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4586
a5f65aa4
TF
4587TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4588 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4589
e7726cbf
PH
4590PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4591 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4592 (see PH/47 above).
4593
a7fdad5b
TF
4594TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4595 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4596 header rewrites.
4597
6af56900
PH
4598PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4599 type ("H").
4600
0925ede6
PH
4601PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4602
66afa403
TF
4603TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4604 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4605 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4606
0154e85a
TF
4607TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4608 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4609 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4610 helo verification defer as a failure.
4611
16f12c76
PH
4612PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4613 actual error message.
4614
bbe902f0 4615
e5a9dba6
PH
4616Exim version 4.52
4617-----------------
4618
4619TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4620
22c3b60b
PH
4621PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4622 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4623 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4624 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4625
06a9b4b5
PH
4626TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4627
c1ac6996
PH
4628PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4629 can still be requested.
4630
9c7a242c
PH
4631PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4632 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4633 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4634 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4635
87ba3f5f
PH
4636TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4637 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4638 circumstances, but probably never did.
4639
4640PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4641 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4642 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4643 in the header line.
4644
29aba418
TF
4645TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4646
fe0dab11
TF
4647TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4648 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4649
11d337a4
TK
4650TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4651
4652TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4653
415c8f3b
PH
4654PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4655 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4656 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4657 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4658 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4659 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4660
958541e9
PH
4661PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4662 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4663 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4664 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4665 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4666 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4667
c206415f
TK
4668TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4669 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4670
2a4be8f9
PH
4671PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4672 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4673
1cba11c5
SC
4674SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4675 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4676
4c04137d 4677SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4678
4679SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4680
4681SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4682
4683SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4684
4685SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4686
4687SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4688
1005d00e
TK
4689TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4690
4691TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4692 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4693 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4694
4695TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4696 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4697 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4698 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4699
9b4768fa
PH
4700PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4701 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4702 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4703
4704PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4705 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4706 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4707 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4708
0d7eb84a
PH
4709PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4710 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4711 to be made).
4712
4713PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4714 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4715 should work with maildirs and everything.
4716
40727bee
TK
4717TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4718 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4719
554d2369
TF
4720TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4721 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4722
1f922db1
PH
4723PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4724 function for BDB 4.3.
4725
ef213c3b
PH
4726PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4727
8ac170f3
PH
4728PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4729 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4730 involved.
4731
b1c749bb
PH
4732PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4733 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4734 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4735 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4736 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4737 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4738
4aac9b49
PH
4739PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4740 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4741 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4742 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4743 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4744 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4745 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4746 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4747
294520c8
TK
4748TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4749 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4750 details.
4751
5bd022fe
PH
4752PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4753 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4754
90e9ce59
PH
4755PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4756 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4757 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4758 test. It is now used for both.
4759
5ea81592
PH
4760PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4761 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4762 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4763 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4764 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4765 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4766
c6c2dc1d
PH
4767PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4768 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4769 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4770 string_vformat().
4771
fffffe4c
PH
4772PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4773 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4774 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4775
9a26b6b2
PH
4776PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4777 experimental DomainKeys support:
4778
4779 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4780 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4781 the control was given.
4782
4783 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4784
4aee0225
PH
4785PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4786
32d668a5
PH
4787PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4788
8187c3f3
PH
4789PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4790 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4791 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4792 db.h files).
4793
ff790e47 4794PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4795 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4796 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4797 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4798 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4799 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4800 course.
ff790e47 4801
5417f6d1
PH
4802PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4803 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4804 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4805 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4806 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4807 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4808
59cf8544
PH
4809PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4810 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4811 do -d+all out of habit.
4812
e7ad8a65
PH
4813PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4814 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4815 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4816
ade42478
PH
4817PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4818 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4819 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4820 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4821 record types that Exim uses.
4822
182ad5cf
PH
4823PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4824 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4825 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4826 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4827 non-existent file that was broken.
4828
b0d9fc80
TK
4829TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4830 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4831
4832TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4833 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4834 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4835
4836TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4837
47c7a64a
PH
4838PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4839 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4840 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4841 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4842 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4843 same time.
4844
a388bce4
SC
4845SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4846 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4847 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4848 at a slight CPU cost.
4849
4850SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4851 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4852
4853SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4854 by Marc Sherman.
4855
0793e4ed
SC
4856SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4857
c58b88df
PH
4858PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4859 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4860
e7ad8a65 4861
7982096b
PH
4862Exim version 4.51
4863-----------------
4864
1a46a8c5
PH
4865TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4866 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4867
2f079f46 4868TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4869
4870TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4871
4872PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4873 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4874
4875PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4876 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4877 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4878 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4879 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4880 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4881 file.
4882
4883PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4884 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4885 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4886 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4887 these two options.
4888
4889PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4890 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4891 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4892 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4893 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4894 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4895 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4896 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4897
4898PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4899 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4900
4901PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4902 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4903 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4904 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4905 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4906 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4907
4908PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4909 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4910 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4911 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4912
4913PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4914 Finch).
4915
4916PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4917 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4918
49c2d5ea
PH
4919PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4920 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4921 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4922 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4923 message.
49c2d5ea 4924
bf759a8b
PH
4925PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4926
83364d30
PH
4927PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4928 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4929
7999bbd7
PH
4930PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4931 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4932 to what was transported.)
4933
7dbf77c9
PH
4934TF/01 Added $received_time.
4935
74e0617f
PH
4936PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4937 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4938 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4939 spamd_address settings.
4940
2f079f46
PH
4941PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4942 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4943 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4944 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4945 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4946
8c841523
PH
4947PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4948
7766a4f0
PH
4949PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4950 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4951 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4952 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4953 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4954
8b417f2c
PH
4955PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4956 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4957
901f42cb
PH
4958PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4959 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4960 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4961 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4962 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4963 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4964 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4965 for failure.
4966
f9b9210e
PH
4967PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4968 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4969 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4970 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4971 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4972 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4973 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4974 "input=".
4975
54cdb463
PH
4976PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4977
cf00dad6
PH
4978PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4979 driver and ACL definitions.
4980
acb1b346
PH
4981PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4982 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4983
c5ddb310
PH
4984PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4985 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4986 understands it better than I do:
4987
4988 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4989 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4990
4991 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4992 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4993 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4994 => three warnings about OTP not working
4995 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4996
4997 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4998 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4999 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5000 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5001 for each call.)
5002 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5003 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5004
5005 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5006 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5007 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5008
31619da6
PH
5009PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5010 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5011 specified.
5012
bebaf0fc
PH
5013PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5014 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5015 "Linux".
5016
475fe28a
PH
5017PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5018 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5019 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5020
5021 warn !verify = sender
5022 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5023
5024 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5025 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5026
7e8bec7a
PH
5027PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5028
5029 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5030 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5031
5032 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5033 nomenclature these days.)
5034
e4a89c47
PH
5035PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5036 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5037
5ca2a9a1
PH
5038PH/30 In these circumstances:
5039 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5040 . First host does not offer TLS;
5041 . First host accepts first address;
5042 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5043 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5044 . Second host accepts second address.
5045 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5046 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5047 address.
7e8bec7a 5048
c688b954
PH
5049PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5050 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5051 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5052 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5053 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5054
fed77020
PH
5055PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5056 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5057
7fe1560f
PH
5058PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5059 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 5060
ebb6e6d5
PH
5061PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5062 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5063 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5064
9c4e8f60
PH
5065PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5066 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5067 overlooked.
5068
5069PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5070
d7174846
PH
5071PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5072 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5073 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5074 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5075 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5076 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5077 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5078
5079 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5080 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5081 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5082 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5083 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5084
5085 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5086 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5087 routed further.
5088
cfe75fc3
PH
5089PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5090 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5091 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5092 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5093 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5094 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5095
be22d70e
PH
5096PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5097
0612b098
PH
5098PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5099 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5100 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5101 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5102 printable escape sequences.
5103
2e0c1448
PH
5104PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5105 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5106 body only.
5107
447d236c
PH
5108PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5109 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5110 are as follows:
5111
5112 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5113 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5114 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5115 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5116 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5117
5118 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5119 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5120 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5121
d20976dc
PH
5122PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5123
f656d135
PH
5124PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5125 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5126 play with."
5127
2e2a30b4
PH
5128PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5129 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5130 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5131 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5132 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5133 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5134 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5135 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5136 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5137 the log output.
5138
9176e9f0
PH
5139PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5140 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5141 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5142 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5143 "make".
5144
7982096b 5145
bbe902f0
PH
5146A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5147----------------------------------------
5148
5149Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5150changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5151needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5152in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5153that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5154release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5155from 4.43.
5156
5157I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
51584.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5159those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5160historical information.
5161
5162
f7b63901 5163Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
5164-----------------
5165
5fe762f6
PH
5166 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5167
139059f6 5168 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 5169 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 5170
7086e875
PH
5171 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5172 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5173 place.
5174
35af9f61
PH
5175 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5176 filter fails to execute.
5177
b668c215
PH
5178 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5179 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5180 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5181 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5182 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5183
a494b1e1
PH
5184 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5185
5186 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5187 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5188 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5189 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 5190
c5fcb476
PH
5191 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5192 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5193 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5194 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5195 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5196
69358f02
PH
5197 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5198
5be20824
PH
519910. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5200
eb2c0248
PH
520111. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5202 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5203 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5204 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5205
2a3eea10
PH
520612. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5207 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5208 sender verification.
5209
521013. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5211 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5212
23c7ff99
PH
521314. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5214
4deaf07d
PH
521515. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5216 connection timeout.
5217
926e1192
PH
521816. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5219 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5220
650edc6f
PH
522117. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5222 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5223
2c7db3f5
PH
522418. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5225 information about exactly what failed.
5226
3d235903
PH
522719. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5228
7c7ad977
PH
522920. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5230 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5231 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5232
981756db
PH
523321. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5234 It is now set to "smtps".
5235
d4eb88df
PH
523622. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5237 ignore_target_hosts.
5238
523923. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5240 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5241 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5242 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5243 "[x.x.x.x]".
5244
7d468ab8
PH
524524. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5246 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5247 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5248
524925. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5250 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5251 wake it up if nothing else does.
5252
62c0818f
PH
525326. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5254 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5255 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5256 end up negative.
5257
26034054
PH
525827. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5259 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5260
af66f652
PH
526128. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5262
90af77f4
PH
526329. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5264 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5265 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5266 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5267 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5268 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5269 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5270 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5271
d8ef3577
PH
527230. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5273 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5274 than one IP address.
5275
5cb8cbc6
PH
527631. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5277 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5278 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5279 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5280
14702f5b
PH
528132. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5282 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5283 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5284 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5285 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5286 1024 to 2048 bytes.
5287
063b1e99
PH
528833. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5289 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5290 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5291 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5292
652e1b65
PH
529334. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5294 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5295 respected.
5296
6f0c9a4f
PH
529735. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5298 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5299 $sender_host_address.
5300
33397d19
PH
530136. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5302 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5303 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5304 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5305 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5306 very small.
5307
7bb56e1f
PH
530837. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5309
5310 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5311 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5312
ea3bc19b
PH
5313 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5314 just the host names, not the priorities.
5315
5316 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
5317 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5318 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 5319
ea3bc19b 5320 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 5321 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 5322
0bcb2a0e
PH
532338. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5324 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5325 domain.
5326
2ac0e484
PH
532739. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5328
4e1fde53
PH
532940. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5330 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5331
de365ded
PH
533241. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5333 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5334 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5335
f05da2e8
PH
533642. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5337
d6453af2
PH
533843. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5339
f7b63901
PH
534044. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5341
534245. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5343 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5344 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5345 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5346 because the tests only now provoked it.
5347
a444213a
PH
534846. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5349 (this can affect the format of dates).
5350
0ec020ea
PH
535147. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5352 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5353 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5354 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5355
b1206957
PH
535648. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5357
535849. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5359 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5360 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5361 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5362
26dd5a95
PH
536350. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5364 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5365 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5366
343b2385
PH
536751. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5368 autoreply.
5369
1c5466b9
PH
537052. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5371 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5372 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5373 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5374 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5375 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5376 is going on).
5377
55ee9ee3
PH
537853. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5379 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5380 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5381 the line.
5382
d38f8232
PH
538354. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5384 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5385 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5386
5387 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5388 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5389 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5390 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5391 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5392 so I produce this patch..."
5393
3295e65b
PH
5394 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5395 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5396 is not defined.
5397
7102e136
PH
539855. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5399 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
5400 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5401 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 5402 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 5403
3ca0ba97
PH
540456. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5405
c2bcbe20
PH
540657. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5407 long debug lines gets shown.
5408
18ce445d
PH
540958. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5410 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5411
1f5b4c3d
PH
541259. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5413
5414 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5415 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5416 of $primary_hostname.
5417
b975ba52
PH
541860. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5419 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5420 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5421 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
5422 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5423 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5424 by change 4.50/55 above.
5425
5426 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5427 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5428 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5429 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5430 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5431 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 5432 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
5433
543461. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5435 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5436 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 5437 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 5438
17ffcae7
PH
543962. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5440 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5441
d95f9fdb
PH
544263. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5443 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5444 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5445 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5446 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5447
86b8287f
PH
544864. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5449 This has been fixed.
5450
60dc5e56
PH
545165. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5452 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5453 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5454 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5455 the caching.)
5456
533244af
PH
545766. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5458
a5a28604
PH
545967. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5460 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5461 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5462 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5463
7e634d24
PH
546468. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5465 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5466
3e11c26b
PH
546769. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5468 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5469 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5470
6729cf78
PH
547170. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5472 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5473 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5474 message there.
5475
00f00ca5
PH
547671. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5477 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5478 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5479
c9bdd01c
PH
548072. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5481 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5482 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5483 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5484
d43194df
PH
548573. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5486 during host lookups.
5487
fe5b5d0b
PH
548874. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5489 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5490
5491 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5492
76a2d7ba
PH
549375. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5494 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5495 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5496 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5497 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5498 background.
5499
550076. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5501 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5502
04f7d5b9
PH
550377. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5504 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5505 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5506
bc60667e
PH
550778. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5508
bb6e88ff
PH
550979. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5510 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5511 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5512 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5513 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5514 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5515 process earlier.
5516
1e70f85b
PH
551780. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5518 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5519 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5520 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5521 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5522
552381. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5524 tables).
5525
4e01f9d6
PH
552682. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5527
1ee1cef2
PH
552883. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5529 "vacation" handling.
5530
6e2b4ccc
PH
553184. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5532 OS variants using glibc.
5533
8e669ac1
PH
553485. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5535
495ae4b0 5536
bbe902f0
PH
5537----------------------------------------------------
5538See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5539----------------------------------------------------
5540
5541
5542Exim version 4.44
5543-----------------
5544
5545 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5546 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5547 transport
5548
5549 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5550 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5551 place.
5552
5553 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5554 filter fails to execute.
5555
5556 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5557 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5558 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5559 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5560 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5561
5562 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5563 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5564 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5565 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5566
5567 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5568 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5569 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5570 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5571 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5572
5573 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5574
5575 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5576 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5577 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5578 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5579
5580 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5581 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5582 sender verification.
5583
558410. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5585 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5586
558711. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5588 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5589
559012. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5591 ignore_target_hosts.
5592
559313. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5594 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5595 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5596 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5597 "[x.x.x.x]".
5598
559914. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5600 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5601 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5602
560315. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5604 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5605 wake it up if nothing else does.
5606
560716. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5608 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5609 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5610 end up negative.
5611
561217. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5613 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5614
ea3a6f44 561518. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
5616
561719. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5618 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5619 empty pattern.
5620
562120. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5622 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5623 one IP address.
5624
ea3a6f44
NM
562521. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5626 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5627 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5628 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5629 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5630 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 5631
ea3a6f44
NM
563222. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5633 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5634 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
5635
563623. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5637 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5638 $sender_host_address.
5639
564024. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5641
ea3a6f44
NM
564225. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5643 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5644 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5645
564626. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5647 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5648
ea3a6f44
NM
564927. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5650 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5651
ea3a6f44
NM
565228. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5653 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5654 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5655 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5656
565729. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5658 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5659 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5660
ea3a6f44
NM
566130. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5662 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5663 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5664 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5665
ea3a6f44
NM
566631. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5667 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5668 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5669
ea3a6f44
NM
567031. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5671 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5672
ea3a6f44
NM
567332. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5674 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5675 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5676 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5677 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5678 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5679 is going on).
bbe902f0 5680
ea3a6f44
NM
568133. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5682 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5683 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5684 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5685 CAN-2005-0021
5686
ea3a6f44
NM
568734. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5688 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5689 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5690 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5691 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5692 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5693 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5694
5695 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5696 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5697 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5698 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5699 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5700 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5701 CAN-2005-0021
5702
ea3a6f44
NM
570335. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5704 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5705 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5706 CAN-2005-0022
5707
ea3a6f44
NM
570836. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5709 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5710 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5711 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5712 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5713
ea3a6f44
NM
571437. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5715 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5716 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5717 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5718 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5719
ea3a6f44
NM
572038. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5721 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5722 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5723 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5724 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5725
5726
495ae4b0
PH
5727Exim version 4.43
5728-----------------
5729
5730 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5731 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5732 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5733 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5734 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5735 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5736 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5737
5738 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5739 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5740 the delivery.
5741
5742 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5743
5744 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5745
5746 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5747 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5748 to local_scan().
5749
5750 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5751 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5752 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5753 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5754 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5755
5756 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5757 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5758
5759 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5760
5761 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5762
576310. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5764 header_sender only.
5765
576611. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5767 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5768
576912. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5770 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5771 affecting debugging statements).
5772
577313. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5774
577514. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5776 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5777 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5778 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5779 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5780 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5781 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5782 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5783 after the received time, and all would be well.
5784
578515. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5786 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5787 condition in an expansion string.
5788
578916. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5790
579117. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5792 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5793 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5794 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5795 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5796 job under whatever limits there are.
5797
579818. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5799
580019. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5801 space).
5802
580320. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5804 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5805 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5806 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5807 return path is set.
5808
580921. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5810 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5811 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5812 binary data in such strings.
5813
581422. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5815
581623. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5817 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5818 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5819 failure, which is pointless.
5820
582124. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5822
582325. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5824
582526. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5826 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5827 Sender: header lines.
5828
582927. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5830 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5831 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5832
583328. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5834 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5835 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5836 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5837 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5838 happens.
5839
584029. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5841 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5842 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5843 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5844 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5845
584630. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5847 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5848 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5849 1024.
5850
585131. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5852 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5853
585432. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5855 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5856
585733. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5858
585932. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5860
586133. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5862
586334. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5864 syntax error.
5865
586635. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5867
586836. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5869
587037. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5871 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5872 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5873 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5874
587538. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5876 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5877
5878
5879Exim version 4.42
5880-----------------
5881
5882 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5883 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5884 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5885 it was not quoted.
5886 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5887 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5888 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5889 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5890 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5891 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5892
5893 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5894 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5895 verification failure".
5896
5897 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5898 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5899 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5900 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5901
5902 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5903 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5904 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5905 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5906 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5907 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5908 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5909 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5910 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5911 treated as a timeout.
5912
5913 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5914 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5915 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5916 not set for Exim filters).
5917
5918 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5919 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5920 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5921
5922 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5923
5924 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5925 try to make them clearer.
5926
5927 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5928 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5929
5930 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5931
5932 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5933
593410. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5935 only the Cygwin environment.
5936
593711. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5938 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5939 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5940 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5941 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5942
594312. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5944 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5945 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5946 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5947 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5948 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5949 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5950
595113. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5952 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5953
595414. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5955
5956 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5957 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5958 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5959
5960 To: susanne@some.where
5961
5962 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5963 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5964 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5965 of addresses in From: header lines).
5966
5967 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5968 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5969 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5970
5971 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5972 treated as non-personal.
5973
5974 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5975 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5976
597715. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5978
597916. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5980
598117. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5982 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5983 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5984
598518. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5986 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5987
598819. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5989 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5990 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5991 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5992 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5993 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5994
599520. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5996 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5997 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5998 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5999 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6000 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6001 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6002 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6003
6004 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6005
600621. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6007 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6008
600922. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6010 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6011 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6012
601323. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6014 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6015
601624. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6017 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6018 rather than long int.
6019
602025. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6021
602226. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6023
6024
6025Exim version 4.41
6026-----------------
6027
6028 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6029 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6030 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6031 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6032 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6033 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6034
6035
6036Exim version 4.40
6037-----------------
6038
6039 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6040 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6041
6042 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6043 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6044 socklen_t is defined.
6045
6046 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6047 always exist.
6048
6049 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6050 configured.
6051
6052 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6053 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6054 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6055 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6056 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6057
6058 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6059 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6060 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6061 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6062
6063 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6064 of flapping under certain conditions.
6065
6066 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6067 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6068 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6069
6070 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6071
607210. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6073
607411. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6075 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6076 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6077 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6078
607912. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6080 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6081 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6082 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6083 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6084 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6085 preserved with the message after it was received.
6086
608713. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6088 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6089 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6090 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6091 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6092 test suite worked just fine.
6093
609414. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6095 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6096 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6097
609815. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6099 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6100 string.
6101
610216. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6103 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6104 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6105 does not fully solve it.
6106
610717. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6108 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6109 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6110 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6111 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6112
611318. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6114 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6115 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6116
611719. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6118 string, for example:
6119
6120 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6121
6122 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6123 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6124 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6125 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6126 the routers could not see them.
6127
612820. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6129 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6130
613121. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6132 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6133 output).
6134
613522. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6136 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6137 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6138 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6139 that needed quoting.
6140
614123. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6142 was not being matched caselessly.
6143
614424. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6145 backslashes.
6146
614725. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6148 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6149 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6150 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6151 when use_sender is false.
6152
615326. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6154
615527. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6156
615728. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6158
615929. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6160 the configuration file.
6161
616230. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6163 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6164
616531. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6166
616732. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6168 bytes in the message body.
6169
617033. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6171 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6172 delivery.
6173
617434. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6175
617635. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6177
617836. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6179 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6180 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6181 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6182 another IP address.
6183
6184
6185Exim version 4.34
6186-----------------
6187
6188 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6189 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6190
6191 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6192 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6193 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6194 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6195 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6196
6197 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6198 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6199
6200 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6201 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6202 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6203
6204 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6205 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6206 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6207
6208 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6209 for routers.
6210
6211 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6212 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6213 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6214 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6215 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6216 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6217 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6218
6219
6220Exim version 4.33
6221-----------------
6222
6223 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6224 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6225 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6226 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6227 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6228 default (and expected) setting.
6229
6230 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6231 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6232 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6233 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6234
6235 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6236 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6237
6238 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6239 in domain lists.
6240
6241 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6242 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6243 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6244 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6245 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6246 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6247
6248 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6249 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6250 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6251
6252 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6253 part (NOT match_host).
6254
6255 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6256
6257 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6258 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6259 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6260 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6261 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6262 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6263 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6264 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6265 the same named file.
6266
626710. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6268 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6269 when Exim is built.
6270
627111. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6272 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6273 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6274 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6275 a host name.
6276
627712. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6278 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6279 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6280
628113. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6282
628314. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6284
628515. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6286
628716. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6288 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6289
629017. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6291 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6292 before starting the TLS session.
6293
629418. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6295
629619. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6297 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6298
629920. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6300 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6301 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6302 colon in the middle).
6303
6304
6305Exim version 4.32
6306-----------------
6307
6308 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6309 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6310 multiple configurations are in use.
6311
6312 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6313 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6314 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6315 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6316 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6317 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6318
6319 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6320 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6321
6322 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6323 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6324 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6325
6326 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6327 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6328 occurs.
6329
6330 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6331 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6332
6333 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6334
6335 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6336 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6337
6338 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6339
6340 -prval:sval
6341
6342 is equivalent to
6343
6344 -oMr rval -oMs sval
6345
6346 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6347 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6348 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6349 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6350 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6351
635210. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6353 Exim's behaviour:
6354
6355 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6356 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6357 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6358 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6359 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6360 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6361
6362 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6363 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6364 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6365 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6366 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6367 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6368 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6369 string.
6370
6371 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6372 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6373 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6374 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6375 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6376
637711. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6378
637912. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6380 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6381 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6382
638313. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6384
638514. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6386 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6387 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6388 information.
6389
639015. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6391 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6392
639316. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6394 Three changes have been made:
6395
6396 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6397 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6398 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6399 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6400 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6401
6402 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6403 been restored.
6404
6405 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6406 the modified behaviour.
6407
6408
6409Exim version 4.31
6410-----------------
6411
6412 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6413 Larry Rosenman.
6414
6415 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6416 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6417
6418 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6419 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6420 try to track down a specific problem.
6421
6422 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6423 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6424 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6425
6426 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6427 warning.
6428
6429 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6430 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6431 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6432 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6433 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6434 some earlier ones do not.
6435
6436 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6437
6438 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6439 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6440 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6441 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6442 address literals are enabled, of course).
6443
6444 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6445
644610. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6447 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6448 by a command such as
6449
6450 exim -f "" ...
6451
6452 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6453
645411. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6455
645612. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6457 remained set. It is now erased.
6458
645913. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6460 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6461
646214. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6463 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6464 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6465 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6466 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6467 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6468 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6469 appropriate error code.
6470
647115. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6472 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6473 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6474 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6475 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6476 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6477
647816. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6479 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6480 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6481
648217. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6483 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6484 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6485 terminate the header.
6486
648718. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6488 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6489 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6490
649119. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6492 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6493 (4.30/29). In particular:
6494
6495 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6496 imposed.
6497
6498 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6499 to write a maildirsize file.
6500
6501 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6502 the transport, the new value overrides.
6503
6504 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6505 count.
6506
650720. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6508 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6509 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6510 space or a tab.
6511
651221. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6513 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6514 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6515 the fallback hosts.
6516
651722. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6518 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6519 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6520
652123. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6522 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6523 using a union.
6524
652524. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6526 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6527 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6528
652925. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6530
653126. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6532
653327. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6534
653528. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6536 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6537 become corrupted.
6538
653929. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6540 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6541 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6542 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6543 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6544 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6545 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6546 too great.
6547
654830. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6549 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6550 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6551 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6552 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6553 incorrectly.
6554
655531. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6556 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6557 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6558 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6559 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6560 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6561 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6562 cached value only when the same options are set.
6563
656432. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6565
656633. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6567 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6568 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6569 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6570 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6571
657234: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6573 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6574 it is clearly obsolete.
6575
657635. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6577 transport.
6578
657936. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6580 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6581 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6582 times.
6583
658437. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6585 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6586 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6587 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6588 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6589
659038. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6591 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6592 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6593 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6594
659539. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6596
6597 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6598
6599 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6600 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6601 2^31.
6602
660340. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6604 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6605 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6606 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6607 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6608 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6609 $localpart_data.
6610
661141. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6612 with the -f command-line option.
6613
661442. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6615 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6616 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6617 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6618 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6619 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6620
662143. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6622 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6623 line.
6624
662544. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6626 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6627 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6628 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6629 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6630 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6631 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6632 buffer is too small.
6633
663445. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6635 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6636
663746. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6638 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6639 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6640 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6641 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6642 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6643 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6644 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6645 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6646
664747. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6648 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6649 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6650
665148. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6652 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6653 ACL").
6654
665549. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6656 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6657 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6658 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6659 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6660
666150. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6662 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6663 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6664 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6665 is set.
6666
666751. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6668
666952. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6670
667153. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6672 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6673
667454. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6675 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6676 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6677
667855. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6679 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6680 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6681 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6682 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6683
668456. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6685 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6686 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6687 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6688 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6689 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6690 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6691
669257. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6693 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6694 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6695 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6696 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6697 the test of how many are available.
6698
669958. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6700 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6701 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6702 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
495ae4b0
PH
6703 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6704 new message is started.
6705
670659. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6707 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6708
670960. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6710 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6711
671261. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6713 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6714 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6715 is no long logged.
6716
671762. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6718 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6719 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6720 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6721 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6722 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6723 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6724
672563. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6726 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6727 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6728 interpreted as octal.
6729
673064. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6731 setting.
6732
673365. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6734 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6735 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6736 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6737 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6738 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6739
674066. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6741 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6742 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6743 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6744
6745 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6746 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6747 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6748 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6749
6750 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6751 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6752 is a bug fix.
6753
6754 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6755 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6756
675767. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6758
675968. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6760 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6761 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6762 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6763
676469. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6765 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6766 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6767 supplied", which is not helpful.
6768
676970. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6770 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6771 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6772
677371. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6774 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6775 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6776 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6777 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6778 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6779 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6780 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6781
678272. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6783 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6784 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6785 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6786 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6787
678873. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6789 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6790 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6791 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6792 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6793 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6794
679574. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6796 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6797 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6798
679975. Added write_rejectlog option.
6800
680176. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6802 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6803 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6804 variables.
6805
680677. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6807
680878. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6809 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6810 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6811 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6812 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6813 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6814 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6815 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6816
681779. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6818 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6819 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6820 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6821 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6822
682380. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6824 Haardt.
6825
682681. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6827 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6828 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6829 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6830 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6831 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6832 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6833 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6834 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6835
6836
6837Exim version 4.30
6838-----------------
6839
6840 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6841 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6842 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6843
6844 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6845 fixed.
6846
6847 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6848 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6849 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6850
6851 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6852 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6853 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6854 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6855 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6856 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6858 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6859 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6860 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6861 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6862 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6863 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6864 the Exim test suite.
6865
6866 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6867 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6868 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6869 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6870
6871 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6872 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6873 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6874 specify it in this variable.
6875
6876 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6877 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6878 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6879 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6880
6881 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6882 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6883 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6884 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6885
6886 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6887 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6888 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6889 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6890 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6891
6892 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6893
689410. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6895 they are logged.
6896
689711. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6898 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6899 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6900 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6901 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6902
690312. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6904 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6905
690613. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6907 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6908 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6909 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6910 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6911
691214. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6913 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6914
691515. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6916 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6917 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6918
691916. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6920 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6921
692217. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6923 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6924
692518. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6926 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6927 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6928
692919. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6930 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6931
693220. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6933 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6934 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6935 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6936
693721. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6938
693922. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6940 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6941 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6942 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6943
694423. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6945
694624. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6947 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6948
694925. Added .include_if_exists.
6950
695126. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6952 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6953 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6954 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6955 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6956 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6957
695827. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6959
696028. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6961 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6962 this.
6963
696429. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6965
696630. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6967 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6968
6969 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6970 550 Sender verify failed
6971
6972 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6973 the final line of the response.
6974
697531. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6976 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6977 all other user lookups.
6978
697932. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6980 delivery time.
6981
698233. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6983 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6984 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6985 result into an int without checking.
6986
698734. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6988 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6989 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6990
699135. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6992 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6993 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6994 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6995
699636. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6997 correctly.
6998
699937. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7000 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7001
700238. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7003 to the empty sender.
7004
700539. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7006 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7007 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7008 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7009 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7010 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7011 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7012 panic log.
7013
701440. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7015 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7016 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7017 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7018 used.
7019
702041. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7021 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7022
702342. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7024 timestamps.
7025
702643. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7027 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7028
702944. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7030
703145. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7032 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7033 logs.
7034
703546. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7036 as soon as it is encountered.
7037
703847. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7039
704048. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7041 rewritten to "<>".
7042
704349. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7044 recognizes a tab character.
7045
704650. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7047 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7048 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7049 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7050
705151. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7052
705352. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7054 crash.
7055
705653. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7057
705854. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7059
706055. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7061 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7062 2822.
7063
706456. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7065 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7066 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7067 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7068 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7069
707057. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7071 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7072
707358. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7074 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7075 list (.included file names were always shown).
7076
707759. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7078 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7079 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7080 root at that time.
7081
708260. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7083 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7084
708561. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7086
708762. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7088
708963. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7090
709164. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7092 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7093 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7094 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7095 failures to open the logs.
7096
709765. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7098 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7099 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7100 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7101 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7102 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7103 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7104
7105
7106Exim version 4.24
7107-----------------
7108
7109 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7110 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7111 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7112 change 4.23/1.
7113
7114 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7115 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7116 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7117
7118 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7119 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7120 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7121
7122 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7123 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7124 causing some misleading effects.
7125
7126 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7127 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7128 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7129
7130 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7131 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7132 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7133 queue-runner function directly.
7134
7135
7136Exim version 4.23
7137-----------------
7138
7139 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7140 HEADERS_CHARSET.
7141
7142 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7143 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7144 was always written to the default place.
7145
7146 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7147 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7148 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7149
7150 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7151
7152 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7153
7154 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7155 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7156 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7157
7158 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7159 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7160 must start.
7161
7162 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7163 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7164 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7165
7166 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7167 command line option is disabled.
7168
7169 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7170 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7171
7172 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7173
7174 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7175
7176 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7177 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7178
717910. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7180
718111. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7182 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7183 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7184 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7185 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7186 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7187
718812. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7189 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7190 timeout.
7191
719213. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7193 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7194
719514. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7196 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7197
719815. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7199 received was valid base64.
7200
720116. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7202 name of the variable that was being set.
7203
720417. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7205
720618. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7207 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7208 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7209 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7210 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7211 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7212
721319. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7214
721520. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7216 nor realm was specified.
7217
721821. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7219 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7220 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7221 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7222
722322. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7224 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7225 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7226
722723. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7228 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7229 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7230
723124. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7232 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7233 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7234 some systems use these upper case variants.
7235
723625. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7237 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7238 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7239 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7240
724126. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7242
724327. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7244 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7245
724628. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7247 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7248 expansion variable.
7249
725029. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7251
725230. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7253 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7254 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7255 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7256
725731. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7258 using it.
7259
726032. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7261 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7262 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7263
726433. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7265 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7266
726734. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7268 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7269 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7270 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7271
727235. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7273 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7274 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7275
727636. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7277
727837. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7279 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7280 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7281 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7282 aborted.
7283
728438. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7285 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7286 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7287
728839. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7289
729040. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7291 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7292
729341. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7294 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7295
729642. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7297 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7298 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7299 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7300 when emails are that large.
7301
7302
7303
7304Exim version 4.22
7305-----------------
7306
7307 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7308 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7309
7310 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7311 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7312 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7313
7314 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7315 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7316 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7317
7318 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7319 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7320 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7321 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7322 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7323
7324 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7325 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7326 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7327 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7328 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7329 ever.
7330
7331 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7332 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7333 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7334 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7335 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7336 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7337 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7338 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7339 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7340 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7341 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7342 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7343 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7344 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7345
7346 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7347 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7348 parameterised it.
7349
7350 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7351 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7352 error should be diagnosed.
7353
7354 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7355 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7356 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7357 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7358 appeared instead of "NULL".
7359
736010. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7361 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7362 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7363 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7364 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7365 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7366 proceeds).
7367
7368 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7369 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7370 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7371
7372
7373Exim version 4.21
7374-----------------
7375
7376 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7377 or receiver verification errors.
7378
7379 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7380 name.
7381
7382 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7383 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7384 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7385 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7386
7387 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7388 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7389 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7390 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7391 shouldn't happen again.
7392
7393 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7394 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7395 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7396
7397 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7398 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7399
7400 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7401
7402 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7403 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7404
7405 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7406 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7407 RFC.
7408
740910. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7410 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7411 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7412
741311. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7414 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7415 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7416 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7417
741812. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7419 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7420 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7421 to define what should happen).
7422
742313. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7424 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7425 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7426
742714. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7428
742915. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7430
743116. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7432 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7433
4c04137d 743417. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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7435 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7436 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7437 structure in all cases.
7438
7439 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7440 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7441 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7442 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7443
744418. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7445 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7446 domain name.
7447
744819. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7449 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7450
745120. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7452 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7453
745421. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7455 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7456 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7457
745822. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7459 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7460 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7461
746223. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7463 the book and for uniformity.
7464
746524. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7466
746725. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 7468 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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7469 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7470 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7471 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7472 non-existent command as the problem.
7473
747426. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7475 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7476 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7477
747827. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7479
748028. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7481 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7482 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7483
748429. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7485 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7486 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7487 timestamps using strftime().
7488
748930. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7490 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7491
749232. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7493 transport-time rewrites.
7494
749533. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7496 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7497 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7498 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7499
750034. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7501 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7502
750335. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7504 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7505 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7506 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7507 comma and a space.
7508
750936. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7510 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7511 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7512 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7513 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7514 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7515 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7516
751737. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7518 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7519 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7520 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7521 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7522
752338. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7524 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7525 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7526 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7527 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7528 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7529 remaining text gets split now.
7530
753139. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7532 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7533 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7534 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7535
753640. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7537 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7538 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7539 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7540 $return_path.
7541
754241. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7543 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7544 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7545 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7546 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7547 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7548 passed through if needed.
7549
755042. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7551 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7552 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7553 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7554 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7555 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7556
755743. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7558 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7559 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7560 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7561 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7562
756344. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7564 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7565 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7566 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7567 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7568
756945. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7570 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7571 noticed.
7572
757346. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7574 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7575 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7576 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7577 mayhem of various kinds.
7578
757947. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7580 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 7581 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
495ae4b0
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7582 the right test for positive values.
7583
758448. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7585 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7586 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7587 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7588 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7589 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7590 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7591 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7592 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7593 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7594 envelope.
7595
759649. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7597 module.
7598
759950. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7600 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7601 forbidding it.
7602
760351. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7604 the existing equality matching.
7605
760652. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7607 dealing with inode numbers.
7608
760953. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7610 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7611 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7612
761354. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7614 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7615 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7616 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7617 local_scan().
7618
761955. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7620 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7621 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7622 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7623 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7624 relay addresses has also been removed.
7625
762656. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7627
762857. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7629 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7630 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7631
763258. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7633 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7634 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7635 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7636 processing applies to CR:
7637
7638 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7639 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7640
7641 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7642 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7643 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7644 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7645
764659. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7647 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7648 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7649
765060. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7651 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7652 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7653 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7654 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7655 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7656 arisen.
7657
765861. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7659 program routers.
7660
766162. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7662 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7663 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7664 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7665 adds:
7666
7667 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7668
7669 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7670
7671 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7672
767363. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7674 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7675 not considered personal.
7676
767764. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7678
767965. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7680
768166. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7682
768367. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7684 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7685 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7686 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7687 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7688 header lines, and spool format errors.
7689
769068. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7691 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7692 for more flexibility.
7693
769469. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7695 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7696 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7697
769870. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7699 Sabourenkov.
7700
770171. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7702 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7703 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7704 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7705 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7706 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7707 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7708 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7709 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7710
771172. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7712 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7713 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7714 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7715 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7716 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7717 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7718
771973. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7720 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7721 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7722
772374. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7724 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7725 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7726 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7727 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7728 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7729 instead of killing the process with assert().
7730
773175. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7732 than Unicode encoding.
7733
773476. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7735 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7736 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7737 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7738
773977. Added process_log_path.
7740
774178. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7742 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7743
774479. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7745 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7746
774780. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7748 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7749 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7750
775181. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7752 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7753 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7754 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7755 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7756 were applied:
7757
7758 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7759 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7760 as invalid.
7761
776282. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7763 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7764 they will be used during message reception.
7765
7766
7767Exim version 4.20
7768-----------------
7769
7770The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7771
7772****