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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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8Since Exim version 4.90
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11GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
12 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
13 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
14 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
15 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
16 be defined in redis_servers.
17
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18GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
19 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
20
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21JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
22 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
23 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
24 extant use locations.
25
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26JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
27 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
28
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29JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
30 Previously only the last row was returned.
31
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32JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
33 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
34 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
35 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
36 input.
37
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38JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
39 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
40 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
41 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
42 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
43 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
44 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
45 Main pool for expansions.
46 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
47 active in the testsuite.
48 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
49
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50JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
51 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
52 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
53 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
54 round-robin DNS.
55
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56JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
57 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
58 failure response.
59
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60JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
61 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
62 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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63
64JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
65 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
66 ClamAV interface method is removed.
c11d665d 67
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68JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
69 rows affected is given instead).
70
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71JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
72 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
73
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74JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
75 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
76 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
77 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
78 for all multi-message initiating connections.
79
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80JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
81 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
82 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
83
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84JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
85 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
86 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
87 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
88 separate.
89
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90JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
91 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
92 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
93 fake-reject.
94
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95HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
96
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97JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
98 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
99
aab9a843 100PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 101 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 102 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 103
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104JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
105 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
106 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
107 and send a quit.
108
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109JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
110 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
111
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112JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
113 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
114 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
115
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116JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
117 for the build is renamed.
118
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119JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
120 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
121 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
122
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123JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
124 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
125 result replacing the original.
126
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127JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
128 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
129 and the resources needed to be freed.
130
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131JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
132
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133JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
134 was not propagated.
135
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136JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
137 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
138 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
139 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
140
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141JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
142 length value. Previously this would segfault.
143
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144HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
145 newer versions of the scanner.
146
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147JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
148 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
149 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
150 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
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151 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
152 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
153 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
e04bfa34 154
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155JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
156 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
157 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
158 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
159 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
160 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
161 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
162 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
163 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
164 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
165
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166JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
167 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
168
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169JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
170
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171HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
172 allows proper process termination in container environments.
173
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174JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
175 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
176
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177JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
178 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
179 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
180
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181JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
182 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
183 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
5add7dc4 184 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
857eaf37 185
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186JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
187 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
188 would be spooled.
189
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190PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
191 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
192
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196
197JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
198 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
199 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
200 pairs of long lines into single ones.
201
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202PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
203 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
204
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205JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
206 This permits better logging.
207
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208JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
209 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
210 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
211 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
212 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 213 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 214
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215JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
216 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
217 "exiwhat" output.
218
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219PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
220 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
221 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
222
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223JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
224 than 255 are no longer allowed.
225
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226JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
227 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
228 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
229 client, there is no benefit for these.
230 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
231 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
232 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
233 is used (3.2.4 +).
234
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235PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
236 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
237
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238JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
239 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
240 erroneously found still-pending ones.
241
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242JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
243 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
244
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245JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
246 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
247 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
248 signature and again for transmission.
249
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250JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
251 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 252 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
eeb35890 253
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254JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
255 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
256 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
257 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
258 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
259 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
260 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
261
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262JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
263 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
264 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 265 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
40525d07 266
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267PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
268 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
269 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
270 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
271 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
272 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
273 processing options.
274
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275JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
276 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
277 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
278 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
279 connections.
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281PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
282 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
283 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
284 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
285 versions.
286
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287JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
288 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
289 inaccessible.
290
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291JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
292 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
293 banner-time rejection.
294
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295JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
296 callout/hold.
297
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298PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
299 is the name of a transport.
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300 Fixes bug 2140.
301
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302HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
303
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304JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
305 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
306
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307JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
308 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
309 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
310 during compilation.
311
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312JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
313 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
314 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 315 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
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317JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
318 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
319 initial verify call returned a defer.
320
ad1a76fe 321JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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322 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
323
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324JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
325 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
326
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327JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
328 if present. Previously it was ignored.
329
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330JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
331 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
332
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333JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
334 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
335 extensible.
336
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337PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
338 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
339
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340PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
341 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
342 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
343
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344JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
345 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
346 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
347 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
348
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349HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess where chunked
350 and confused the parent.
351
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352JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
353 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
354
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355JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
356 for log purposes.
357
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358JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
359 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
360 out-of-order delivery.
361
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362JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
363 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
364 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
365 error for the HELO.
366
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367JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
368 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
369 desynchronisation.
370
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371JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
372 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
373 one run was done. Bug 2189.
374
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375JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
376 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
377 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
378 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
379 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
380 message is still "Temporary local problem".
381
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382JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
383 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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384 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
385
386HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
387 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
388 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
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390JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
391 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
392 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
393 though a different problem.
394
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9427e879 399JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 400 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 401
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402JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
403
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404PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
405 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
406
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407JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
408 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
409
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410JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
411 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
412 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
413 before acknowledging the chunk.
414
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415PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
416 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
417 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
418
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419JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
420 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
421 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
422 should.
423
424JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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425 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
426 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
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bd8fbe36 428JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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429 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
430
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431JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
432 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
433 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
434 body hash calculated value.
435
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436JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
437 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
438 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
439
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440JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
441
442JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
443 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
444
445JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
446 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
447 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
448
449JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
450 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
451 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
452 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
453 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
454 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
455
456JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
457 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
458 past that check, despite the cost.
459
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460JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
461 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
462 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
463
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464PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
465 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
466 TLS library to consume.
467
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468PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
469
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470PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
471
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472JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
473 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
474 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
475 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
476 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
477 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
478 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
479
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480PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
481
482PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
483
484PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
485 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
486 should be warning-free.
487
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488JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
489
490HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
491 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
492
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493HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
494 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
495 general solution here.
496
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497PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
498 already-broken messages in the queue.
499
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500JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
501
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502JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
503
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508JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
509 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 510
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511JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
512 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
513 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
514
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515JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
516 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
517 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
518 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
519 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
520 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
521 if one fails this test.
522 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
523 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
524
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525JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
526 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
527
23bb6982 528JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 529 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 530
0bd1b1ed 531JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 532 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 533
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534JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
535 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
536
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537JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
538 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
539
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540JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
541
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542JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
543 certificate).
544
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545JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
546 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
547 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
548 connection after a verify cache hit.
549 Do not update it with the verify result either.
550
551JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
552 when routing results in more than one destination address.
553
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554JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
555 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
556 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
557 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
558 when the cutthrough connection is made).
559
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560JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
561 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
562
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563JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
564 Previously they were not counted.
565
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566JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
567 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
568 that needed the lookup.
569
4c04137d 570JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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571 distinguished as "(=".
572
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573JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
574 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
575
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576JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
577
578JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
579 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 580
4c04137d 581JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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582 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
583
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584JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
585 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
586 compatible.
587
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588JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
589 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
590 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
591 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
592
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593JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
594
f59aaaaa 595JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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596 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
597 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 598
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599JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
600 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
601 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
602 be lost.
603
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604JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
605 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
606 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
607 itself :(
608
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609JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
610 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
611 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
612
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613JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
614 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
615 options.
616
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617JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
618
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619PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
620 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
621
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622PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
623 are not in the system include path.
624
ad7fc6eb 625JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 626 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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627 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
628 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 629
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630JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
631 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
632 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
633
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634JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
635
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636HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
637 an incoming connection.
638
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639HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
640 to rspamd.
641
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642HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
643 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 644
87cb4a16 645JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 646 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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648
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652JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
653 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
654 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
655 client dropping the TLS connection.
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657TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
658 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
659
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660TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
661 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
662 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
663 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
664 outgoing I= field.
665
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666JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
667 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
668 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
669 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
670 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
671 check on the next write.
672
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673HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
674 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
675 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
676 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
677 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
678
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679JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
680 mime_regex ACL conditions.
681
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682JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
683 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
684 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
685
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686JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
687 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
688 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
689 an authenticate fail is not an error.
690
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691HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
692 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
693
4c04137d 694JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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695 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
696
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697JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
698 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
699 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
700 distinct.
701
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702JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
703
704JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
705
ec0eb1a3
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706JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
707
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708JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
709 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
710
98b98887 711JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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712 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
713
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714JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
715
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716JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
717 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
718
719JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
720
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721JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
722 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
723
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724JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
725
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726JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
727 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 728 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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729 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
730 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
731 they will retry in-clear.
732 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
733 at installation time.
734
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735HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
736 with the $config_file variable.
737
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738JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
739 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
740 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
741 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 742 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 743
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744GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
745 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
746 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
747 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
748 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
749
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750JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
751
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752JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
753 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
754 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
755 list order is no longer honoured.
756
4c04137d 757JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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758 for DKIM processing.
759
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760JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
761 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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763JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
764 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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765 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
766 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 767
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768JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
769 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
770
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771JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
772 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
773
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774JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
775 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
776
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777JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
778
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779JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
780 cached by the daemon.
781
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782JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
783 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
784
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785JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
786 keys are given for lookup.
787
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788JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
789 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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790 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
791 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
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793JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
794 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
795 server-side so match that on older versions.
796
07c73177 797JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 798 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 799 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 800
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801JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
802 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
803
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804JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
805 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
806 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 807 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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808 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
809 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
810 initial truncated version.
811
ab9152ff 812JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 813
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814JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
815
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816JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
817 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
818
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819JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
820
bc3c7bb7 821HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 822
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823JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
824 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
825 induced overflows.
826
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827JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
828 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
829 stage.
830
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831JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
832 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
833
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834JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
835 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
836 former class.
837
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838JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
839 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
840 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
841
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842JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
843 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
844 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
845 extraction. Accept either.
846
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851JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
852 expanded.
853
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854JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
855
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856JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
857 it.
858
01a4a5c5 859JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 860 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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861 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
862 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
863
cb1d7830 864JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 865 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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866 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
867
610ff438 868JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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869 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
870 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
871 TLS connections
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873JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
874 sites use this now.
875
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876JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
877 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
878 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
879 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
880 have a dsn_lasthop option.
881
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882JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
883 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 884 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
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886JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
887
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888JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
889 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
890
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891JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
892 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
893
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894JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
895 /defer_ok option.
896
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897JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
898 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
899
fd4d8871 900JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 901 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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902 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
903
904JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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905 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
906 specify a port-range.
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908JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
909 timeout value per server.
910
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911JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
912 now have the list separator specified.
913
8a512ed5 914JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 915 option values.
8a512ed5 916
82c0c8ea 917JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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918 under OpenSSL.
919
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920JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
921
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922JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
923 rather than the verbs used.
924
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925JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
926 from 255 to 1024 chars.
927
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928JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
929
cfab9d68 930HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 931 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
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933JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
934 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
935
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936HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
937 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
938
4c04137d 939JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
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941JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
942
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943JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
944 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 945 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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946 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
947
1f12df4d
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948JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
949
1f155f8e
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950JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
951 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
952
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953JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
954 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
955
038597d2
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956JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
957
474f71bf
JH
958JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
959
7137ca4b
JH
960JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
961
dcb1095c
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962JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
963 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
964
2f460950
JH
965JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
966 added for tls authenticator.
967
2f680c0c
HSHR
968HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
969
9c695f6d 970
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971Exim version 4.85
972-----------------
4c57a40e 973
e449c3b0
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974TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
975 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
976 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
977 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
978 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
979 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
980 the script parsing/test process like normal.
981
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982TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
983 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
984 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
985 function when detected.
986
a9b8ec8b
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987JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
988 cause callback expansion.
989
6286d7c4
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990TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
991 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
992 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
993 instead of bool when processing it.
994
0f06b4f2 995JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
d567a64d
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996 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
997
be36e572
JH
998JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
999
ac4ef9bd
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1000JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1001
0eb51736
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1002TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1003
c713ca4b
TL
1004TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1005 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 1006
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1007JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1008 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1009 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1010 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 1011 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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1012 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1013
8bc732e8
JH
1014JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1015 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1016 exceeded it.
1017
a7fec7a7
JH
1018JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1019 version 3.3.6 or later.
1020
4c04137d 1021JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
774ef2d7
JH
1022 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1023 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 1024 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
723fe533
JH
1025 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1026 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1027 option is defined.
774ef2d7 1028
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TL
1029TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1030 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1031
8d692470
JH
1032JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1033 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1034 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1035 matches.
1036
e9477a08
JH
1037JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1038 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1039 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1040
ad4c5ff9
JH
1041JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1042 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
8dea5edf
JH
1043
1044JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1045 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1046 syntax errors.
1047
3394b36a 1048JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
8dea5edf
JH
1049
1050JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1051 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1052
3394b36a
TL
1053TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1054 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1055 tarball.
1056
ad4c5ff9
JH
1057JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1058
4c04137d 1059JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
ad4c5ff9
JH
1060 Bug 1561.
1061
1062JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1063 output list separator was used.
1064
8bc732e8 1065
1f0ebb98
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1066Exim version 4.84
1067-----------------
09728d20
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1068TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1069 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1070 return.
1f0ebb98 1071
a612424f 1072JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1073 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
a612424f
JH
1074
1075JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1076
1077TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1078 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 1079
1f0ebb98 1080
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1081Exim version 4.83
1082-----------------
1083
1084TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1085
1086 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1087 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1088 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1089 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1090 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1091 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1092
7245734e
TF
1093TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1094 utilities have not been installed.
1095
fd5dad68
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1096JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1097 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1098
5428a946
TL
1099TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1100 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1101
a3c86431
TL
1102TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1103 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
8ded8589
TL
1104 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1105 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1106
aa26e137
JH
1107JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1108
5a1b8443
WB
1109TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1110 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1111
72c9e342
PP
1112PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1113 not dns_use_dnssec.
1114
76f44207
WB
1115JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1116
770747fd
MFM
1117TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1118 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1119 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1120
8ddef691 1121TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
982650ec
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1122 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1123 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1124 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1125 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1126 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1127
b9c2e32f
AR
1128JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1129
e45a1c37
JH
1130JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1131 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1132
67d81c10
JH
1133JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1134 failed delivery.
1135
b1f8e4f8
JH
1136JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1137
511a6c14 1138JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
1139
1140JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1141 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1142
51c7471d
JH
1143JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1144 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1145
3695be34
TL
1146TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1147
1e06383a
TL
1148JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1149
76146973
JH
1150JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1151 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1152
1153 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1154 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1155 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1156
8c8b8274
TL
1157TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1158 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1159 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1160 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1161
35aba663
JH
1162JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1163
8c51eead 1164JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
578897ea
JH
1165 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1166 lookup).
8c51eead 1167
deae092e
HS
1168TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1169 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1170 Schlichting.
35aba663 1171
fd3b6a4a 1172JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1173 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1174
8d91c6dc
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1175TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1176 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1177
2b4a568d
JH
1178JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1179
d2af03f4
HS
1180TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1181 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1182 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1183
9d1c15ef
JH
1184JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1185 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1186
44662487
JH
1187JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1188 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
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1189 hosts_request_ocsp.
1190
ed3bba5f 1191JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1192 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1193 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1194
8ccd00b1
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1195JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1196
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1197TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1198 Christian Aistleitner.
1199
f2de3a33
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1200JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1201
6eb02f88
TL
1202TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1203 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1204
00bff6f6
JH
1205JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1206 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1207
071c51f7
JH
1208JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1209 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1210
a6d4c44e
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1211TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1212 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1213
3ae173e7
ACK
1214TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1215 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1216
c13d09b8
TL
1217TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1218 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1219 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1220
0df4ab80
JH
1221JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1222
66be95e0
PP
1223PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1224 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1225 Jasper Wallace.
1226
1bd0d12b
JH
1227JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1228
0de7239e
TL
1229TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1230 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1231 CVE-2014-2972
1232
fd3b6a4a 1233
2c422e6f 1234Exim version 4.82
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1236
1237PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1238
12f69989
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1239PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1240 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1241
54c90be1
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1242PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1243 by GnuTLS.
1244
1f4a55da
PP
1245PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1246 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1247 routines.
1248
13363eba 1249PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1250
66645890 1251PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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1252 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1253 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1254 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1255 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1256
a3fb9793 1257PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
1258 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1259 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1260 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1261 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1262 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1263
d27f98fe 1264TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1265
6822b909
TL
1266TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1267
e7568d51
TL
1268TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1269 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1270
ae0e32ee 1271TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1272 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1273 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
ca0ff207
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1274
1275TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1276
e2658fff
TL
1277TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1278
83712b39
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1279TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1280 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1281
976b7e9f
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1282JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1283
be4a1376
JH
1284JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1285
ec4b68e5
PP
1286PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1287
d7148a07
NM
1288NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1289 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1290
585121e2 1291JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1292
2519e60d
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1293PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1294 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1295 function.
a5f239e4 1296
13d08c90
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1297PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1298 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1299
bef3ea7f
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1300JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1301 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1302 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1303
846726c5
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1304JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1305
3a796370
JH
1306JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1307
ea722490 1308JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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1309 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1310
b1b05573
JH
1311JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1312 Bugzilla 884.
1313
362145b5
JH
1314JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1315 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1316
3c0a92dc
JH
1317JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1318 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1319
6d7c6175
PP
1320PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1321 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1322 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1323
6f123593
JH
1324JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1325 authenticators.
1326
c8e2fc1e
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1327JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1328 for control.
1329
005ac57f
PP
1330PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1331
3f1df0e3
PP
1332PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1333 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1334 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1335 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1336
67bd1ab3
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1337TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1338
1339 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1340 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1341 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1342 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1343 the retry rules.
1344
1345 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1346 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1347 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1348
1349 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1350 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1351 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1352 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1353
1ddeb334
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1354 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1355 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1356 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1357 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1358 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1359 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1360 delivery, as in LMTP.
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1361
1362 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1363 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1364
326cdc37
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1365TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1366
1367 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1368
1369 Resent-From: f
1370
1371 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1372 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1373 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1374 username as equal to the username.
1375
1376 This change corrects that bug.
1377
f62514b3
GF
1378GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1379 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1380 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1381
eb505532
TF
1382TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1383
14c7b357
PP
1384PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1385 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1386 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1387 NULL dereference and crash.
1388
94eaf700
PP
1389JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1390
6f5a440a
PP
1391PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1392 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1393 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1394
514ee161
SC
1395SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1396
fd98a5c6
JH
1397JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1398 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1399 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1400 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1401 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1402 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1403 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1404 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
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1405 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1406 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1407 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1408
035c7f1e
PP
1409PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1410 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1411
ff284120
PP
1412PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1413 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1414 Bugzilla 880.
1415
26e72755
PP
1416PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1417 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1418 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1419 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1420 an empty string is now equivalent.
1421
0fbd9bff
PP
1422PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1423 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1424 not performing validation itself.
1425
700d22f3
PP
1426PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1427 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1428
fcc8e047
JH
1429JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1430 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1431
4c04137d 1432TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1433
8c020188
PP
1434PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1435 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1436 other false fix of the same issue.
1437 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1438 Bugzilla 1363.
1439
d13cdd30
PP
1440PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1441 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1442
e2fbf4a2
PP
1443PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1444 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1445 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1446
f4c1088b
PP
1447PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1448 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1449 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1450
c5c2182f
PP
1451TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1452
73431ca9
JH
1453JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1454
2d07a215
TL
1455TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1456 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1457
a30a8861
TL
1458TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1459 Alexander Miroch.
1460
33382dd9
TL
1461TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1462 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1463 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1464 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1465 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1466
046172e6
TL
1467TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1468 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1469
581d7bee 1470TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1471 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1472 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1473
1474TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1475 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1476 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1477 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1478
237b2cf2
TL
1479TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1480
9fc5a352
TL
1481TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1482 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1483 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1484
b10e4ec2
TL
1485TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1486
e2cebd74
TL
1487TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1488 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1489 interaction.
1490
1491TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1492 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1493
2519e60d
TL
1494TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1495 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1496
e78e6ecf 1497
4263f395
PP
1498Exim version 4.80.1
1499-------------------
1500
1501PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1502 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1503 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1504
ea722490 1505
b1770b6e 1506Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1507-----------------
1508
1509PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1510 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1511 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1512
23c7e742
NM
1513NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1514
b322aac8
NM
1515NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1516 improved.
1517
4a891427
NM
1518NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1519
c1e794ba 1520PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1521
97753960
PP
1522PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1523
1524PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1525 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1526
df6303fa
PP
1527PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1528 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1529
7e6a8985
PP
1530PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1531 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1532
f1e05cc7 1533PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1534 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1535 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1536
4c287009
PP
1537PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1538
b98bb9ac
PP
1539PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1540 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1541
4a6a987a
PP
1542PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1543
c45dd180 1544PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1545
7db8d074
PP
1546PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1547 non-compliant senders.
1548 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1549
eae0036b 1550NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1551 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1552 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1553
dec5017e
PP
1554PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1555 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1556 in spool file corruption.
1557
c80c5570
PP
1558PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1559 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1560 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1561 "Got SSL error 2".
1562
076b11e2
PP
1563TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1564 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1565 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1566
5407bfff
JH
1567JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1568 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1569
9e45c72b
PP
1570JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1571
e74376d8
PP
1572PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1573 diagnostics.
1574 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1575
4c04137d 1576PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1577 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1578 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1579
7be682ca
PP
1580PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1581 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1582 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1583 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1584
ef840681
PP
1585PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1586 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1587
5bfb4cdf
PP
1588PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1589 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1590 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1591 resolver implementation change.
1592
c6e95d22
PP
1593PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1594 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1595
9cbad13b
PP
1596PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1597
9ee44efb
PP
1598PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1599
6a6084f8
PP
1600PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1601 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1602
12dd53c7
PP
1603PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1604 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1605
9e45c72b 1606JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1607 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1608
17c76198
PP
1609PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1610 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1611 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1612 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1613 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1614
53947857 1615PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1616
eae0036b 1617PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1618 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1619 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1620
9e45c72b 1621JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1622
7390e768
PP
1623PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1624 read-only, out of scope).
1625 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1626
08488c86
PP
1627PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1628 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1629 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1630 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1631
6475bd82
PP
1632PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1633
81f91683
PP
1634PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1635 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1636 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1637 real issues in debug logging.
1638
5779e6aa
PP
1639PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1640 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1641
3375e053
PP
1642PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1643 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1644 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1645
1646PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1647 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1648 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1649 problems.
3375e053 1650
9d26b8c0
PP
1651PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1652 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1653
57eb9e91 1654PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1655 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1656 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1657 needs to override this, it can.
1658
16880d1a
PP
1659PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1660 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1661 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1662
a799883d
PP
1663PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1664 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1665 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1666 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1667
3ecab157 1668PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1669
0599f9cf 1670
867fcbf5
PP
1671Exim version 4.77
1672-----------------
1673
1674PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1675 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1676
f1a29782
TF
1677TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1678
ab42bd23
TK
1679TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1680 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1681
0ca0cf52
TF
1682TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1683 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1684
921b12ca
TF
1685TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1686 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1687 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1688
1689 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1690 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1691 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1692 not safe for signals.
1693
1694 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1695 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1696 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1697 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1698 exiwhat.
1699
c99ce5c9
TF
1700TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1701
1702 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1703 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1704 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1705 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1706 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1707
1708 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1709 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1710 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1711 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1712 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1713 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1714
1715 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1716 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1717 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1718 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1719
1720 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1721 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1722 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1723 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1724
1725 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1726 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1727 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1728 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1729 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1730 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1731 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1732 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1733 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1734
1735 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1736 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1737 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1738 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1739
1740 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1741 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1742 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1743 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1744 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1745 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1746 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1747 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1748 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1749 details in the main documentation.
1750
3634fc25
TF
1751TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1752
792e8a19
TF
1753TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1754
5901f0ab
TF
1755TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1756 repository when doing development or release builds.
1757
7f2a2a43
PP
1758PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1759 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1760
061b7ebd
PP
1761PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1762 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1763 Bugzilla 97.
1764
e12f8c32
PP
1765PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1766
9e949f00 1767PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1768 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1769
1770PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1771 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1772
555ae6af 1773PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1774 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1775
1776PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1777 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1778
6f7fe114
PP
1779PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1780 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1781
c566dd90
PP
1782PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1783 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1784 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1785 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1786
d6cc7c78 1787PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1788 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1789 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1790
0d0e4455
PP
1791PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1792
3399bb60 1793PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1794
1795PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1796 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1797
0ca0cf52 1798
10906672
PP
1799Exim version 4.76
1800-----------------
1801
1802PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1803
754a0503
PP
1804PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1805 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1806
c0c7b2da
PP
1807PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1808
e97d1f08
PP
1809PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1810
084c1d8c
PP
1811PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1812 Bugzilla 1098.
1813
4e7ee012
PP
1814PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1815 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1816
c8d52a00
PP
1817TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1818 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1819
54e7ce4a
PP
1820PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1821 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1822
5ee6f336
PP
1823PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1824 Bugzilla 1104.
1825
c8d52a00 1826TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1827 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1828
1829TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1830 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1831 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1832 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1833
1834PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1835 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1836
10906672 1837
aa097c4c
NM
1838Exim version 4.75
1839-----------------
1840
4c04137d 1841NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1842 Bugzilla 1073
1843
7f3d9eff
TF
1844TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1845 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1846 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1847
159f52d2
TF
1848TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1849 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1850
0cc9542a
PP
1851PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1852 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1853 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1854
f7274286
PP
1855PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1856 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1857
7b797365
PP
1858PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1859 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1860
caacae52
NM
1861NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1862 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1863
09dcaba9
NM
1864NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1865 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1866
bc19a55b
PP
1867PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1868 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1869
bd4c9759
NM
1870NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1871 Fixes bug 943.
1872
b72aab72
PP
1873PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1874 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1875
2fe76745
PP
1876PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1877 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1878
76aa570c
PP
1879PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1880 SQL string expansion failure details.
1881 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1882
f1e5fef5
PP
1883PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1884 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1885
4d805ee9
PP
1886PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1887 extern declarations in function scope.
1888 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1889
cd59ab18
PP
1890PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1891 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1892 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1893 a kernel bug).
1894
332f5cf3
PP
1895PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1896 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1897
29cfeb94
PP
1898PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1899 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1900
660242ad
PP
1901PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1902 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1903
bc4bc4c5
PP
1904PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1905 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1906
2e64baa9
NM
1907NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1908 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1909 Dennis Davis.
1910
4c04137d 1911PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 1912
6bac1a9a
PP
1913PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1914
552193f0
NM
1915NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1916 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1917
1b587e48
TF
1918TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1919 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1920
aa097c4c 1921
8c07b69f
TF
1922Exim version 4.74
1923-----------------
1924
1925TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1926 consequences so log it to the panic log.
1927
c0ea85ab
TF
1928TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
1929 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
1930
0761d44e
TF
1931TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
1932
0a349494
PP
1933DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
1934 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
1935 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
1936
1937PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
1938 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
1939 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
1940
fea24b2e
PP
1941PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
1942 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
1943 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
1944 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
1945
6545de78
PP
1946PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
1947 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
1948 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
1949 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
1950
1670ef10
PP
1951PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
1952 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
1953 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
1954 arbitrary files.
1955
c0886197
PP
1956PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
1957 (Wolfgang Breyha)
1958
b7487bce
PP
1959PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
1960 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
1961 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
1962 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
1963 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
1964
8c07b69f 1965
97fd1e48 1966Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 1967-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
1968
1969PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
1970 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
1971 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
1972
6901c596
PP
1973PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
1974 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
1975
a8c8d6b5
JJ
1976JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
1977
77bb000f
PP
1978PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
1979
a29e5231
PP
1980PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
1981
ec5a0394 1982PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 1983
55c75993
PP
1984PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
1985
453a6645 1986PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
1987 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
1988 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
1989 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
1990
8544e77a
PP
1991PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
1992 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
1993 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
1994 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
1995 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 1996
83e029d5
PP
1997PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
1998
ed7f7860
PP
1999PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2000
7d9f747b
PP
2001PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2002
4b2241d2
PP
2003PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2004
10385c15
PP
2005PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2006
dbc4b90d
PP
2007PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2008
532be449
PP
2009PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2010
6a8de854 2011PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
2012 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2013 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 2014
5dc43717
JJ
2015JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2016
2017JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2018 "exim" to be used
55c75993 2019
3346ab01
PP
2020PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2021 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2022
491fab4c
PP
2023PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2024 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2025 Notification from John Horne.
2026
13eb9497
PP
2027PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2028 compatible.
2029
2030PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2031 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2032 it normally works.
2033
7f36d675
DW
2034DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2035 access.
2036
c1d94452
DW
2037DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2038 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2039 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2040
e2f5dc15
DW
2041DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2042 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2043 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2044 configuration file.
2045
cd25e41d
DW
2046DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2047 option (effectively making it always true).
2048
261dc43e
DW
2049DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2050 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2051
fa32850b
DW
2052DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2053 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2054
79d4bc3d
PP
2055PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2056 run-time user, instead of root.
2057
43236f35 2058PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2059 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2060
fb08281f
DW
2061DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2062 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2063 arguments.
3346ab01 2064
74935b98
DW
2065DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2066 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2067 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2068
90b6341f
DW
2069DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2070
57730b52
ML
2071NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2072
66581d1e 2073
465e92cf
JJ
2074Exim version 4.72
2075-----------------
2076
453a6645
PP
2077JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2078 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2079 typos
465e92cf 2080
453a6645
PP
2081JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2082 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2083 (Finput)
edae0343 2084
9bd3e22c
NM
2085NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2086 Patch from Alain Williams
2087
bb576ff7
NM
2088NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2089
5a1a5845
NM
2090NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2091 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2092
981a9fad
NM
2093NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2094 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2095
7fc497ee
NM
2096NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2097
1a41defa
JJ
2098JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2099
a466095c 2100NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2101 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2102
94a6bd0b
NM
2103TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2104
2105TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2106
2107MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2108 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2109 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2110
c1b141a8
NM
2111NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2112 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2113
b26eacf1 2114NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2115 Patch by Simon Arlott
2116
179c5980 2117PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2118 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2119
9bd3e22c 2120
7c6d71af
NM
2121Exim version 4.71
2122-----------------
2123
7d9f747b 2124TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2125
f013fb92
NM
2126NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2127
0eb8eedd
NM
2128NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2129
663ee6d9
NM
2130NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2131
177ebd9b
NM
2132NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2133
7c6d71af 2134
210f147e
NM
2135Exim version 4.70
2136-----------------
2137
cdd3bb85 2138TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2139 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2140
2141TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2142 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2143 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2144
2145TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2146 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2147 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2148
2149TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2150 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2151
210f147e
NM
2152NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2153 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2154 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2155 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2156
deafd5b3
NM
2157NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2158 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2159 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2160
089793a4
TF
2161TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2162
5f16ca82
TF
2163TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2164
dae9d94e 2165NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2166 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2167
7d9f747b 2168NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2169
06864c44
TF
2170TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2171 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2172 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2173 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2174
65a7d8c3 2175NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2176 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2177
23510047 2178TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2179
7d9f747b 2180NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2181
7d8eec3a 2182NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2183 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2184
89dec7b6
TF
2185TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2186 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2187
a99de90c
TF
2188TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2189 that they are available at delivery time.
2190
e2803e40
TF
2191TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2192
7199e1ee
TF
2193TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2194 incoming_port log selectors.
2195
e276e04b
TF
2196TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2197 setting expands to an empty string.
2198
ce552449 2199NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2200 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2201
e765a0f1 2202NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2203 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2204
4f054c63 2205NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2206 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2207
7d9f747b
PP
2208NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2209 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2210
7d9f747b
PP
2211NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2212 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2213
b52bc06e 2214NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2215 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2216
447de4b0
NM
2217NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2218
4c69d561 2219NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2220 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2221
d5c39246 2222NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2223 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2224
0b23848a
TK
2225TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2226
8f3414a1 2227NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2228 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2229
fb6f955d
NM
2230NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2231
2232NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2233
7d9f747b
PP
2234NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2235 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2236
7d9f747b
PP
2237NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2238 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2239
7d9f747b
PP
2240NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2241 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2242
7d9f747b
PP
2243NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2244 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2245
7d9f747b
PP
2246NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2247 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2248
7d9f747b
PP
2249NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2250 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2251
7d9f747b
PP
2252NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2253 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2254
7d9f747b 2255NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2256 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2257
7d9f747b 2258NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2259
7d9f747b
PP
2260NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2261 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2262
7d9f747b 2263NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2264
7d9f747b 2265NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2266
7d9f747b 2267NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2268
7d9f747b 2269NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2270
17792b53 2271NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2272 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2273
7d9f747b
PP
2274NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2275 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2276
91576cec 2277NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2278 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2279
7d9f747b
PP
2280NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2281 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2282
7d9f747b 2283NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2284
7d9f747b 2285NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2286
7d9f747b 2287NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2288
7d9f747b 2289NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2290
deafd5b3 2291
47db1125
NM
2292Exim version 4.69
2293-----------------
2294
4b3504d0
TK
2295TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2296 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2297 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2298
2299 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2300 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2301 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2302 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2303 build errors in sieve.c.
2304
81ea09ca
NM
2305NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2306 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2307 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2308
f13cddcb
SC
2309SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2310
7d9f747b 2311NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2312
7d9f747b 2313NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2314
7d9f747b 2315NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2316
2317
eb4c0de6
PH
2318Exim version 4.68
2319-----------------
2320
2321PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2322
6a3bceb1
PH
2323PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2324 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2325 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2326 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2327 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2328 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2329 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2330 for iplsearch lookups.
2331
2332 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2333 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2334 previously such lookups could never work.
2335
4c04137d 2336 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2337 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2338 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2339
2e30fa9d
TK
2340TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2341 version.
2342
0806a9c5
MH
2343MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2344 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2345 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2346 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2347 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2348 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2349
ae276964
TK
2350TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2351 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2352
0f2cbd1b
MH
2353MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2354 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2355 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2356 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2357 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2358 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2359
2b85bce7
PH
2360PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2361 local_scan API.
2362
93655c46
PH
2363PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2364
6c512171
PH
2365PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2366 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2367 encrypted.
2368
2369PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2370 by clients under certain conditions.
2371
aa6dc513
PH
2372PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2373 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2374
a96603a0
PH
2375PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2376
8f240103
PH
2377PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2378 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2379
2380PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2381
d677b2f2
PH
2382PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2383
d52120f2
PH
2384PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2385
64f2600a
PH
2386PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2387 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2388
8669f003
PH
2389PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2390
a4dc33a8
PH
2391PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2392 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2393
d6a60c0f
PH
2394PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2395
8f128379
PH
2396PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2397
8932dffe
PH
2398PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2399 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2400 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2401 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2402
ddea74fa 2403PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2404 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2405 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2406
ddea74fa 2407PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2408 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2409
ddea74fa
PH
2410PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2411
ce9f225c
PH
2412PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2413
19897d52
PH
2414PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2415
bc64a74d
PH
2416PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2417 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2418 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2419
eb4c0de6 2420
b4ed4da0
PH
2421Exim version 4.67
2422-----------------
2423
22ad45c9
MH
2424MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2425 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2426 Jan Srzednicki.
2427
b4ed4da0
PH
2428PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2429 issue a MAIL command.
2430
431b7361
PH
2431PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2432
2433 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2434
2435 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2436 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2437 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2438 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2439 item. This has been fixed.
2440
2441PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2442 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2443
83da1223
PH
2444PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2445 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2446
54fc8428
PH
2447PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2448 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2449 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2450
34c5e8dd
SC
2451SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2452
bbe15da8
PH
2453PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2454 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2455 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2456 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2457 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2458
0e8a9471
MH
2459MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2460 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2461 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2462
f0872424
PH
2463PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2464 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2465 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2466 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2467
b01dd148
PH
2468PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2469
6bf342e1
PH
2470PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2471
273f34d0
PH
2472PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2473 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2474 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2475 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2476 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2477
cf8b11a5
PH
2478PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2479
41c7c167
PH
2480PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2481 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2482 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2483 values).
2484
9c57cbc0
PH
2485PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2486
f3f065bb
PH
2487PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2488
047bdd8c
PH
2489PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2490
0ce9abe6
PH
2491PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2492
0e22dfd1
PH
2493PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2494
4c590bd1
PH
2495PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2496 no_callout_flush is set.
2497
09945f1e
PH
2498PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2499 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2500 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2501 fixed.
2502
c51b8e75
PH
2503PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2504
e28326d8 2505PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2506 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2507 other ACL rejections are.
2508
75b1493f
PH
2509PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2510 with slight modification.
2511
7c5214ec
PH
2512PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2513 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2514
4311097e
PH
2515PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2516 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2517 connection.
2518
29f89cad
PH
2519PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2520 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2521
5e687460
SC
2522SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2523
c3611384
PH
2524PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2525 expansion side effects.
2526
5a11a7b4
PH
2527PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2528 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2529 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2530 be the same.
2531
0e20aff9
MH
2532MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2533 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2534 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2535
ca86f471
PH
2536PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2537 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2538 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2539 were accidentally chopped off.
2540
a14e5636
PH
2541PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2542 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2543 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2544 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2545 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2546 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2547 pipelining has not been advertised.
2548
ec95d1a6
PH
2549PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2550
42855d71
PH
2551PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2552 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2553 This has been fixed.
2554
57c2c631
PH
2555PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2556 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2557 reported on Solaris.
2558
58c01c94
PH
2559PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2560 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2561 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2562 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2563 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2564 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2565 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2566
dee5a20a
PH
2567PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2568 cpus.
2569
d2ee6114
PH
2570PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2571
b2d5182b
PH
2572PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2573
79749a79
PH
2574PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2575 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2576 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2577 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2578 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2579 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2580
c456d9bb
PH
2581PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2582 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2583 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2584 host_all_ignored option.
2585
cd9868ec
PH
2586PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2587 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2588 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2589 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2590 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2591 is what is supposed to happen).
2592
ebeaf996
PH
2593PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2594 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2595 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2596 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2597 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2598 uses the Exim user.
2599
2679d413
PH
2600PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2601 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2602 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2603 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2604 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2605 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2606 users.
2607
84024b72
PH
2608PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2609
8005d38e
SC
2610SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2611 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2612 (Jez Hancock).
2613 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2614 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2615
3298c6c6
SC
2616SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2617
a43a27c5
PH
2618PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2619
58eb016e 2620PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2621 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2622 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2623 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2624 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2625 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2626 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2627 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2628 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2629 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2630 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2631
b43a74ea
PH
2632PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2633 advertised in response to EHLO.
2634
b4ed4da0 2635
5dd1517f
PH
2636Exim version 4.66
2637-----------------
2638
2639PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2640 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2641
2642 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2643 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2644
2645 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2646 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2647 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2648
2649 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2650 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2651 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2652 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2653 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2654
2655
93cfa765
TK
2656Exim version 4.65
2657-----------------
2658
2659TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2660 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2661 versions. (#438)
2662
d6066548
MH
2663MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2664 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2665 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2666
4362ff0d
PH
2667PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2668 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2669 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2670 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2671 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2672 rather than extend the field.
2673
93cfa765 2674
944e9e9c
TF
2675Exim version 4.64
2676-----------------
aa41d2de 2677
21d74bd9
TK
2678TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2679 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2680 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2681 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2682 these files.
2683
2684TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2685 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2686 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2687
2688TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2689 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2690 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2691
2692TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2693 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2694 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2695 in the field name.
2696
2b1c6e3a
PH
2697PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2698 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2699 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2700 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2701 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2702 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2703 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2704 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2705 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2706 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2707 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2708
1f872c80
PH
2709PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2710 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2711
2712PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2713 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2714 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2715 ignores EPIPE as well.
2716
d203e649
PH
2717PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2718 (quoted-printable decoding).
2719
cc2ed8f7 2720PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2721 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2722
ddfcd446
PH
2723PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2724
d45b1de8
PH
2725PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2726
2727PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2728
38a0a95f 2729PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2730 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2731
a2405d83
JJ
2732JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2733 in 4.64-PH/09.
2734
2735JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2736 miscellaneous code fixes
2737
6ea85e9a
PH
2738PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2739 rejections.
2740
26da7e20
PH
2741PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2742 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2743 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2744 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2745 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2746 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2747 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2748 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2749
14aa5a05 2750PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2751 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2752 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2753 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2754 function.
2755 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2756 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2757 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2758 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2759 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2760 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2761 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2762 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2763 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2764
ff75a1f7
PH
2765PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2766 decoding.
2767
e6f6568e
PH
2768PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2769 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2770 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2771 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2772 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2773 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2774 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2775 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2776
d6f6e0dc
PH
2777PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2778 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2779 list.
2780
322050c2
PH
2781PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2782 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2783 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2784 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2785 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2786 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2787 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2788 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2789 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2790 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2791 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2792 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2793 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2794
08955dd3
PH
2795PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2796 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2797 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2798 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2799 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2800 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2801 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2802
1eccaa59
PH
2803PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2804 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2805 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2806 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2807 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2808 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2809 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2810 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2811 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2812 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2813
602e59e5
PH
2814PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2815 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2816 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2817 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2818 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2819
411ef850
PH
2820PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2821 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2822 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2823 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2824 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2825 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2826 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2827
7befa435
PH
2828PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2829 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2830 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2831 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2832 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2833 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2834 been verified.
2835
48da4259 2836PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2837 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2838 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2839 and authorization.)
2840
48da4259
PH
2841PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2842 if any retry times were supplied.
2843
d1d5595c
PH
2844PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2845 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2846 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2847
0ef732d9
PH
2848PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2849
328895cc
PH
2850PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2851
fd700877
PH
2852PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2853 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2854 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2855 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2856 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2857 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2858
8dce1a6f
PH
2859PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2860 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2861
17af4a17
PH
2862PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2863 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2864 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2865
2866PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2867 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2868 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2869 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2870 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2871 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2872 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2873 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2874 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2875
2876 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2877 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2878 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2879 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2880 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2881 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2882 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2883 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2884 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2885
2886 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2887 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2888 hammering the server.
2889
c1114884
PH
2890PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2891 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2892
7a0743eb
PH
2893PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2894
0d85fa3f
PH
2895PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2896 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2897 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2898
1bf43b78
PH
2899PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2900 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2901 one case where this was not true.
2902
520de300
PH
2903PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2904 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2905 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2906 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2907 fails.
2908
48c7f9e2
PH
2909PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2910 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2911 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2912 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 2913 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
2914 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2915 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2916 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2917 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2918 smtp transport.
2919
99ea1c86
PH
2920PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2921 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2922 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2923 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2924
a2042e78
PH
2925PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2926 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
2927
4fbcfc2e
PH
2928PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
2929 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
2930 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
2931
aa41d2de
PH
2932PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
2933
af561417
PH
2934PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
2935
3cc66b45
PH
2936PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
2937
194cc0e4
PH
2938PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
2939 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
2940 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
2941 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
2942
a401ddaa
PH
2943PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
2944 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
2945
4e88a19f
PH
2946PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
2947 be meaningful with "accept".
2948
d7d7b289
SC
2949SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
2950 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
2951
2952SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
2953 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
2954 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
2955
2956SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
2957 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
2958 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
2959 there is data to show.
2960 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
2961
2962SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
2963 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
2964 as well as the number of messages.
2965
2966SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
2967 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
2968 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
2969
2970SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
2971 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
2972 have a flag are now skipped.
2973
2974SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
2975 Added the -emptyok flag.
2976
2977SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
2978 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
2979
0ea2a468
JJ
2980JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
2981 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 2982 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
2983
2984JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
2985 match 4.64-PH/13
2986
2987JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
2988 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
2989
2990JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
2991
2992JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
2993 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
2994
8a10f5a4
PH
2995PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
2996
30e18802
PH
2997PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
2998 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
2999 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3000 contravention of the specifications.
3001
55728a4f
PH
3002PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3003 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3004 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 3005
d7837193
PH
3006PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3007 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3008 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3009
87054a31
PH
3010PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3011
ea2c01d2
MH
3012MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3013 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3014 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3015 some point in the past.
3016
e4fa6968
PH
3017PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3018 transport during callout processing was broken.
3019
56f5d9bd
PH
3020PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3021 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3022
922e1c28
PH
3023PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3024 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3025
21eb6e72
PH
3026PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3027 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3028
a0540757
PH
3029PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3030
944e9e9c 3031
478be7b0
SC
3032Exim version 4.63
3033-----------------
3034
3035SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3036 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3037
3038SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3039 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3040 there is data to show.
3041 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3042
3043SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3044 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3045
2b965a65
TF
3046TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3047 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3048
45b91596
PH
3049TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3050 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3051
c59f5781
TF
3052TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3053 submissions from trusted users.
3054
90fc3069
TF
3055TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3056 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3057
6083aca0
TF
3058TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3059 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3060 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3061 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3062 there is now a framework to start from.
3063
765b530f
PH
3064PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3065 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3066 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3067
4e167a8c
PH
3068PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3069
4608d683
PH
3070PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3071
b8dc3e4a
PH
3072PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3073
5418e93b
PH
3074PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3075 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3076 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3077
b4a9bda2
PH
3078PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3079 libradius.
3080
45b91596
PH
3081PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3082 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3083 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3084
5547e2c5
PH
3085PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3086 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3087 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3088 its arguments.
3089
dbcef0ea
PH
3090PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3091 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3092 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3093 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3094 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3095
25257489
PH
3096PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3097 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3098
c816d124
PH
3099PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3100
a9ccd69a
PH
3101PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3102 operations in malware.c.
3103
75fa1910
PH
3104PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3105 signatures.
3106
a7d7aa58
PH
3107PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3108 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3109 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3110 all.
3111
42119b09
PH
3112PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3113 statements to "add_header".
3114
41609df5
PH
3115PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3116 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3117
a5bd321b
PH
3118PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3119 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3120 latter.
3121
e85a7ad5 3122PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3123 so that it is now:
3124
e85a7ad5
PH
3125 ${if or { \
3126 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3127 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3128 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3129 }{no}{yes}}
3130
e85a7ad5
PH
3131 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3132 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3133
d8fe1c03
PH
3134PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3135 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3136
16282d2b
PH
3137PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3138 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3139 any possible encoding problems.
3140
35d40a98
PH
3141PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3142 but not after initializing Perl.
3143
034d99ab
PH
3144PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3145 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3146 apparently, which is not desirable.
3147
6ec97b1b
PH
3148PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3149 queries.
3150
e22ca4ac
JJ
3151JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3152 --not options
3153
3154JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3155
33d73e3b
PH
3156PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3157 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3158 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3159 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3160
9ecb03f3
PH
3161PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3162 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3163 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3164
084efe8d
PH
3165PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3166 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3167 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3168 0.12.
3169
366fc9f0
PH
3170PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3171 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3172 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3173 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3174 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3175
c59f5781 3176
c887c79e
TF
3177Exim version 4.62
3178-----------------
3179
3180TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3181 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3182
1cce3af8
PH
3183PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3184 patch).
3185
afb3eaaf
PH
3186PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3187 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3188 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3189 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3190 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3191 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3192 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3193 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3194 451 error is used.
3195
e173618b
PH
3196PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3197
dd16e114
PH
3198PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3199 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3200 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3201
f7fd3850
PH
3202PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3203 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3204 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3205 odd errors.
3206
d87df92c
PH
3207PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3208 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3209
7e9f683d
PH
3210PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3211 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3212 option (which defaults to 0600).
3213
bfad5236
PH
3214PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3215
01c490df
PH
3216PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3217 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3218 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3219 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3220 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3221 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3222 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3223
d6629cdc
PH
3224PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3225
1cce3af8 3226
214e2000
PH
3227Exim version 4.61
3228-----------------
3229
3230PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3231 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3232 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3233 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3234 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3235 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3236 addresses as local.
3237
f9daeae0
PH
3238PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3239 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3240
7e66e54d
PH
3241PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3242
c8ea1597
PH
3243PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3244 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3245 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3246 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3247 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3248 grumble.
3249
911f6fde
PH
3250PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3251 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3252
47ca6d6c
PH
3253PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3254 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3255 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3256 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3257 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3258
ed0e9820
PH
3259PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3260 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3261 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3262 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3263
eff37e47
PH
3264PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3265 be the same on different OS.
3266
1921d2ea
PH
3267PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3268 testing.
3269
b3f69ca8
JJ
3270JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3271 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3272
3273JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3274 in 4.61-PH/06
3275
424a1c63
PH
3276PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3277 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3278 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3279 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3280 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3281 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3282 bounce message.
3283
7a100415
PH
3284PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3285 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3286 when Exim was called.
3287
19b9dc85
PH
3288PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3289 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3290
309bd837
PH
3291PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3292 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3293 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3294 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3295
59e82a2a
PH
3296PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3297 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3298 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3299 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3300 changes:
3301
3302 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3303 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3304 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3305
3306 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3307 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3308 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3309
9edc04ce
PH
3310PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3311 feature).
3312
1349e1e5
PH
3313PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3314 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3315 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3316 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3317 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3318 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3319 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3320 values from the SRV records were lost.
3321
ea49d0e1
PH
3322PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3323 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3324 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3325
064a94c9
PH
3326PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3327 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3328 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3329
727071f8
PH
3330PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3331 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3332 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3333 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3334 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3335 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3336 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3337 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3338 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3339 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3340
f78eb7c6
PH
3341PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3342 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3343 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3344
21c28500
PH
3345PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3346 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3347
3348PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3349 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3350 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3351 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3352 is given.
3353
1688f43b
PH
3354PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3355 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3356 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3357
3358PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3359 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3360 PH/23 above applies.
3361
9675b384
PH
3362PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3363 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3364 (for which there is an explicit test).
3365
6a3f1455
PH
3366PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3367
dac79d3e
PH
3368PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3369 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3370 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3371 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3372 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3373
5977a0b3
PH
3374PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3375 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3376 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3377 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3378
c91535f3
PH
3379PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3380 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3381 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3382
0d46a8c8
PH
3383PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3384
278c6e6c
PH
3385PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3386
2cbb4081
PH
3387PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3388 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3389 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3390
3eef829e
PH
3391PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3392 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3393 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3394 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3395 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3396
1ab95fa6
PH
3397PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3398 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3399 the message gets confusing).
3400
230205fc
PH
3401PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3402 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3403 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3404 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3405
75e0e026
PH
3406PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3407 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3408 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3409 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3410 same order.
3411
3412PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3413 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3414 the different processes.
3415
145396a6
PH
3416PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3417
3cd34f13
PH
3418PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3419
11121d3d
JJ
3420JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3421 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3422
3423JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3424 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3425
3426JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3427 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3428 messages matching specified criteria.
3429
8def5aaf
PH
3430PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3431
929ba01c
PH
3432PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3433 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3434
2632889e
PH
3435PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3436 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3437 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3438 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3439 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3440 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3441 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3442 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3443 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3444 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3445
944a9c55
PH
3446PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3447 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3448 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3449
4a23603b
PH
3450PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3451
4730f942
PH
3452PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3453 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3454 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3455 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3456 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3457 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3458 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3459 the variable.
3460
30dba1e6
PH
3461PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3462 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3463
382afc6b
PH
3464PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3465
a86229cf
PH
3466PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3467
50c99ba6
PH
3468PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3469
d35e429d
PH
3470PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3471 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3472 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3473 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3474 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3475 size of the count of files.
3476
f90d018c
PH
3477PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3478
75def545
PH
3479PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3480 used in LMTP mode:
3481
3482 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3483 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3484 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3485 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3486
3487 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3488 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3489 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3490
3491PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3492 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3493 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3494 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3495 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3496
c46782ef
PH
3497PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3498 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3499
71fafd95
PH
3500PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3501 will now be deprecated.
3502
2c5db4fd
PH
3503PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3504
9cf6b11a
JJ
3505JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3506 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3507 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3508
3509JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3510 with very large, slow to parse queues
3511
3512JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3513
3514JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3515
898d150f
PH
3516PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3517 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3518 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3519 SMTP output lines.
3520
46218253
PH
3521PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3522 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3523 Sieve code now uses this.
3524
e97957bc
PH
3525PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3526 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3527
81e509d7
PH
3528PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3529 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3530
3d240ff7
PH
3531PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3532
b37c4101
PH
3533PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3534 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3535 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3536 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3537 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3538
79378e0f
PH
3539PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3540 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3541 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3542 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3543
e49c7bb4
PH
3544PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3545
d114ec46
PH
3546PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3547
f3d7df6c
PH
3548PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3549 is preferred over IPv4.
3550
715ab376
PH
3551PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3552 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3553 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3554 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3555 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3556 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3557 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3558
6b31b150
PH
3559PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3560 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3561 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3562
3563PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3564
d515a917
PH
3565PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3566 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3567 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3568 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3569 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3570 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3571 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3572 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3573 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3574 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3575 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3576
9b8fadde
PH
3577PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3578 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3579 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3580
214e2000 3581
5de37277
PH
3582Exim version 4.60
3583-----------------
3584
cc38ddbf
PH
3585PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3586
3587 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3588 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3589
3590 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3591 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3592 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3593
72fdd6ae
PH
3594PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3595
3596 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3597 not a single digit.
3598
3599 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3600 string.
3601
3602 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3603 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3604 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3605 silly things.
3606
3607 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3608 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3609
3610 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3611 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3612
cb741023
PH
3613PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3614 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3615 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3616
f174f16e
PH
3617PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3618 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3619
c25242d7
PH
3620PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3621 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3622
3623 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3624
3625 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3626 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3627 this:
3628
3629 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3630
82c19f95
PH
3631PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3632 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3633 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3634 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3635 identical. For example:
3636
3637 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3638
3639 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3640 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3641 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3642
d7ffbc12
PH
3643PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3644 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3645 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3646 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3647
9f526266
PH
3648PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3649 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3650 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3651 message.
3652
87fcc8b9
PH
3653PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3654
3655 o fixes some comments
3656 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3657 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3658 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3659 and documents the missing references header update
3660
3661 and most important:
3662
3663 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3664 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3665 result)
3666
456682f5
PH
3667PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3668 Electronic Mail") by including:
3669
3670 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3671
3672 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3673 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3674 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3675 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3676 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3677
3678 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3679
3680 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3681
3682 The auto-replied keyword:
3683
3684 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3685 message by an automatic process,
3686
3687 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3688
3689 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3690 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3691
3692 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3693 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3694 other messages.
3695
3e46c1aa
PH
3696PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3697 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3698
49826d12
PH
3699PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3700
eba0c039
PH
3701PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3702 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3703 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3704
a0d6ba8a
PH
3705PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3706 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3707 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3708
f0917727
PH
3709PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3710 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3711 and treats the condition as false.
3712
096fee00
PH
3713PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3714
024bd3c2
PH
3715PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3716 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3717 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3718 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3719 not changing the active code.
3720
3721 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3722 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3723
3724 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3725 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3726
df199fec
PH
3727PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3728 (Bugzilla #53).
3729
d27f1df3
PH
3730PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3731 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3732 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3733 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3734 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3735 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3736 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3737 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3738 the text comparison.
3739
96776534
PH
3740PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3741 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3742 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3743 The same fix has been applied.
3744
5de37277 3745
9a799bc0
PH
3746Exim version 4.54
3747-----------------
3748
3749PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3750 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3751 It now does.
3752
99a4b039
PH
3753PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3754 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3755
3756PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3757
4b233853
PH
3758PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3759 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3760 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3761 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3762 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3763
8857ccfd
PH
3764TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3765 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3766 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3767 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3768 or /domain=).
3769
433a2980
PH
3770PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3771 testing suite.
3772
3e46c1aa 3773
9a799bc0 3774
e3a311ba
TK
3775Exim version 4.53
3776-----------------
3777
3778TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3779 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3780
13b685f9
PH
3781PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3782
395ff96d
PH
3783PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3784
5b68f6e4
PH
3785PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3786 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3787 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3788
1ab52c69
PH
3789PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3790 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3791 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3792
b07e6aa3
PH
3793PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3794 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3795 operating systems.
3796
254e032f
PH
3797PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3798 ${stat: expansion item.
3799
3af76a81
PH
3800PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3801 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3802
2548ba04
PH
3803PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3804 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3805 file for comments.
3806
b6c6011d
PH
3807PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3808
cf39cf57
PH
3809PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3810 setting.
3811
f1513293
PH
3812PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3813 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3814
727549a4
PH
3815TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3816
af46795e
PH
3817PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3818 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3819 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3820 the end of the subprocess.
3821
d7b47fd0
PH
3822PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3823 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3824 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3825 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3826 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3827
ee744174
JJ
3828JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3829
b582ab87
PH
3830TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3831
41a13e0a
PH
3832PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3833 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3834
f625cc5a
PH
3835PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3836
3837PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3838
21f7af35
PH
3839PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3840 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3841 HP-UX compiler.
3842
31480e42
PH
3843PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3844
2d280592
PH
3845PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3846 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3847 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3848
7cd1141b
PH
3849PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3850 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3851
3852PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3853 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3854
750af86e
PH
3855PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3856 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3857
3858 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3859 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3860
3861 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3862 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3863 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3864 contributed by a Radius user.
3865
3866PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3867 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3868
4304270b
TK
3869TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3870 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3871
750af86e
PH
3872PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3873 available.
3874
64ffc24f
PH
3875PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3876 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3877 received.
3878
5dd9625b
PH
3879PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3880 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3881 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3882 header lines when this was not necessary.
3883
5591031b
PH
3884PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3885
ba18e66a
PH
3886PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3887 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3888 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3889 exists".
3890
9cec981f
PH
3891PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3892 -bV or -d is used.
3893
aa2b5c79
PH
3894PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3895 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3896 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3897 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3898
48a53b7f
PH
3899PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3900
1c59d63b
PH
3901PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3902
671012da
TK
3903TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3904
1509d3a8
PH
3905PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3906
3907PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3908 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3909 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3910 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3911 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3912 settings.
3913
3914PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3915
2fe1a124
PH
3916PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3917 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3918 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3919 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3920 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3921 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3922 which is clearly wrong.
3923
8800895a
PH
3924PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3925
ccfdb010
PH
3926PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
3927 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
3928 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
3929 subsequently added.
3930
1130bfb0
PH
3931PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
3932 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
3933
ebcb507f
PH
3934PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
3935
c35e155c
PH
3936PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
3937 the "build-* directories that it finds.
3938
95d1f782
PH
3939PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
3940 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
3941
fd6de02e
PH
3942PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
3943 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
3944
58de37c5
PH
3945PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
3946 recipients, not senders.
3947
261cf466
TF
3948TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
3949 the ratelimit ACL was added.
3950
3ee512ff
PH
3951PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
3952
e08c430f
PH
3953PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
3954
bef5a11f
PH
3955PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
3956 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
3957 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
3958 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
3959
7546de58
TF
3960TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
3961
e5d5a95f
TF
3962TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
3963 clock is set back in time.
3964
2e88a017
TF
3965TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
3966 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
3967
a5f65aa4
TF
3968TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
3969 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
3970
e7726cbf
PH
3971PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
3972 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
3973 (see PH/47 above).
3974
a7fdad5b
TF
3975TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
3976 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
3977 header rewrites.
3978
6af56900
PH
3979PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
3980 type ("H").
3981
0925ede6
PH
3982PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
3983
66afa403
TF
3984TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
3985 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
3986 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
3987
0154e85a
TF
3988TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
3989 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
3990 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
3991 helo verification defer as a failure.
3992
16f12c76
PH
3993PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
3994 actual error message.
3995
bbe902f0 3996
e5a9dba6
PH
3997Exim version 4.52
3998-----------------
3999
4000TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4001
22c3b60b
PH
4002PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4003 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4004 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4005 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4006
06a9b4b5
PH
4007TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4008
c1ac6996
PH
4009PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4010 can still be requested.
4011
9c7a242c
PH
4012PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4013 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4014 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4015 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4016
87ba3f5f
PH
4017TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4018 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4019 circumstances, but probably never did.
4020
4021PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4022 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4023 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4024 in the header line.
4025
29aba418
TF
4026TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4027
fe0dab11
TF
4028TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4029 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4030
11d337a4
TK
4031TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4032
4033TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4034
415c8f3b
PH
4035PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4036 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4037 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4038 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4039 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4040 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4041
958541e9
PH
4042PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4043 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4044 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4045 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4046 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4047 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4048
c206415f
TK
4049TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4050 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4051
2a4be8f9
PH
4052PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4053 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4054
1cba11c5
SC
4055SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4056 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4057
4c04137d 4058SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4059
4060SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4061
4062SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4063
4064SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4065
4066SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4067
4068SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4069
1005d00e
TK
4070TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4071
4072TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4073 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4074 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4075
4076TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4077 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4078 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4079 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4080
9b4768fa
PH
4081PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4082 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4083 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4084
4085PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4086 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4087 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4088 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4089
0d7eb84a
PH
4090PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4091 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4092 to be made).
4093
4094PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4095 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4096 should work with maildirs and everything.
4097
40727bee
TK
4098TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4099 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4100
554d2369
TF
4101TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4102 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4103
1f922db1
PH
4104PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4105 function for BDB 4.3.
4106
ef213c3b
PH
4107PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4108
8ac170f3
PH
4109PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4110 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4111 involved.
4112
b1c749bb
PH
4113PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4114 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4115 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4116 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4117 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4118 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4119
4aac9b49
PH
4120PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4121 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4122 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4123 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4124 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4125 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4126 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4127 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4128
294520c8
TK
4129TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4130 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4131 details.
4132
5bd022fe
PH
4133PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4134 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4135
90e9ce59
PH
4136PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4137 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4138 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4139 test. It is now used for both.
4140
5ea81592
PH
4141PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4142 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4143 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4144 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4145 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4146 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4147
c6c2dc1d
PH
4148PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4149 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4150 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4151 string_vformat().
4152
fffffe4c
PH
4153PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4154 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4155 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4156
9a26b6b2
PH
4157PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4158 experimental DomainKeys support:
4159
4160 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4161 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4162 the control was given.
4163
4164 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4165
4aee0225
PH
4166PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4167
32d668a5
PH
4168PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4169
8187c3f3
PH
4170PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4171 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4172 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4173 db.h files).
4174
ff790e47 4175PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4176 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4177 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4178 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4179 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4180 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4181 course.
ff790e47 4182
5417f6d1
PH
4183PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4184 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4185 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4186 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4187 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4188 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4189
59cf8544
PH
4190PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4191 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4192 do -d+all out of habit.
4193
e7ad8a65
PH
4194PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4195 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4196 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4197
ade42478
PH
4198PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4199 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4200 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4201 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4202 record types that Exim uses.
4203
182ad5cf
PH
4204PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4205 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4206 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4207 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4208 non-existent file that was broken.
4209
b0d9fc80
TK
4210TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4211 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4212
4213TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4214 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4215 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4216
4217TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4218
47c7a64a
PH
4219PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4220 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4221 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4222 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4223 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4224 same time.
4225
a388bce4
SC
4226SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4227 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4228 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4229 at a slight CPU cost.
4230
4231SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4232 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4233
4234SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4235 by Marc Sherman.
4236
0793e4ed
SC
4237SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4238
c58b88df
PH
4239PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4240 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4241
e7ad8a65 4242
7982096b
PH
4243Exim version 4.51
4244-----------------
4245
1a46a8c5
PH
4246TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4247 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4248
2f079f46 4249TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4250
4251TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4252
4253PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4254 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4255
4256PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4257 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4258 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4259 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4260 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4261 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4262 file.
4263
4264PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4265 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4266 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4267 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4268 these two options.
4269
4270PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4271 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4272 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4273 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4274 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4275 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4276 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4277 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4278
4279PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4280 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4281
4282PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4283 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4284 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4285 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4286 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4287 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4288
4289PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4290 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4291 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4292 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4293
4294PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4295 Finch).
4296
4297PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4298 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4299
49c2d5ea
PH
4300PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4301 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4302 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4303 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4304 message.
49c2d5ea 4305
bf759a8b
PH
4306PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4307
83364d30
PH
4308PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4309 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4310
7999bbd7
PH
4311PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4312 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4313 to what was transported.)
4314
7dbf77c9
PH
4315TF/01 Added $received_time.
4316
74e0617f
PH
4317PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4318 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4319 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4320 spamd_address settings.
4321
2f079f46
PH
4322PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4323 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4324 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4325 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4326 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4327
8c841523
PH
4328PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4329
7766a4f0
PH
4330PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4331 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4332 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4333 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4334 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4335
8b417f2c
PH
4336PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4337 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4338
901f42cb
PH
4339PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4340 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4341 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4342 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4343 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4344 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4345 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4346 for failure.
4347
f9b9210e
PH
4348PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4349 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4350 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4351 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4352 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4353 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4354 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4355 "input=".
4356
54cdb463
PH
4357PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4358
cf00dad6
PH
4359PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4360 driver and ACL definitions.
4361
acb1b346
PH
4362PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4363 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4364
c5ddb310
PH
4365PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4366 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4367 understands it better than I do:
4368
4369 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4370 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4371
4372 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4373 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4374 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4375 => three warnings about OTP not working
4376 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4377
4378 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4379 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4380 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4381 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4382 for each call.)
4383 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4384 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4385
4386 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4387 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4388 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4389
31619da6
PH
4390PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4391 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4392 specified.
4393
bebaf0fc
PH
4394PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4395 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4396 "Linux".
4397
475fe28a
PH
4398PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4399 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4400 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4401
4402 warn !verify = sender
4403 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4404
4405 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4406 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4407
7e8bec7a
PH
4408PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4409
4410 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4411 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4412
4413 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4414 nomenclature these days.)
4415
e4a89c47
PH
4416PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4417 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4418
5ca2a9a1
PH
4419PH/30 In these circumstances:
4420 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4421 . First host does not offer TLS;
4422 . First host accepts first address;
4423 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4424 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4425 . Second host accepts second address.
4426 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4427 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4428 address.
7e8bec7a 4429
c688b954
PH
4430PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4431 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4432 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4433 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4434 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4435
fed77020
PH
4436PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4437 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4438
7fe1560f
PH
4439PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4440 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4441
ebb6e6d5
PH
4442PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4443 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4444 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4445
9c4e8f60
PH
4446PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4447 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4448 overlooked.
4449
4450PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4451
d7174846
PH
4452PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4453 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4454 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4455 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4456 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4457 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4458 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4459
4460 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4461 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4462 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4463 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4464 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4465
4466 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4467 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4468 routed further.
4469
cfe75fc3
PH
4470PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4471 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4472 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4473 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4474 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4475 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4476
be22d70e
PH
4477PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4478
0612b098
PH
4479PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4480 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4481 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4482 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4483 printable escape sequences.
4484
2e0c1448
PH
4485PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4486 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4487 body only.
4488
447d236c
PH
4489PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4490 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4491 are as follows:
4492
4493 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4494 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4495 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4496 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4497 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4498
4499 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4500 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4501 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4502
d20976dc
PH
4503PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4504
f656d135
PH
4505PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4506 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4507 play with."
4508
2e2a30b4
PH
4509PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4510 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4511 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4512 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4513 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4514 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4515 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4516 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4517 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4518 the log output.
4519
9176e9f0
PH
4520PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4521 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4522 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4523 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4524 "make".
4525
7982096b 4526
bbe902f0
PH
4527A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4528----------------------------------------
4529
4530Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4531changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4532needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4533in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4534that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4535release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4536from 4.43.
4537
4538I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
45394.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4540those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4541historical information.
4542
4543
f7b63901 4544Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4545-----------------
4546
5fe762f6
PH
4547 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4548
139059f6 4549 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4550 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4551
7086e875
PH
4552 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4553 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4554 place.
4555
35af9f61
PH
4556 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4557 filter fails to execute.
4558
b668c215
PH
4559 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4560 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4561 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4562 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4563 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4564
a494b1e1
PH
4565 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4566
4567 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4568 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4569 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4570 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4571
c5fcb476
PH
4572 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4573 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4574 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4575 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4576 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4577
69358f02
PH
4578 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4579
5be20824
PH
458010. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4581
eb2c0248
PH
458211. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4583 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4584 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4585 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4586
2a3eea10
PH
458712. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4588 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4589 sender verification.
4590
459113. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4592 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4593
23c7ff99
PH
459414. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4595
4deaf07d
PH
459615. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4597 connection timeout.
4598
926e1192
PH
459916. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4600 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4601
650edc6f
PH
460217. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4603 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4604
2c7db3f5
PH
460518. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4606 information about exactly what failed.
4607
3d235903
PH
460819. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4609
7c7ad977
PH
461020. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4611 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4612 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4613
981756db
PH
461421. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4615 It is now set to "smtps".
4616
d4eb88df
PH
461722. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4618 ignore_target_hosts.
4619
462023. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4621 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4622 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4623 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4624 "[x.x.x.x]".
4625
7d468ab8
PH
462624. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4627 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4628 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4629
463025. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4631 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4632 wake it up if nothing else does.
4633
62c0818f
PH
463426. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4635 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4636 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4637 end up negative.
4638
26034054
PH
463927. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4640 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4641
af66f652
PH
464228. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4643
90af77f4
PH
464429. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4645 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4646 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4647 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4648 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4649 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4650 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4651 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4652
d8ef3577
PH
465330. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4654 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4655 than one IP address.
4656
5cb8cbc6
PH
465731. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4658 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4659 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4660 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4661
14702f5b
PH
466232. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4663 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4664 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4665 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4666 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4667 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4668
063b1e99
PH
466933. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4670 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4671 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4672 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4673
652e1b65
PH
467434. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4675 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4676 respected.
4677
6f0c9a4f
PH
467835. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4679 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4680 $sender_host_address.
4681
33397d19
PH
468236. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4683 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4684 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4685 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4686 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4687 very small.
4688
7bb56e1f
PH
468937. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4690
4691 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4692 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4693
ea3bc19b
PH
4694 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4695 just the host names, not the priorities.
4696
4697 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4698 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4699 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4700
ea3bc19b 4701 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4702 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4703
0bcb2a0e
PH
470438. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4705 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4706 domain.
4707
2ac0e484
PH
470839. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4709
4e1fde53
PH
471040. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4711 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4712
de365ded
PH
471341. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4714 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4715 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4716
f05da2e8
PH
471742. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4718
d6453af2
PH
471943. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4720
f7b63901
PH
472144. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4722
472345. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4724 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4725 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4726 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4727 because the tests only now provoked it.
4728
a444213a
PH
472946. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4730 (this can affect the format of dates).
4731
0ec020ea
PH
473247. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4733 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4734 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4735 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4736
b1206957
PH
473748. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4738
473949. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4740 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4741 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4742 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4743
26dd5a95
PH
474450. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4745 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4746 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4747
343b2385
PH
474851. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4749 autoreply.
4750
1c5466b9
PH
475152. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4752 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4753 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4754 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4755 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4756 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4757 is going on).
4758
55ee9ee3
PH
475953. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4760 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4761 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4762 the line.
4763
d38f8232
PH
476454. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4765 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4766 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4767
4768 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4769 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4770 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4771 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4772 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4773 so I produce this patch..."
4774
3295e65b
PH
4775 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4776 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4777 is not defined.
4778
7102e136
PH
477955. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4780 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4781 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4782 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4783 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4784
3ca0ba97
PH
478556. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4786
c2bcbe20
PH
478757. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4788 long debug lines gets shown.
4789
18ce445d
PH
479058. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4791 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4792
1f5b4c3d
PH
479359. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4794
4795 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4796 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4797 of $primary_hostname.
4798
b975ba52
PH
479960. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4800 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4801 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4802 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4803 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4804 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4805 by change 4.50/55 above.
4806
4807 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4808 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4809 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4810 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4811 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4812 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4813 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4814
481561. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4816 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4817 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4818 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4819
17ffcae7
PH
482062. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4821 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4822
d95f9fdb
PH
482363. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4824 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4825 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4826 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4827 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4828
86b8287f
PH
482964. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4830 This has been fixed.
4831
60dc5e56
PH
483265. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4833 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4834 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4835 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4836 the caching.)
4837
533244af
PH
483866. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4839
a5a28604
PH
484067. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4841 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4842 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4843 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4844
7e634d24
PH
484568. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4846 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4847
3e11c26b
PH
484869. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4849 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4850 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4851
6729cf78
PH
485270. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4853 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4854 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4855 message there.
4856
00f00ca5
PH
485771. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4858 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4859 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4860
c9bdd01c
PH
486172. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4862 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4863 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4864 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4865
d43194df
PH
486673. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4867 during host lookups.
4868
fe5b5d0b
PH
486974. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4870 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4871
4872 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4873
76a2d7ba
PH
487475. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4875 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4876 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4877 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4878 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4879 background.
4880
488176. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4882 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4883
04f7d5b9
PH
488477. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4885 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4886 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4887
bc60667e
PH
488878. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4889
bb6e88ff
PH
489079. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4891 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4892 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4893 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4894 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4895 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4896 process earlier.
4897
1e70f85b
PH
489880. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4899 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4900 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4901 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4902 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4903
490481. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4905 tables).
4906
4e01f9d6
PH
490782. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4908
1ee1cef2
PH
490983. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4910 "vacation" handling.
4911
6e2b4ccc
PH
491284. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4913 OS variants using glibc.
4914
8e669ac1
PH
491585. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4916
495ae4b0 4917
bbe902f0
PH
4918----------------------------------------------------
4919See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4920----------------------------------------------------
4921
4922
4923Exim version 4.44
4924-----------------
4925
4926 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
4927 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
4928 transport
4929
4930 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4931 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4932 place.
4933
4934 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4935 filter fails to execute.
4936
4937 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4938 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4939 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4940 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4941 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4942
4943 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4944 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4945 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4946 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
4947
4948 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4949 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4950 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4951 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4952 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4953
4954 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4955
4956 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4957 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4958 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4959 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4960
4961 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4962 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4963 sender verification.
4964
496510. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4966 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4967
496811. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4969 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4970
497112. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4972 ignore_target_hosts.
4973
497413. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4975 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4976 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4977 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4978 "[x.x.x.x]".
4979
498014. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4981 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4982 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4983
498415. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4985 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4986 wake it up if nothing else does.
4987
498816. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4989 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4990 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4991 end up negative.
4992
499317. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4994 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4995
ea3a6f44 499618. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
4997
499819. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
4999 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5000 empty pattern.
5001
500220. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5003 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5004 one IP address.
5005
ea3a6f44
NM
500621. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5007 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5008 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5009 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5010 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5011 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 5012
ea3a6f44
NM
501322. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5014 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5015 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
5016
501723. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5018 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5019 $sender_host_address.
5020
502124. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5022
ea3a6f44
NM
502325. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5024 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5025 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5026
502726. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5028 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5029
ea3a6f44
NM
503027. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5031 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5032
ea3a6f44
NM
503328. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5034 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5035 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5036 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5037
503829. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5039 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5040 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5041
ea3a6f44
NM
504230. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5043 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5044 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5045 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5046
ea3a6f44
NM
504731. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5048 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5049 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5050
ea3a6f44
NM
505131. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5052 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5053
ea3a6f44
NM
505432. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5055 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5056 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5057 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5058 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5059 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5060 is going on).
bbe902f0 5061
ea3a6f44
NM
506233. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5063 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5064 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5065 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5066 CAN-2005-0021
5067
ea3a6f44
NM
506834. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5069 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5070 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5071 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5072 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5073 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5074 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5075
5076 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5077 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5078 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5079 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5080 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5081 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5082 CAN-2005-0021
5083
ea3a6f44
NM
508435. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5085 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5086 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5087 CAN-2005-0022
5088
ea3a6f44
NM
508936. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5090 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5091 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5092 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5093 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5094
ea3a6f44
NM
509537. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5096 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5097 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5098 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5099 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5100
ea3a6f44
NM
510138. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5102 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5103 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5104 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5105 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5106
5107
495ae4b0
PH
5108Exim version 4.43
5109-----------------
5110
5111 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5112 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5113 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5114 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5115 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5116 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5117 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5118
5119 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5120 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5121 the delivery.
5122
5123 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5124
5125 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5126
5127 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5128 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5129 to local_scan().
5130
5131 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5132 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5133 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5134 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5135 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5136
5137 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5138 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5139
5140 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5141
5142 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5143
514410. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5145 header_sender only.
5146
514711. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5148 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5149
515012. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5151 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5152 affecting debugging statements).
5153
515413. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5155
515614. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5157 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5158 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5159 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5160 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5161 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5162 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5163 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5164 after the received time, and all would be well.
5165
516615. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5167 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5168 condition in an expansion string.
5169
517016. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5171
517217. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5173 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5174 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5175 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5176 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5177 job under whatever limits there are.
5178
517918. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5180
518119. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5182 space).
5183
518420. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5185 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5186 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5187 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5188 return path is set.
5189
519021. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5191 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5192 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5193 binary data in such strings.
5194
519522. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5196
519723. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5198 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5199 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5200 failure, which is pointless.
5201
520224. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5203
520425. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5205
520626. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5207 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5208 Sender: header lines.
5209
521027. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5211 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5212 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5213
521428. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5215 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5216 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5217 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5218 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5219 happens.
5220
522129. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5222 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5223 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5224 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5225 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5226
522730. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5228 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5229 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5230 1024.
5231
523231. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5233 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5234
523532. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5236 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5237
523833. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5239
524032. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5241
524233. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5243
524434. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5245 syntax error.
5246
524735. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5248
524936. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5250
525137. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5252 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5253 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5254 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5255
525638. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5257 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5258
5259
5260Exim version 4.42
5261-----------------
5262
5263 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5264 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5265 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5266 it was not quoted.
5267 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5268 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5269 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5270 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5271 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5272 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5273
5274 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5275 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5276 verification failure".
5277
5278 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5279 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5280 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5281 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5282
5283 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5284 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5285 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5286 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5287 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5288 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5289 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5290 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5291 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5292 treated as a timeout.
5293
5294 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5295 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5296 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5297 not set for Exim filters).
5298
5299 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5300 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5301 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5302
5303 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5304
5305 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5306 try to make them clearer.
5307
5308 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5309 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5310
5311 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5312
5313 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5314
531510. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5316 only the Cygwin environment.
5317
531811. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5319 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5320 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5321 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5322 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5323
532412. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5325 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5326 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5327 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5328 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5329 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5330 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5331
533213. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5333 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5334
533514. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5336
5337 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5338 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5339 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5340
5341 To: susanne@some.where
5342
5343 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5344 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5345 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5346 of addresses in From: header lines).
5347
5348 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5349 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5350 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5351
5352 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5353 treated as non-personal.
5354
5355 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5356 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5357
535815. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5359
536016. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5361
536217. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5363 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5364 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5365
536618. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5367 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5368
536919. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5370 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5371 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5372 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5373 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5374 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5375
537620. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5377 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5378 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5379 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5380 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5381 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5382 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5383 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5384
5385 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5386
538721. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5388 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5389
539022. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5391 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5392 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5393
539423. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5395 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5396
539724. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5398 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5399 rather than long int.
5400
540125. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5402
540326. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5404
5405
5406Exim version 4.41
5407-----------------
5408
5409 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5410 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5411 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5412 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5413 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5414 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5415
5416
5417Exim version 4.40
5418-----------------
5419
5420 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5421 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5422
5423 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5424 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5425 socklen_t is defined.
5426
5427 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5428 always exist.
5429
5430 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5431 configured.
5432
5433 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5434 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5435 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5436 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5437 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5438
5439 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5440 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5441 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5442 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5443
5444 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5445 of flapping under certain conditions.
5446
5447 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5448 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5449 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5450
5451 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5452
545310. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5454
545511. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5456 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5457 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5458 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5459
546012. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5461 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5462 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5463 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5464 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5465 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5466 preserved with the message after it was received.
5467
546813. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5469 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5470 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5471 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5472 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5473 test suite worked just fine.
5474
547514. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5476 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5477 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5478
547915. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5480 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5481 string.
5482
548316. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5484 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5485 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5486 does not fully solve it.
5487
548817. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5489 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5490 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5491 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5492 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5493
549418. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5495 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5496 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5497
549819. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5499 string, for example:
5500
5501 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5502
5503 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5504 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5505 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5506 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5507 the routers could not see them.
5508
550920. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5510 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5511
551221. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5513 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5514 output).
5515
551622. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5517 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5518 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5519 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5520 that needed quoting.
5521
552223. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5523 was not being matched caselessly.
5524
552524. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5526 backslashes.
5527
552825. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5529 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5530 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5531 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5532 when use_sender is false.
5533
553426. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5535
553627. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5537
553828. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5539
554029. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5541 the configuration file.
5542
554330. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5544 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5545
554631. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5547
554832. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5549 bytes in the message body.
5550
555133. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5552 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5553 delivery.
5554
555534. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5556
555735. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5558
555936. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5560 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5561 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5562 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5563 another IP address.
5564
5565
5566Exim version 4.34
5567-----------------
5568
5569 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5570 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5571
5572 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5573 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5574 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5575 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5576 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5577
5578 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5579 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5580
5581 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5582 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5583 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5584
5585 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5586 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5587 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5588
5589 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5590 for routers.
5591
5592 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5593 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5594 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5595 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5596 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5597 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5598 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5599
5600
5601Exim version 4.33
5602-----------------
5603
5604 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5605 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5606 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5607 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5608 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5609 default (and expected) setting.
5610
5611 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5612 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5613 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5614 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5615
5616 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5617 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5618
5619 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5620 in domain lists.
5621
5622 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5623 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5624 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5625 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5626 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5627 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5628
5629 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5630 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5631 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5632
5633 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5634 part (NOT match_host).
5635
5636 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5637
5638 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5639 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5640 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5641 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5642 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5643 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5644 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5645 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5646 the same named file.
5647
564810. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5649 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5650 when Exim is built.
5651
565211. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5653 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5654 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5655 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5656 a host name.
5657
565812. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5659 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5660 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5661
566213. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5663
566414. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5665
566615. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5667
566816. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5669 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5670
567117. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5672 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5673 before starting the TLS session.
5674
567518. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5676
567719. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5678 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5679
568020. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5681 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5682 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5683 colon in the middle).
5684
5685
5686Exim version 4.32
5687-----------------
5688
5689 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5690 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5691 multiple configurations are in use.
5692
5693 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5694 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5695 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5696 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5697 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5698 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5699
5700 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5701 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5702
5703 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5704 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5705 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5706
5707 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5708 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5709 occurs.
5710
5711 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5712 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5713
5714 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5715
5716 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5717 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5718
5719 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5720
5721 -prval:sval
5722
5723 is equivalent to
5724
5725 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5726
5727 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5728 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5729 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5730 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5731 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5732
573310. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5734 Exim's behaviour:
5735
5736 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5737 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5738 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5739 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5740 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5741 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5742
5743 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5744 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5745 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5746 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5747 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5748 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5749 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5750 string.
5751
5752 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5753 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5754 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5755 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5756 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5757
575811. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5759
576012. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5761 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5762 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5763
576413. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5765
576614. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5767 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5768 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5769 information.
5770
577115. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5772 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5773
577416. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5775 Three changes have been made:
5776
5777 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5778 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5779 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5780 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5781 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5782
5783 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5784 been restored.
5785
5786 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5787 the modified behaviour.
5788
5789
5790Exim version 4.31
5791-----------------
5792
5793 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5794 Larry Rosenman.
5795
5796 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5797 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5798
5799 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5800 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5801 try to track down a specific problem.
5802
5803 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5804 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5805 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5806
5807 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5808 warning.
5809
5810 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5811 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5812 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5813 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5814 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5815 some earlier ones do not.
5816
5817 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5818
5819 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5820 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5821 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5822 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5823 address literals are enabled, of course).
5824
5825 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5826
582710. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5828 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5829 by a command such as
5830
5831 exim -f "" ...
5832
5833 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5834
583511. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5836
583712. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5838 remained set. It is now erased.
5839
584013. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5841 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5842
584314. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5844 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5845 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5846 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5847 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5848 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5849 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5850 appropriate error code.
5851
585215. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5853 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5854 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5855 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5856 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5857 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5858
585916. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5860 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5861 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5862
586317. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5864 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5865 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5866 terminate the header.
5867
586818. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5869 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5870 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5871
587219. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5873 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5874 (4.30/29). In particular:
5875
5876 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5877 imposed.
5878
5879 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5880 to write a maildirsize file.
5881
5882 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5883 the transport, the new value overrides.
5884
5885 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5886 count.
5887
588820. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5889 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5890 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5891 space or a tab.
5892
589321. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5894 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5895 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5896 the fallback hosts.
5897
589822. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5899 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5900 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5901
590223. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5903 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5904 using a union.
5905
590624. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5907 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5908 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5909
591025. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5911
591226. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5913
591427. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5915
591628. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5917 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5918 become corrupted.
5919
592029. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5921 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5922 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5923 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5924 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5925 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5926 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
5927 too great.
5928
592930. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
5930 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
5931 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
5932 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
5933 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
5934 incorrectly.
5935
593631. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
5937 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
5938 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
5939 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
5940 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
5941 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
5942 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
5943 cached value only when the same options are set.
5944
594532. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
5946
594733. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
5948 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
5949 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
5950 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
5951 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
5952
595334: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
5954 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
5955 it is clearly obsolete.
5956
595735. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
5958 transport.
5959
596036. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
5961 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
5962 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
5963 times.
5964
596537. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
5966 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
5967 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
5968 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
5969 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
5970
597138. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
5972 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
5973 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
5974 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
5975
597639. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
5977
5978 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
5979
5980 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
5981 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
5982 2^31.
5983
598440. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
5985 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
5986 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
5987 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
5988 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
5989 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
5990 $localpart_data.
5991
599241. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
5993 with the -f command-line option.
5994
599542. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
5996 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
5997 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
5998 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
5999 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6000 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6001
600243. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6003 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6004 line.
6005
600644. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6007 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6008 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6009 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6010 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6011 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6012 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6013 buffer is too small.
6014
601545. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6016 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6017
601846. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6019 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6020 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6021 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6022 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6023 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6024 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6025 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6026 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6027
602847. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6029 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6030 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6031
603248. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6033 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6034 ACL").
6035
603649. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6037 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6038 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6039 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6040 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6041
604250. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6043 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6044 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6045 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6046 is set.
6047
604851. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6049
605052. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6051
605253. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6053 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6054
605554. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6056 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6057 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6058
605955. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6060 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6061 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6062 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6063 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6064
606556. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6066 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6067 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6068 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6069 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6070 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6071 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6072
607357. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6074 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6075 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6076 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6077 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6078 the test of how many are available.
6079
608058. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6081 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6082 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6083 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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6084 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6085 new message is started.
6086
608759. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6088 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6089
609060. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6091 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6092
609361. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6094 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6095 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6096 is no long logged.
6097
609862. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6099 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6100 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6101 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6102 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6103 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6104 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6105
610663. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6107 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6108 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6109 interpreted as octal.
6110
611164. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6112 setting.
6113
611465. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6115 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6116 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6117 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6118 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6119 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6120
612166. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6122 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6123 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6124 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6125
6126 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6127 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6128 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6129 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6130
6131 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6132 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6133 is a bug fix.
6134
6135 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6136 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6137
613867. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6139
614068. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6141 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6142 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6143 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6144
614569. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6146 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6147 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6148 supplied", which is not helpful.
6149
615070. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6151 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6152 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6153
615471. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6155 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6156 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6157 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6158 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6159 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6160 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6161 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6162
616372. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6164 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6165 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6166 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6167 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6168
616973. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6170 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6171 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6172 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6173 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6174 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6175
617674. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6177 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6178 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6179
618075. Added write_rejectlog option.
6181
618276. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6183 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6184 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6185 variables.
6186
618777. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6188
618978. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6190 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6191 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6192 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6193 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6194 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6195 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6196 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6197
619879. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6199 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6200 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6201 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6202 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6203
620480. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6205 Haardt.
6206
620781. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6208 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6209 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6210 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6211 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6212 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6213 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6214 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6215 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6216
6217
6218Exim version 4.30
6219-----------------
6220
6221 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6222 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6223 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6224
6225 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6226 fixed.
6227
6228 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6229 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6230 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6231
6232 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6233 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6234 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6235 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6236 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6237 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6238
6239 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6240 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6241 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6242 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6243 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6244 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6245 the Exim test suite.
6246
6247 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6248 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6249 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6250 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6251
6252 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6253 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6254 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6255 specify it in this variable.
6256
6257 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6258 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6259 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6260 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6261
6262 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6263 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6264 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6265 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6266
6267 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6268 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6269 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6270 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6271 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6272
6273 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6274
627510. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6276 they are logged.
6277
627811. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6279 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6280 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6281 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6282 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6283
628412. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6285 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6286
628713. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6288 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6289 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6290 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6291 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6292
629314. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6294 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6295
629615. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6297 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6298 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6299
630016. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6301 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6302
630317. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6304 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6305
630618. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6307 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6308 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6309
631019. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6311 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6312
631320. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6314 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6315 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6316 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6317
631821. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6319
632022. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6321 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6322 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6323 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6324
632523. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6326
632724. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6328 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6329
633025. Added .include_if_exists.
6331
633226. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6333 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6334 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6335 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6336 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6337 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6338
633927. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6340
634128. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6342 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6343 this.
6344
634529. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6346
634730. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6348 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6349
6350 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6351 550 Sender verify failed
6352
6353 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6354 the final line of the response.
6355
635631. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6357 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6358 all other user lookups.
6359
636032. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6361 delivery time.
6362
636333. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6364 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6365 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6366 result into an int without checking.
6367
636834. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6369 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6370 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
495ae4b0
PH
6371
637235. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6373 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6374 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6375 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6376
637736. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6378 correctly.
6379
638037. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6381 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6382
638338. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6384 to the empty sender.
6385
638639. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6387 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6388 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6389 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6390 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6391 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6392 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6393 panic log.
6394
639540. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6396 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6397 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6398 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6399 used.
6400
640141. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6402 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6403
640442. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6405 timestamps.
6406
640743. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6408 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6409
641044. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6411
641245. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6413 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6414 logs.
6415
641646. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6417 as soon as it is encountered.
6418
641947. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6420
642148. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6422 rewritten to "<>".
6423
642449. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6425 recognizes a tab character.
6426
642750. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6428 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6429 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6430 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6431
643251. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6433
643452. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6435 crash.
6436
643753. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6438
643954. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6440
644155. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6442 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6443 2822.
6444
644556. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6446 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6447 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6448 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6449 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6450
645157. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6452 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6453
645458. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6455 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6456 list (.included file names were always shown).
6457
645859. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6459 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6460 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6461 root at that time.
6462
646360. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6464 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6465
646661. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6467
646862. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6469
647063. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6471
647264. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6473 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6474 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6475 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6476 failures to open the logs.
6477
647865. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6479 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6480 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6481 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6482 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6483 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6484 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6485
6486
6487Exim version 4.24
6488-----------------
6489
6490 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6491 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6492 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6493 change 4.23/1.
6494
6495 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6496 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6497 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6498
6499 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6500 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6501 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6502
6503 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6504 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6505 causing some misleading effects.
6506
6507 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6508 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6509 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6510
6511 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6512 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6513 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6514 queue-runner function directly.
6515
6516
6517Exim version 4.23
6518-----------------
6519
6520 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6521 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6522
6523 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6524 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6525 was always written to the default place.
6526
6527 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6528 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6529 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6530
6531 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6532
6533 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6534
6535 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6536 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6537 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6538
6539 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6540 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6541 must start.
6542
6543 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6544 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6545 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6546
6547 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6548 command line option is disabled.
6549
6550 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6551 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6552
6553 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6554
6555 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6556
6557 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6558 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6559
656010. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6561
656211. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6563 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6564 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6565 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6566 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6567 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6568
656912. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6570 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6571 timeout.
6572
657313. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6574 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6575
657614. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6577 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6578
657915. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6580 received was valid base64.
6581
658216. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6583 name of the variable that was being set.
6584
658517. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6586
658718. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6588 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6589 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6590 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6591 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6592 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6593
659419. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6595
659620. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6597 nor realm was specified.
6598
659921. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6600 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6601 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6602 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6603
660422. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6605 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6606 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6607
660823. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6609 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6610 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6611
661224. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6613 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6614 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6615 some systems use these upper case variants.
6616
661725. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6618 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6619 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6620 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6621
662226. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6623
662427. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6625 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6626
662728. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6628 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6629 expansion variable.
6630
663129. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6632
663330. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6634 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6635 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6636 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6637
663831. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6639 using it.
6640
664132. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6642 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6643 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6644
664533. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6646 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6647
664834. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6649 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6650 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6651 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6652
665335. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6654 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6655 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6656
665736. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6658
665937. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6660 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6661 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6662 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6663 aborted.
6664
666538. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6666 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6667 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6668
666939. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6670
667140. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6672 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6673
667441. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6675 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6676
667742. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6678 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6679 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6680 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6681 when emails are that large.
6682
6683
6684
6685Exim version 4.22
6686-----------------
6687
6688 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6689 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6690
6691 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6692 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6693 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6694
6695 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6696 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6697 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6698
6699 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6700 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6701 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6702 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6703 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6704
6705 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6706 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6707 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6708 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6709 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6710 ever.
6711
6712 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6713 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6714 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6715 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6716 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6717 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6718 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6719 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6720 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6721 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6722 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6723 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6724 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6725 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6726
6727 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6728 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6729 parameterised it.
6730
6731 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6732 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6733 error should be diagnosed.
6734
6735 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6736 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6737 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6738 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6739 appeared instead of "NULL".
6740
674110. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6742 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6743 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6744 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6745 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6746 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6747 proceeds).
6748
6749 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6750 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6751 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6752
6753
6754Exim version 4.21
6755-----------------
6756
6757 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6758 or receiver verification errors.
6759
6760 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6761 name.
6762
6763 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6764 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6765 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6766 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6767
6768 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6769 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6770 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6771 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6772 shouldn't happen again.
6773
6774 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6775 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6776 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6777
6778 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6779 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6780
6781 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6782
6783 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6784 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6785
6786 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6787 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6788 RFC.
6789
679010. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6791 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6792 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6793
679411. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6795 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6796 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6797 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6798
679912. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6800 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6801 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6802 to define what should happen).
6803
680413. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6805 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6806 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6807
680814. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6809
681015. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6811
681216. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6813 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6814
4c04137d 681517. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
495ae4b0
PH
6816 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6817 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6818 structure in all cases.
6819
6820 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6821 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6822 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6823 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6824
682518. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6826 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6827 domain name.
6828
682919. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6830 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6831
683220. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6833 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6834
683521. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6836 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6837 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6838
683922. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6840 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6841 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6842
684323. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6844 the book and for uniformity.
6845
684624. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6847
684825. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6849 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
495ae4b0
PH
6850 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6851 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6852 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6853 non-existent command as the problem.
6854
685526. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6856 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6857 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6858
685927. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6860
686128. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6862 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6863 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6864
686529. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6866 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6867 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6868 timestamps using strftime().
6869
687030. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6871 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6872
687332. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6874 transport-time rewrites.
6875
687633. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6877 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6878 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6879 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6880
688134. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6882 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6883
688435. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6885 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6886 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6887 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6888 comma and a space.
6889
689036. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6891 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6892 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6893 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6894 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6895 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6896 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6897
689837. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6899 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6900 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6901 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6902 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6903
690438. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6905 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6906 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6907 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6908 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6909 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6910 remaining text gets split now.
6911
691239. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6913 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6914 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6915 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6916
691740. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6918 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6919 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6920 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6921 $return_path.
6922
692341. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6924 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6925 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6926 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
6927 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
6928 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
6929 passed through if needed.
6930
693142. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
6932 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
6933 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
6934 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
6935 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
6936 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
6937
693843. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
6939 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
6940 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
6941 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
6942 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
6943
694444. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
6945 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
6946 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
6947 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
6948 incorrect size information for certain domains.
6949
695045. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
6951 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
6952 noticed.
6953
695446. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
6955 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
6956 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
6957 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
6958 mayhem of various kinds.
6959
696047. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
6961 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 6962 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
495ae4b0
PH
6963 the right test for positive values.
6964
696548. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
6966 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
6967 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
6968 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
6969 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
6970 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
6971 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
6972 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
6973 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
6974 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
6975 envelope.
6976
697749. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
6978 module.
6979
698050. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
6981 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
6982 forbidding it.
6983
698451. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
6985 the existing equality matching.
6986
698752. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
6988 dealing with inode numbers.
6989
699053. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
6991 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
6992 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
6993
699454. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
6995 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
6996 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
6997 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
6998 local_scan().
6999
700055. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7001 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7002 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7003 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7004 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7005 relay addresses has also been removed.
7006
700756. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7008
700957. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7010 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7011 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7012
701358. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7014 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7015 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7016 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7017 processing applies to CR:
7018
7019 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7020 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7021
7022 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7023 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7024 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7025 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7026
702759. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7028 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7029 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7030
703160. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7032 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7033 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7034 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7035 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7036 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7037 arisen.
7038
703961. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7040 program routers.
7041
704262. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7043 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7044 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7045 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7046 adds:
7047
7048 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7049
7050 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7051
7052 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7053
705463. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7055 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7056 not considered personal.
7057
705864. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7059
706065. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7061
706266. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7063
706467. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7065 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7066 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7067 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7068 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7069 header lines, and spool format errors.
7070
707168. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7072 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7073 for more flexibility.
7074
707569. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7076 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7077 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7078
707970. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7080 Sabourenkov.
7081
708271. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7083 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7084 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7085 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7086 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7087 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7088 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7089 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7090 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7091
709272. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7093 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7094 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7095 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7096 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7097 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7098 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7099
710073. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7101 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7102 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7103
710474. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7105 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7106 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7107 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7108 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7109 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7110 instead of killing the process with assert().
7111
711275. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7113 than Unicode encoding.
7114
711576. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7116 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7117 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7118 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7119
712077. Added process_log_path.
7121
712278. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7123 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7124
712579. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7126 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7127
712880. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7129 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7130 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7131
713281. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7133 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7134 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7135 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7136 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7137 were applied:
7138
7139 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7140 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7141 as invalid.
7142
714382. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7144 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7145 they will be used during message reception.
7146
7147
7148Exim version 4.20
7149-----------------
7150
7151The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7152
7153****