Fix taint issue with retry records. Bug 2492
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1This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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9JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
10 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
11 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
12
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13JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
14
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15JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
16 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
17 option.
18
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19JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
20 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
21 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
22
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23JH/05 Regard command-line receipients as tainted.
24
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25JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, whe due to SIGTERM.
26
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27JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
28 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
29 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
30
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31JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
32 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
33 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
34
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35JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
36 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
37
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38JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
39 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
40 was taken.
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45
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46JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
47 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
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50 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
51 its own TCP segment.
52
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53JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
54 each verb.
55
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56JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
57
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58JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
59
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60JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
61 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
62
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63JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
64 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
65 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
66 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
67 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
68 suitably configured).
69
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71 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
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73JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
74 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
75 crash could result.
76
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77JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
78 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
79
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80JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
81 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
82 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
83 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
84 to this system.
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86JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
87 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
88 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
89
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90JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
91 output.
92
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93JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
94 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
95
3c55eef2 96JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
00c0dd4e 97 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
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98 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
99 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
100 input).
101
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102HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
103 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
104 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
105 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
106 (It was "hdr.$pid".)
107
7d8d08c4 108HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
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110
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112 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
113 affected.
114
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115JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
116 on some platforms for bit 31.
117
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118JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
119 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
120 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
121 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
122 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
123 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
124 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
125 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
126
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127JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
128
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129JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
130 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
131
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132JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
133 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
134 facility.
135
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136JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
137 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
138 documentation.
139
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140JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
141 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
142 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previoud the default was to
143 not do so.
144
59c0959a 145JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
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146 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
147 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
148
149JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
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150 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
151 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
152 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
153 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
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155JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
156 reject under TFO.
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efad2f41 158JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
4e48d56c 159 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
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160 be requested on all coneections.
161
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162JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
163 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
164
6ee11061 165PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
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167JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
168 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
169 one for these; the option was ignored.
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171JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
172 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
173 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
174 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
175
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176JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
177 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
178 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
179 standards.
180
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181JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
182 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
183 error ignored was made.
184
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185JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
186
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187JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
188 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
189 values, to catch one form of exploit.
190
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191JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
192 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
193 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
194
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195JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
196 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
197 causing a segfault.
198
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199JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
200 them in our smtp response.
201
9c6881f8 202JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
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203 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
204 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
205 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
206 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
207
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208JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
209 link count into consideration.
210
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211HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
212 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
213
214JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
215 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
216 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
217 surprise.
218
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220
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221JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
222
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223JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
224
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225JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
226 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
227 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
228 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
229
ab0e957b 230HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
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232JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
233 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
234 active.
235
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236JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
237 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
238 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
239
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240JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
241 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
242 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
243
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244JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
245 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
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246 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
247 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
248 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
249 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
250 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
251 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
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253JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
254 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
255 resulted in an indefinite loop.
256
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257JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
258 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
259 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
260
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265JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
266 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
267
268JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
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269 non-signal-safe functions being used.
270
271JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
272 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
273 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
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275JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
276 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
277 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
278
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279JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
280 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
281 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
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282 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
283 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
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284 messed with.
285
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286PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
287 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
288
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289JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
290 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
291 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
292 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
293 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
294 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
295 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
296
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297JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
298 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
299
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300JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
301 legitimate.
302
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303JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
304 Previously this would segfault.
305
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306JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
307 segfault.
308
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309JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
310 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
311 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
312 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
313 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
314 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
315
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316JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
317
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318JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
319 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
320 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
321 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
322
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323JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
324
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325JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
326 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
327 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
328 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
329
5054c4fd 330JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
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332JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
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334JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
335 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
336 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
337
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338JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
339 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
340 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
341
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342PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
343
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344JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
345 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
346 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
347 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
348
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349PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
350 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
351 promised '?' replacement.
352
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353PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
354
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355JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
356 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
357 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
358 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
359 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
360
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361JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
362 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
363 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
364
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365JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
366 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
367 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
368
7ea1237c 369JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
570cb1bd 370 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
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371 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
372
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373JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
374 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
375 hope that is portable enough.
376
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377JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
378 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
379 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
380 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
381
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382JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
383 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
384 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
385
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386JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
387 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
388 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
389 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
390
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391JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
392 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
393
75c121f0 394JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
059f2ace 395 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
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396 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
397 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
398
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399JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
400 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
401 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
402
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403JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
404 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
405 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
406 the previous G, M, k.
407
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408JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
409 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
410 it was unset.
411
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412JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
413 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
414 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
415 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
416
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417JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
418 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
419
de6f74f2 420JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
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421 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
422 off past the nul-terimation.
423
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424JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
425 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
426 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
427 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
428 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
429
aa6e77af 430JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
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432JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
433 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
434 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
435 actually does fail.
436
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437AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
438 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
439
440JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
441 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
442 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
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444JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
445 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
446 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
447
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448JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
449 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
450
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c39c8870 455GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
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456 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
457 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
458 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
459 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
460 be defined in redis_servers.
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462GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
463 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
464
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465JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
466 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
467 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
468 extant use locations.
469
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470JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
471 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
472
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473JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
474 Previously only the last row was returned.
475
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476JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
477 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
478 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
479 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
480 input.
481
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482JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
483 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
484 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
485 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
486 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
487 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
488 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
489 Main pool for expansions.
490 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
491 active in the testsuite.
492 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
493
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494JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
495 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
496 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
497 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
498 round-robin DNS.
499
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500JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
501 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
502 failure response.
503
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504JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
505 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
506 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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507
508JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
509 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
510 ClamAV interface method is removed.
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512JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
513 rows affected is given instead).
514
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515JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
516 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
517
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518JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
519 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
520 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
521 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
522 for all multi-message initiating connections.
523
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524JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
525 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
526 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
527
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528JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
529 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
530 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
531 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
532 separate.
533
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534JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
535 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
536 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
537 fake-reject.
538
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539HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
540
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541JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
542 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
543
aab9a843 544PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 545 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 546 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 547
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548JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
549 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
550 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
551 and send a quit.
552
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553JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
554 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
555
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556JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
557 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
558 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
559
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560JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
561 for the build is renamed.
562
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563JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
564 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
565 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
566
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567JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
568 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
569 result replacing the original.
570
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571JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
572 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
573 and the resources needed to be freed.
574
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575JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
576
e6532c4a
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577JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
578 was not propagated.
579
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580JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
581 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
582 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
583 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
584
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585JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
586 length value. Previously this would segfault.
587
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588HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
589 newer versions of the scanner.
590
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591JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
592 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
593 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
594 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
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595 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
596 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
597 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
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599JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
600 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
601 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
602 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
603 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
604 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
605 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
606 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
607 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
608 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
609
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610JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
611 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
612
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613JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
614
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615HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
616 allows proper process termination in container environments.
617
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618JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
619 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
620
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621JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
622 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
623 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
624
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625JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
626 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
627 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
5add7dc4 628 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
857eaf37 629
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630JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
631 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
632 would be spooled.
633
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634PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
635 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
636
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637HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
638 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
639 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
640 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
641 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
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643JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
644 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
645 lines.
646
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647JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
648 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
649
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650PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
651 suffix list.
652
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653JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
654 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
655 "bare" representation.
656
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657JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
658 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
659 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
660 corrupted the output.
661
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666JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
667 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
668 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
669 pairs of long lines into single ones.
670
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671PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
672 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
673
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674JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
675 This permits better logging.
676
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677JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
678 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
679 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
680 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
681 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 682 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
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684JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
685 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
686 "exiwhat" output.
687
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688PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
689 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
690 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
691
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692JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
693 than 255 are no longer allowed.
694
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695JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
696 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
697 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
698 client, there is no benefit for these.
699 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
700 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
701 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
702 is used (3.2.4 +).
703
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704PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
705 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
706
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707JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
708 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
709 erroneously found still-pending ones.
710
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711JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
712 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
713
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714JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
715 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
716 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
717 signature and again for transmission.
718
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719JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
720 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 721 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
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723JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
724 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
725 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
726 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
727 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
728 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
729 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
730
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731JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
732 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
733 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 734 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
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736PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
737 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
738 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
739 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
740 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
741 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
742 processing options.
743
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744JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
745 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
746 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
747 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
748 connections.
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750PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
751 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
752 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
753 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
754 versions.
755
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756JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
757 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
758 inaccessible.
759
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760JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
761 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
762 banner-time rejection.
763
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764JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
765 callout/hold.
766
8e041ae0
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767PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
768 is the name of a transport.
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769 Fixes bug 2140.
770
35a04365
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771HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
772
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773JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
774 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
775
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776JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
777 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
778 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
779 during compilation.
780
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781JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
782 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
783 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 784 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 785
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786JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
787 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
788 initial verify call returned a defer.
789
ad1a76fe 790JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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791 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
792
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793JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
794 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
795
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796JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
797 if present. Previously it was ignored.
798
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799JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
800 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
801
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802JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
803 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
804 extensible.
805
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806PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
807 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
808
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809PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
810 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
811 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
812
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813JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
814 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
815 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
816 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
817
0768462d 818HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
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819 and confused the parent.
820
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821JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
822 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
823
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824JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
825 for log purposes.
826
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827JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
828 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
829 out-of-order delivery.
830
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831JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
832 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
833 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
834 error for the HELO.
835
e99a3a6c
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836JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
837 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
838 desynchronisation.
839
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840JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
841 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
842 one run was done. Bug 2189.
843
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844JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
845 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
846 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
847 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
848 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
849 message is still "Temporary local problem".
850
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851JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
852 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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853 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
854
855HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
856 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
857 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
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859JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
860 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
861 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
862 though a different problem.
863
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9427e879 868JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 869 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 870
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871JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
872
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873PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
874 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
875
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876JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
877 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
878
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879JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
880 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
881 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
882 before acknowledging the chunk.
883
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884PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
885 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
886 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
887
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888JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
889 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
890 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
891 should.
892
893JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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894 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
895 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 896
bd8fbe36 897JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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898 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
899
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900JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
901 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
902 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
903 body hash calculated value.
904
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905JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
906 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
907 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
908
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909JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
910
911JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
912 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
913
914JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
915 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
916 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
917
918JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
919 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
920 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
921 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
922 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
923 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
924
925JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
926 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
927 past that check, despite the cost.
928
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929JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
930 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
931 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
932
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933PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
934 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
935 TLS library to consume.
936
da88acae
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937PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
938
f6ef9370
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939PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
940
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941JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
942 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
943 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
944 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
945 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
946 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
947 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
948
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949PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
950
951PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
952
953PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
954 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
955 should be warning-free.
956
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957JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
958
959HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
960 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
961
d953610f
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962HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
963 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
964 general solution here.
965
7dc5f827
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966PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
967 already-broken messages in the queue.
968
4bb432cb
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969JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
970
3b1a84c8
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971JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
972
902fbd69 973
8d042305
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4c57a40e 976
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977JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
978 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 979
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980JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
981 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
982 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
983
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984JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
985 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
986 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
987 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
988 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
989 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
990 if one fails this test.
991 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
992 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
993
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994JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
995 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
996
23bb6982 997JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 998 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 999
0bd1b1ed 1000JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 1001 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 1002
20b9a2dc
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1003JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1004 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1005
05392bbc
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1006JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1007 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1008
1a6230a3
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1009JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1010
cfab9d68
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1011JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1012 certificate).
1013
98c82a3d
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1014JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1015 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1016 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1017 connection after a verify cache hit.
1018 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1019
1020JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1021 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1022
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1023JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1024 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1025 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1026 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1027 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1028
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1029JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1030 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1031
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1032JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1033 Previously they were not counted.
1034
ef3a1a30
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1035JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1036 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1037 that needed the lookup.
1038
4c04137d 1039JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
27b9e5f4
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1040 distinguished as "(=".
1041
1435d4b2
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1042JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1043 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1044
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1045JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1046
1047JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1048 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 1049
4c04137d 1050JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
72a201e2
TM
1051 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1052
1c788856
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1053JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1054 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1055 compatible.
1056
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1057JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1058 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1059 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1060 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1061
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1062JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1063
f59aaaaa 1064JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
2d009132
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1065 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1066 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 1067
d1f9fb42
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1068JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1069 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1070 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1071 be lost.
1072
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1073JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1074 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1075 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1076 itself :(
1077
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1078JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1079 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1080 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1081
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1082JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1083 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1084 options.
1085
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1086JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1087
317e40ac
PP
1088PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1089 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1090
8b0fb68e
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1091PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1092 are not in the system include path.
1093
ad7fc6eb 1094JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 1095 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
ad7fc6eb
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1096 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1097 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 1098
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1099JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1100 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1101 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1102
5ddc9771
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1103JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1104
8d73599f
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1105HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1106 an incoming connection.
1107
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1108HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1109 to rspamd.
1110
8e53a4fc
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1111HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1112 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 1113
87cb4a16 1114JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 1115 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
87cb4a16
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1116
1117
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1121JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1122 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1123 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1124 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 1125
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1126TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1127 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1128
ac881e27
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1129TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1130 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1131 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1132 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1133 outgoing I= field.
1134
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1135JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1136 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1137 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1138 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1139 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1140 check on the next write.
1141
f1b81d81
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1142HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1143 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1144 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1145 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1146 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1147
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1148JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1149 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1150
895fbaf2
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1151JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1152 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1153 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1154
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1155JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1156 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1157 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1158 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1159
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1160HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1161 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1162
4c04137d 1163JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
14b3c5bc
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1164 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1165
6f6dedcc
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1166JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1167 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1168 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1169 distinct.
1170
0f557e90
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1171JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1172
1173JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1174
ec0eb1a3
JH
1175JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1176
41e93589
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1177JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1178 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1179
98b98887 1180JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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1181 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1182
98b98887
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1183JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1184
858e91c2
JH
1185JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1186 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1187
1188JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1189
6ff55e50
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1190JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1191 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1192
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1193JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1194
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1195JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1196 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 1197 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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1198 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1199 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1200 they will retry in-clear.
1201 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1202 at installation time.
1203
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1204HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1205 with the $config_file variable.
1206
5ef5dd52
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1207JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1208 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1209 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1210 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 1211 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 1212
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1213GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1214 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1215 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1216 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1217 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1218
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1219JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1220
7f06582c
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1221JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1222 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1223 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1224 list order is no longer honoured.
1225
4c04137d 1226JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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1227 for DKIM processing.
1228
f0989ec0
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1229JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1230 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 1231
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1232JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1233 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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1234 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1235 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 1236
8c5d388a
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1237JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1238 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1239
2d8d625b
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1240JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1241 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1242
0cbf2b82
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1243JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1244 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1245
f2f2c91b
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1246JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1247
ce325893
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1248JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1249 cached by the daemon.
1250
de78e2d5
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1251JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1252 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1253
379ba7d0
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1254JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1255 keys are given for lookup.
1256
f444c2c7
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1257JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1258 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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1259 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1260 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 1261
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1262JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1263 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1264 server-side so match that on older versions.
1265
07c73177 1266JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 1267 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 1268 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 1269
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1270JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1271 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1272
1bc460a6
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1273JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1274 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1275 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 1276 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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1277 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1278 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1279 initial truncated version.
1280
ab9152ff 1281JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 1282
67e87fcf
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1283JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1284
ab9152ff
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1285JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1286 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1287
af483912
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1288JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1289
bc3c7bb7 1290HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 1291
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1292JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1293 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1294 induced overflows.
1295
59eaad2b
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1296JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1297 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1298 stage.
1299
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1300JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1301 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1302
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1303JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1304 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1305 former class.
1306
dfe7d917
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1307JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1308 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1309 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1310
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1311JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1312 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1313 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1314 extraction. Accept either.
1315
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1320JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1321 expanded.
1322
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1323JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1324
ad07e9ad
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1325JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1326 it.
1327
01a4a5c5 1328JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 1329 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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1330 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1331 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1332
cb1d7830 1333JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 1334 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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1335 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1336
610ff438 1337JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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1338 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1339 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1340 TLS connections
610ff438 1341
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1342JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1343 sites use this now.
1344
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1345JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1346 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1347 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1348 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1349 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1350
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1351JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1352 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 1353 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 1354
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1355JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1356
aeaf5db3
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1357JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1358 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1359
5032d1cf
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1360JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1361 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1362
7e8360e6
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1363JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1364 /defer_ok option.
1365
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1366JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1367 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1368
fd4d8871 1369JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 1370 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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1371 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1372
1373JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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1374 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1375 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 1376
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1377JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1378 timeout value per server.
1379
2ad78978
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1380JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1381 now have the list separator specified.
1382
8a512ed5 1383JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 1384 option values.
8a512ed5 1385
82c0c8ea 1386JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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1387 under OpenSSL.
1388
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JH
1389JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1390
82c0c8ea
JH
1391JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1392 rather than the verbs used.
1393
b980ed83
JH
1394JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1395 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1396
6c9ed72e
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1397JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1398
cfab9d68 1399HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 1400 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 1401
f846c8f5
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1402JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1403 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1404
fd4c285c
HSHR
1405HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1406 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1407
4c04137d 1408JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 1409
d2a2c69b
JH
1410JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1411
8241d8dd
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1412JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1413 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 1414 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
8241d8dd
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1415 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1416
1f12df4d
JH
1417JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1418
1f155f8e
JH
1419JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1420 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1421
1705dd20
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1422JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1423 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1424
038597d2
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1425JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1426
474f71bf
JH
1427JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1428
7137ca4b
JH
1429JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1430
dcb1095c
JH
1431JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1432 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1433
2f460950
JH
1434JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1435 added for tls authenticator.
1436
2f680c0c
HSHR
1437HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1438
9c695f6d 1439
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1441-----------------
4c57a40e 1442
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1443TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1444 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1445 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1446 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1447 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1448 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1449 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1450
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1451TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1452 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1453 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1454 function when detected.
1455
a9b8ec8b
JH
1456JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1457 cause callback expansion.
1458
6286d7c4
TL
1459TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1460 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1461 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1462 instead of bool when processing it.
1463
0f06b4f2 1464JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
d567a64d
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1465 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1466
be36e572
JH
1467JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1468
ac4ef9bd
JH
1469JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1470
0eb51736
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1471TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1472
c713ca4b
TL
1473TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1474 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 1475
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1476JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1477 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1478 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1479 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 1480 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
bd21a787
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1481 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1482
8bc732e8
JH
1483JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1484 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1485 exceeded it.
1486
a7fec7a7
JH
1487JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1488 version 3.3.6 or later.
1489
4c04137d 1490JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
774ef2d7
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1491 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1492 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 1493 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
723fe533
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1494 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1495 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1496 option is defined.
774ef2d7 1497
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1498TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1499 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1500
8d692470
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1501JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1502 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1503 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1504 matches.
1505
e9477a08
JH
1506JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1507 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1508 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1509
ad4c5ff9
JH
1510JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1511 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
8dea5edf
JH
1512
1513JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1514 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1515 syntax errors.
1516
3394b36a 1517JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
8dea5edf
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1518
1519JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1520 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1521
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1522TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1523 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1524 tarball.
1525
ad4c5ff9
JH
1526JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1527
4c04137d 1528JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
ad4c5ff9
JH
1529 Bug 1561.
1530
1531JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1532 output list separator was used.
1533
8bc732e8 1534
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1537TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1538 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1539 return.
1f0ebb98 1540
a612424f 1541JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1542 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
a612424f
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1543
1544JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1545
1546TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1547 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 1548
1f0ebb98 1549
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1551-----------------
1552
1553TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1554
1555 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1556 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1557 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1558 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1559 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1560 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1561
7245734e
TF
1562TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1563 utilities have not been installed.
1564
fd5dad68
JH
1565JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1566 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1567
5428a946
TL
1568TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1569 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1570
a3c86431
TL
1571TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1572 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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1573 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1574 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1575
aa26e137
JH
1576JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1577
5a1b8443
WB
1578TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1579 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1580
72c9e342
PP
1581PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1582 not dns_use_dnssec.
1583
76f44207
WB
1584JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1585
770747fd
MFM
1586TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1587 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1588 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1589
8ddef691 1590TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
982650ec
TL
1591 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1592 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1593 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1594 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1595 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1596
b9c2e32f
AR
1597JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1598
e45a1c37
JH
1599JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1600 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1601
67d81c10
JH
1602JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1603 failed delivery.
1604
b1f8e4f8
JH
1605JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1606
511a6c14 1607JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
JH
1608
1609JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1610 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1611
51c7471d
JH
1612JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1613 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1614
3695be34
TL
1615TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1616
1e06383a
TL
1617JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1618
76146973
JH
1619JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1620 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1621
1622 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1623 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1624 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1625
8c8b8274
TL
1626TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1627 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1628 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1629 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1630
35aba663
JH
1631JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1632
8c51eead 1633JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
578897ea
JH
1634 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1635 lookup).
8c51eead 1636
deae092e
HS
1637TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1638 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1639 Schlichting.
35aba663 1640
fd3b6a4a 1641JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1642 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1643
8d91c6dc
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1644TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1645 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1646
2b4a568d
JH
1647JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1648
d2af03f4
HS
1649TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1650 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1651 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1652
9d1c15ef
JH
1653JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1654 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1655
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JH
1656JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1657 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
6a8a60e0
JH
1658 hosts_request_ocsp.
1659
ed3bba5f 1660JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1661 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1662 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1663
8ccd00b1
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1664JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1665
8ded8589
TL
1666TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1667 Christian Aistleitner.
1668
f2de3a33
JH
1669JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1670
6eb02f88
TL
1671TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1672 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1673
00bff6f6
JH
1674JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1675 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1676
071c51f7
JH
1677JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1678 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1679
a6d4c44e
TF
1680TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1681 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1682
3ae173e7
ACK
1683TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1684 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1685
c13d09b8
TL
1686TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1687 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1688 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1689
0df4ab80
JH
1690JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1691
66be95e0
PP
1692PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1693 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1694 Jasper Wallace.
1695
1bd0d12b
JH
1696JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1697
0de7239e
TL
1698TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1699 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1700 CVE-2014-2972
1701
fd3b6a4a 1702
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1705
1706PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1707
12f69989
PP
1708PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1709 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1710
54c90be1
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1711PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1712 by GnuTLS.
1713
1f4a55da
PP
1714PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1715 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1716 routines.
1717
13363eba 1718PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1719
66645890 1720PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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1721 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1722 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1723 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1724 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1725
a3fb9793 1726PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
f4ee74ac
PP
1727 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1728 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1729 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1730 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1731 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1732
d27f98fe 1733TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1734
6822b909
TL
1735TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1736
e7568d51
TL
1737TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1738 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1739
ae0e32ee 1740TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1741 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1742 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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1743
1744TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1745
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TL
1746TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1747
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1748TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1749 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1750
976b7e9f
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1751JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1752
be4a1376
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1753JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1754
ec4b68e5
PP
1755PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1756
d7148a07
NM
1757NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1758 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1759
585121e2 1760JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1761
2519e60d
TL
1762PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1763 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1764 function.
a5f239e4 1765
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PP
1766PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1767 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1768
bef3ea7f
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1769JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1770 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1771 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1772
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JH
1773JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1774
3a796370
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1775JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1776
ea722490 1777JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
PP
1778 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1779
b1b05573
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1780JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1781 Bugzilla 884.
1782
362145b5
JH
1783JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1784 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1785
3c0a92dc
JH
1786JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1787 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1788
6d7c6175
PP
1789PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1790 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1791 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1792
6f123593
JH
1793JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1794 authenticators.
1795
c8e2fc1e
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1796JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1797 for control.
1798
005ac57f
PP
1799PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1800
3f1df0e3
PP
1801PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1802 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1803 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1804 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1805
67bd1ab3
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1806TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1807
1808 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1809 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1810 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1811 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1812 the retry rules.
1813
1814 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1815 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1816 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1817
1818 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1819 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1820 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1821 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1822
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1823 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1824 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1825 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1826 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1827 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1828 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1829 delivery, as in LMTP.
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1830
1831 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1832 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1833
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TF
1834TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1835
1836 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1837
1838 Resent-From: f
1839
1840 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1841 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1842 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1843 username as equal to the username.
1844
1845 This change corrects that bug.
1846
f62514b3
GF
1847GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1848 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1849 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1850
eb505532
TF
1851TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1852
14c7b357
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1853PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1854 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1855 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1856 NULL dereference and crash.
1857
94eaf700
PP
1858JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1859
6f5a440a
PP
1860PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1861 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1862 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1863
514ee161
SC
1864SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1865
fd98a5c6
JH
1866JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1867 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1868 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1869 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1870 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1871 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1872 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1873 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1874 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1875 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1876 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1877
035c7f1e
PP
1878PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1879 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1880
ff284120
PP
1881PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1882 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1883 Bugzilla 880.
1884
26e72755
PP
1885PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1886 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1887 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1888 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1889 an empty string is now equivalent.
1890
0fbd9bff
PP
1891PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1892 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1893 not performing validation itself.
1894
700d22f3
PP
1895PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1896 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1897
fcc8e047
JH
1898JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1899 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1900
4c04137d 1901TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1902
8c020188
PP
1903PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1904 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1905 other false fix of the same issue.
1906 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1907 Bugzilla 1363.
1908
d13cdd30
PP
1909PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1910 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1911
e2fbf4a2
PP
1912PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1913 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1914 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1915
f4c1088b
PP
1916PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1917 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1918 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1919
c5c2182f
PP
1920TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1921
73431ca9
JH
1922JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1923
2d07a215
TL
1924TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1925 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1926
a30a8861
TL
1927TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1928 Alexander Miroch.
1929
33382dd9
TL
1930TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1931 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1932 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1933 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1934 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1935
046172e6
TL
1936TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1937 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1938
581d7bee 1939TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1940 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1941 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1942
1943TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1944 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1945 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1946 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1947
237b2cf2
TL
1948TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1949
9fc5a352
TL
1950TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1951 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1952 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1953
b10e4ec2
TL
1954TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1955
e2cebd74
TL
1956TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1957 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1958 interaction.
1959
1960TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1961 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1962
2519e60d
TL
1963TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1964 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1965
e78e6ecf 1966
4263f395
PP
1967Exim version 4.80.1
1968-------------------
1969
1970PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1971 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1972 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1973
ea722490 1974
b1770b6e 1975Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1976-----------------
1977
1978PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1979 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1980 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1981
23c7e742
NM
1982NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1983
b322aac8
NM
1984NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1985 improved.
1986
4a891427
NM
1987NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1988
c1e794ba 1989PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1990
97753960
PP
1991PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1992
1993PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1994 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1995
df6303fa
PP
1996PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1997 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1998
7e6a8985
PP
1999PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2000 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2001
f1e05cc7 2002PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
2003 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2004 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 2005
4c287009
PP
2006PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2007
b98bb9ac
PP
2008PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2009 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2010
4a6a987a
PP
2011PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2012
c45dd180 2013PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 2014
7db8d074
PP
2015PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2016 non-compliant senders.
2017 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2018
eae0036b 2019NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 2020 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
2021 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2022
dec5017e
PP
2023PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2024 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2025 in spool file corruption.
2026
c80c5570
PP
2027PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2028 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2029 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2030 "Got SSL error 2".
2031
076b11e2
PP
2032TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2033 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2034 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2035
5407bfff
JH
2036JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2037 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2038
9e45c72b
PP
2039JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2040
e74376d8
PP
2041PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2042 diagnostics.
2043 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2044
4c04137d 2045PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
2046 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2047 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2048
7be682ca
PP
2049PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2050 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
2051 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2052 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 2053
ef840681
PP
2054PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2055 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2056
5bfb4cdf
PP
2057PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2058 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2059 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2060 resolver implementation change.
2061
c6e95d22
PP
2062PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2063 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2064
9cbad13b
PP
2065PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2066
9ee44efb
PP
2067PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2068
6a6084f8
PP
2069PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2070 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2071
12dd53c7
PP
2072PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2073 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2074
9e45c72b 2075JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
2076 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2077
17c76198
PP
2078PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2079 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2080 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2081 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 2082 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 2083
53947857 2084PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 2085
eae0036b 2086PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
2087 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2088 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 2089
9e45c72b 2090JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 2091
7390e768
PP
2092PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2093 read-only, out of scope).
2094 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2095
08488c86
PP
2096PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2097 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2098 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2099 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2100
6475bd82
PP
2101PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2102
81f91683
PP
2103PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2104 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2105 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2106 real issues in debug logging.
2107
5779e6aa
PP
2108PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2109 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2110
3375e053
PP
2111PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2112 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2113 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2114
2115PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2116 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
2117 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2118 problems.
3375e053 2119
9d26b8c0
PP
2120PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2121 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2122
57eb9e91 2123PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
2124 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2125 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2126 needs to override this, it can.
2127
16880d1a
PP
2128PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2129 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2130 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2131
a799883d
PP
2132PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2133 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2134 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2135 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2136
3ecab157 2137PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 2138
0599f9cf 2139
867fcbf5
PP
2140Exim version 4.77
2141-----------------
2142
2143PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2144 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2145
f1a29782
TF
2146TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2147
ab42bd23
TK
2148TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2149 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 2150
0ca0cf52
TF
2151TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2152 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2153
921b12ca
TF
2154TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2155 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2156 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2157
2158 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2159 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2160 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2161 not safe for signals.
2162
2163 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2164 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2165 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2166 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2167 exiwhat.
2168
c99ce5c9
TF
2169TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2170
2171 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2172 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2173 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2174 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 2175 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
2176
2177 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2178 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2179 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2180 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2181 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2182 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2183
2184 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2185 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2186 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2187 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2188
2189 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2190 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2191 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2192 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2193
2194 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2195 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2196 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2197 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2198 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2199 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2200 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2201 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2202 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2203
2204 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2205 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2206 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2207 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2208
2209 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2210 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2211 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2212 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2213 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2214 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2215 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2216 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2217 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2218 details in the main documentation.
2219
3634fc25
TF
2220TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2221
792e8a19
TF
2222TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2223
5901f0ab
TF
2224TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2225 repository when doing development or release builds.
2226
7f2a2a43
PP
2227PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2228 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 2229
061b7ebd
PP
2230PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2231 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2232 Bugzilla 97.
2233
e12f8c32
PP
2234PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2235
9e949f00 2236PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
2237 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2238
2239PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2240 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 2241
555ae6af 2242PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
2243 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2244
2245PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2246 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 2247
6f7fe114
PP
2248PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2249 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2250
c566dd90
PP
2251PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2252 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
2253 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2254 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 2255
d6cc7c78 2256PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
2257 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2258 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2259
0d0e4455
PP
2260PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2261
3399bb60 2262PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
2263
2264PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2265 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2266
0ca0cf52 2267
10906672
PP
2268Exim version 4.76
2269-----------------
2270
2271PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2272
754a0503
PP
2273PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2274 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2275
c0c7b2da
PP
2276PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2277
e97d1f08
PP
2278PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2279
084c1d8c
PP
2280PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2281 Bugzilla 1098.
2282
4e7ee012
PP
2283PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2284 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 2285
c8d52a00
PP
2286TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2287 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2288
54e7ce4a
PP
2289PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2290 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2291
5ee6f336
PP
2292PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2293 Bugzilla 1104.
2294
c8d52a00 2295TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
2296 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2297
2298TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2299 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2300 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2301 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2302
2303PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2304 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 2305
10906672 2306
aa097c4c
NM
2307Exim version 4.75
2308-----------------
2309
4c04137d 2310NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
2311 Bugzilla 1073
2312
7f3d9eff
TF
2313TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2314 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2315 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2316
159f52d2
TF
2317TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2318 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2319
0cc9542a
PP
2320PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2321 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2322 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2323
f7274286
PP
2324PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2325 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2326
7b797365
PP
2327PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2328 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2329
caacae52
NM
2330NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2331 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2332
09dcaba9
NM
2333NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2334 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2335
bc19a55b
PP
2336PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2337 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 2338
bd4c9759
NM
2339NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2340 Fixes bug 943.
2341
b72aab72
PP
2342PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2343 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2344
2fe76745
PP
2345PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2346 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2347
76aa570c
PP
2348PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2349 SQL string expansion failure details.
2350 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2351
f1e5fef5
PP
2352PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2353 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2354
4d805ee9
PP
2355PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2356 extern declarations in function scope.
2357 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2358
cd59ab18
PP
2359PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2360 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2361 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2362 a kernel bug).
2363
332f5cf3
PP
2364PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2365 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2366
29cfeb94
PP
2367PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2368 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2369
660242ad
PP
2370PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2371 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2372
bc4bc4c5
PP
2373PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2374 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2375
2e64baa9
NM
2376NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2377 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2378 Dennis Davis.
2379
4c04137d 2380PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 2381
6bac1a9a
PP
2382PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2383
552193f0
NM
2384NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2385 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 2386
1b587e48
TF
2387TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2388 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2389
aa097c4c 2390
8c07b69f
TF
2391Exim version 4.74
2392-----------------
2393
2394TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2395 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2396
c0ea85ab
TF
2397TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2398 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2399
0761d44e
TF
2400TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2401
0a349494
PP
2402DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2403 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2404 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2405
2406PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2407 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2408 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2409
fea24b2e
PP
2410PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2411 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2412 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2413 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2414
6545de78
PP
2415PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2416 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2417 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2418 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2419
1670ef10
PP
2420PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2421 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2422 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2423 arbitrary files.
2424
c0886197
PP
2425PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2426 (Wolfgang Breyha)
2427
b7487bce
PP
2428PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2429 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2430 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2431 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2432 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2433
8c07b69f 2434
97fd1e48 2435Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 2436-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
2437
2438PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2439 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2440 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2441
6901c596
PP
2442PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2443 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2444
a8c8d6b5
JJ
2445JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2446
77bb000f
PP
2447PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2448
a29e5231
PP
2449PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2450
ec5a0394 2451PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 2452
55c75993
PP
2453PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2454
453a6645 2455PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
2456 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2457 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
2458 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2459
8544e77a
PP
2460PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2461 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2462 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
2463 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2464 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 2465
83e029d5
PP
2466PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2467
ed7f7860
PP
2468PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2469
7d9f747b
PP
2470PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2471
4b2241d2
PP
2472PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2473
10385c15
PP
2474PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2475
dbc4b90d
PP
2476PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2477
532be449
PP
2478PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2479
6a8de854 2480PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
2481 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2482 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 2483
5dc43717
JJ
2484JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2485
2486JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2487 "exim" to be used
55c75993 2488
3346ab01
PP
2489PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2490 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2491
491fab4c
PP
2492PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2493 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2494 Notification from John Horne.
2495
13eb9497
PP
2496PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2497 compatible.
2498
2499PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2500 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2501 it normally works.
2502
7f36d675
DW
2503DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2504 access.
2505
c1d94452
DW
2506DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2507 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2508 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2509
e2f5dc15
DW
2510DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2511 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2512 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2513 configuration file.
2514
cd25e41d
DW
2515DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2516 option (effectively making it always true).
2517
261dc43e
DW
2518DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2519 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2520
fa32850b
DW
2521DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2522 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2523
79d4bc3d
PP
2524PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2525 run-time user, instead of root.
2526
43236f35 2527PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2528 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2529
fb08281f
DW
2530DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2531 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2532 arguments.
3346ab01 2533
74935b98
DW
2534DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2535 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2536 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2537
90b6341f
DW
2538DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2539
57730b52
ML
2540NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2541
66581d1e 2542
465e92cf
JJ
2543Exim version 4.72
2544-----------------
2545
453a6645
PP
2546JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2547 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2548 typos
465e92cf 2549
453a6645
PP
2550JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2551 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2552 (Finput)
edae0343 2553
9bd3e22c
NM
2554NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2555 Patch from Alain Williams
2556
bb576ff7
NM
2557NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2558
5a1a5845
NM
2559NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2560 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2561
981a9fad
NM
2562NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2563 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2564
7fc497ee
NM
2565NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2566
1a41defa
JJ
2567JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2568
a466095c 2569NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2570 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2571
94a6bd0b
NM
2572TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2573
2574TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2575
2576MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2577 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2578 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2579
c1b141a8
NM
2580NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2581 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2582
b26eacf1 2583NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2584 Patch by Simon Arlott
2585
179c5980 2586PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2587 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2588
9bd3e22c 2589
7c6d71af
NM
2590Exim version 4.71
2591-----------------
2592
7d9f747b 2593TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2594
f013fb92
NM
2595NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2596
0eb8eedd
NM
2597NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2598
663ee6d9
NM
2599NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2600
177ebd9b
NM
2601NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2602
7c6d71af 2603
210f147e
NM
2604Exim version 4.70
2605-----------------
2606
cdd3bb85 2607TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2608 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2609
2610TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2611 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2612 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2613
2614TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2615 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2616 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2617
2618TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2619 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2620
210f147e
NM
2621NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2622 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2623 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2624 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2625
deafd5b3
NM
2626NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2627 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2628 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2629
089793a4
TF
2630TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2631
5f16ca82
TF
2632TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2633
dae9d94e 2634NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2635 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2636
7d9f747b 2637NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2638
06864c44
TF
2639TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2640 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2641 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2642 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2643
65a7d8c3 2644NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2645 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2646
23510047 2647TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2648
7d9f747b 2649NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2650
7d8eec3a 2651NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2652 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2653
89dec7b6
TF
2654TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2655 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2656
a99de90c
TF
2657TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2658 that they are available at delivery time.
2659
e2803e40
TF
2660TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2661
7199e1ee
TF
2662TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2663 incoming_port log selectors.
2664
e276e04b
TF
2665TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2666 setting expands to an empty string.
2667
ce552449 2668NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2669 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2670
e765a0f1 2671NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2672 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2673
4f054c63 2674NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2675 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2676
7d9f747b
PP
2677NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2678 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2679
7d9f747b
PP
2680NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2681 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2682
b52bc06e 2683NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2684 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2685
447de4b0
NM
2686NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2687
4c69d561 2688NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2689 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2690
d5c39246 2691NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2692 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2693
0b23848a
TK
2694TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2695
8f3414a1 2696NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2697 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2698
fb6f955d
NM
2699NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2700
2701NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2702
7d9f747b
PP
2703NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2704 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2705
7d9f747b
PP
2706NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2707 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2708
7d9f747b
PP
2709NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2710 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2711
7d9f747b
PP
2712NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2713 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2714
7d9f747b
PP
2715NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2716 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2717
7d9f747b
PP
2718NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2719 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2720
7d9f747b
PP
2721NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2722 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2723
7d9f747b 2724NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2725 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2726
7d9f747b 2727NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2728
7d9f747b
PP
2729NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2730 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2731
7d9f747b 2732NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2733
7d9f747b 2734NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2735
7d9f747b 2736NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2737
7d9f747b 2738NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2739
17792b53 2740NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2741 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2742
7d9f747b
PP
2743NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2744 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2745
91576cec 2746NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2747 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2748
7d9f747b
PP
2749NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2750 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2751
7d9f747b 2752NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2753
7d9f747b 2754NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2755
7d9f747b 2756NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2757
7d9f747b 2758NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2759
deafd5b3 2760
47db1125
NM
2761Exim version 4.69
2762-----------------
2763
4b3504d0
TK
2764TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2765 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2766 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2767
2768 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2769 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2770 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2771 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2772 build errors in sieve.c.
2773
81ea09ca
NM
2774NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2775 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2776 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2777
f13cddcb
SC
2778SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2779
7d9f747b 2780NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2781
7d9f747b 2782NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2783
7d9f747b 2784NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2785
2786
eb4c0de6
PH
2787Exim version 4.68
2788-----------------
2789
2790PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2791
6a3bceb1
PH
2792PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2793 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2794 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2795 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2796 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2797 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2798 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2799 for iplsearch lookups.
2800
2801 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2802 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2803 previously such lookups could never work.
2804
4c04137d 2805 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2806 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2807 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2808
2e30fa9d
TK
2809TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2810 version.
2811
0806a9c5
MH
2812MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2813 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2814 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2815 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2816 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2817 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2818
ae276964
TK
2819TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2820 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2821
0f2cbd1b
MH
2822MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2823 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2824 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2825 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2826 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2827 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2828
2b85bce7
PH
2829PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2830 local_scan API.
2831
93655c46
PH
2832PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2833
6c512171
PH
2834PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2835 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2836 encrypted.
2837
2838PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2839 by clients under certain conditions.
2840
aa6dc513
PH
2841PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2842 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2843
a96603a0
PH
2844PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2845
8f240103
PH
2846PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2847 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2848
2849PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2850
d677b2f2
PH
2851PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2852
d52120f2
PH
2853PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2854
64f2600a
PH
2855PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2856 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2857
8669f003
PH
2858PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2859
a4dc33a8
PH
2860PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2861 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2862
d6a60c0f
PH
2863PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2864
8f128379
PH
2865PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2866
8932dffe
PH
2867PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2868 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2869 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2870 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2871
ddea74fa 2872PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2873 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2874 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2875
ddea74fa 2876PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2877 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2878
ddea74fa
PH
2879PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2880
ce9f225c
PH
2881PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2882
19897d52
PH
2883PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2884
bc64a74d
PH
2885PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2886 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2887 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2888
eb4c0de6 2889
b4ed4da0
PH
2890Exim version 4.67
2891-----------------
2892
22ad45c9
MH
2893MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2894 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2895 Jan Srzednicki.
2896
b4ed4da0
PH
2897PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2898 issue a MAIL command.
2899
431b7361
PH
2900PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2901
2902 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2903
2904 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2905 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2906 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2907 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2908 item. This has been fixed.
2909
2910PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2911 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2912
83da1223
PH
2913PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2914 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2915
54fc8428
PH
2916PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2917 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2918 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2919
34c5e8dd
SC
2920SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2921
bbe15da8
PH
2922PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2923 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2924 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2925 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2926 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2927
0e8a9471
MH
2928MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2929 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2930 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2931
f0872424
PH
2932PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2933 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2934 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2935 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2936
b01dd148
PH
2937PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2938
6bf342e1
PH
2939PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2940
273f34d0
PH
2941PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2942 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2943 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2944 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2945 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2946
cf8b11a5
PH
2947PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2948
41c7c167
PH
2949PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2950 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2951 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2952 values).
2953
9c57cbc0
PH
2954PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2955
f3f065bb
PH
2956PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2957
047bdd8c
PH
2958PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2959
0ce9abe6
PH
2960PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2961
0e22dfd1
PH
2962PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2963
4c590bd1
PH
2964PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2965 no_callout_flush is set.
2966
09945f1e
PH
2967PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2968 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2969 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2970 fixed.
2971
c51b8e75
PH
2972PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2973
e28326d8 2974PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2975 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2976 other ACL rejections are.
2977
75b1493f
PH
2978PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2979 with slight modification.
2980
7c5214ec
PH
2981PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2982 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2983
4311097e
PH
2984PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2985 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2986 connection.
2987
29f89cad
PH
2988PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2989 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2990
5e687460
SC
2991SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2992
c3611384
PH
2993PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2994 expansion side effects.
2995
5a11a7b4
PH
2996PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2997 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2998 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2999 be the same.
3000
0e20aff9
MH
3001MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3002 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3003 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3004
ca86f471
PH
3005PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3006 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3007 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3008 were accidentally chopped off.
3009
a14e5636
PH
3010PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3011 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3012 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3013 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3014 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3015 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3016 pipelining has not been advertised.
3017
ec95d1a6
PH
3018PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3019
42855d71
PH
3020PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3021 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3022 This has been fixed.
3023
57c2c631
PH
3024PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3025 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3026 reported on Solaris.
3027
58c01c94
PH
3028PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3029 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3030 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3031 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3032 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3033 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3034 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3035
dee5a20a
PH
3036PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3037 cpus.
3038
d2ee6114
PH
3039PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3040
b2d5182b
PH
3041PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3042
79749a79
PH
3043PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3044 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
3045 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3046 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3047 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3048 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 3049
c456d9bb
PH
3050PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3051 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3052 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3053 host_all_ignored option.
3054
cd9868ec
PH
3055PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3056 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3057 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3058 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3059 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3060 is what is supposed to happen).
3061
ebeaf996
PH
3062PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3063 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3064 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3065 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3066 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3067 uses the Exim user.
3068
2679d413
PH
3069PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3070 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3071 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3072 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3073 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3074 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3075 users.
3076
84024b72
PH
3077PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3078
8005d38e
SC
3079SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3080 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3081 (Jez Hancock).
3082 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3083 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3084
3298c6c6
SC
3085SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3086
a43a27c5
PH
3087PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3088
58eb016e 3089PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
3090 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3091 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3092 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3093 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3094 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3095 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3096 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 3097 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
3098 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3099 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 3100
b43a74ea
PH
3101PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3102 advertised in response to EHLO.
3103
b4ed4da0 3104
5dd1517f
PH
3105Exim version 4.66
3106-----------------
3107
3108PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3109 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3110
3111 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3112 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3113
3114 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3115 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3116 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3117
3118 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3119 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3120 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3121 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3122 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3123
3124
93cfa765
TK
3125Exim version 4.65
3126-----------------
3127
3128TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3129 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3130 versions. (#438)
3131
d6066548
MH
3132MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3133 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3134 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3135
4362ff0d
PH
3136PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3137 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3138 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3139 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3140 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3141 rather than extend the field.
3142
93cfa765 3143
944e9e9c
TF
3144Exim version 4.64
3145-----------------
aa41d2de 3146
21d74bd9
TK
3147TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3148 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3149 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3150 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3151 these files.
3152
3153TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3154 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3155 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3156
3157TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3158 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3159 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
3160
3161TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3162 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3163 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3164 in the field name.
3165
2b1c6e3a
PH
3166PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3167 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3168 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3169 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3170 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3171 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3172 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3173 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3174 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3175 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3176 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3177
1f872c80
PH
3178PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3179 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
3180
3181PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3182 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3183 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3184 ignores EPIPE as well.
3185
d203e649
PH
3186PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3187 (quoted-printable decoding).
3188
cc2ed8f7 3189PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 3190 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 3191
ddfcd446
PH
3192PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3193
d45b1de8
PH
3194PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3195
3196PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3197
38a0a95f 3198PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 3199 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 3200
a2405d83
JJ
3201JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3202 in 4.64-PH/09.
3203
3204JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3205 miscellaneous code fixes
3206
6ea85e9a
PH
3207PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3208 rejections.
3209
26da7e20
PH
3210PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3211 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3212 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3213 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3214 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3215 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3216 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3217 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 3218
14aa5a05 3219PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 3220 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
3221 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3222 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3223 function.
3224 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3225 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3226 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3227 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3228 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3229 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3230 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3231 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3232 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3233
ff75a1f7
PH
3234PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3235 decoding.
3236
e6f6568e
PH
3237PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3238 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3239 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3240 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3241 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3242 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3243 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3244 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3245
d6f6e0dc
PH
3246PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3247 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3248 list.
3249
322050c2
PH
3250PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3251 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3252 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3253 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3254 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3255 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3256 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3257 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3258 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3259 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3260 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3261 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3262 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3263
08955dd3
PH
3264PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3265 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3266 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3267 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3268 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3269 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3270 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3271
1eccaa59
PH
3272PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3273 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3274 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3275 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3276 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3277 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3278 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3279 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3280 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3281 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3282
602e59e5
PH
3283PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3284 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3285 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3286 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3287 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3288
411ef850
PH
3289PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3290 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3291 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3292 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3293 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3294 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3295 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3296
7befa435
PH
3297PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3298 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3299 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3300 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3301 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3302 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3303 been verified.
3304
48da4259 3305PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
3306 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3307 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3308 and authorization.)
3309
48da4259
PH
3310PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3311 if any retry times were supplied.
3312
d1d5595c
PH
3313PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3314 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3315 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3316
0ef732d9
PH
3317PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3318
328895cc
PH
3319PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3320
fd700877
PH
3321PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3322 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3323 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3324 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
3325 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3326 before) are ignored.
fd700877 3327
8dce1a6f
PH
3328PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3329 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3330
17af4a17
PH
3331PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3332 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3333 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
3334
3335PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3336 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3337 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3338 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3339 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3340 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3341 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3342 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3343 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3344
3345 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3346 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3347 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3348 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3349 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3350 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3351 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3352 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3353 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3354
3355 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3356 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3357 hammering the server.
3358
c1114884
PH
3359PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3360 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3361
7a0743eb
PH
3362PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3363
0d85fa3f
PH
3364PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3365 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3366 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3367
1bf43b78
PH
3368PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3369 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3370 one case where this was not true.
3371
520de300
PH
3372PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3373 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3374 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3375 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3376 fails.
3377
48c7f9e2
PH
3378PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3379 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3380 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3381 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 3382 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
3383 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3384 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3385 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3386 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3387 smtp transport.
3388
99ea1c86
PH
3389PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3390 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3391 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3392 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3393
a2042e78
PH
3394PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3395 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3396
4fbcfc2e
PH
3397PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3398 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3399 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3400
aa41d2de
PH
3401PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3402
af561417
PH
3403PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3404
3cc66b45
PH
3405PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3406
194cc0e4
PH
3407PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3408 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3409 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3410 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3411
a401ddaa
PH
3412PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3413 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3414
4e88a19f
PH
3415PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3416 be meaningful with "accept".
3417
d7d7b289
SC
3418SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3419 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3420
3421SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3422 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3423 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3424
3425SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3426 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3427 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3428 there is data to show.
3429 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3430
3431SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3432 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3433 as well as the number of messages.
3434
3435SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3436 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3437 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3438
3439SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3440 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3441 have a flag are now skipped.
3442
3443SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3444 Added the -emptyok flag.
3445
3446SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3447 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3448
0ea2a468
JJ
3449JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3450 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 3451 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
3452
3453JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3454 match 4.64-PH/13
3455
3456JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3457 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3458
3459JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3460
3461JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3462 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3463
8a10f5a4
PH
3464PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3465
30e18802
PH
3466PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3467 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3468 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3469 contravention of the specifications.
3470
55728a4f
PH
3471PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3472 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3473 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 3474
d7837193
PH
3475PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3476 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3477 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3478
87054a31
PH
3479PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3480
ea2c01d2
MH
3481MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3482 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3483 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3484 some point in the past.
3485
e4fa6968
PH
3486PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3487 transport during callout processing was broken.
3488
56f5d9bd
PH
3489PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3490 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3491
922e1c28
PH
3492PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3493 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3494
21eb6e72
PH
3495PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3496 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3497
a0540757
PH
3498PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3499
944e9e9c 3500
478be7b0
SC
3501Exim version 4.63
3502-----------------
3503
3504SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3505 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3506
3507SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3508 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3509 there is data to show.
3510 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3511
3512SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3513 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3514
2b965a65
TF
3515TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3516 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3517
45b91596
PH
3518TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3519 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3520
c59f5781
TF
3521TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3522 submissions from trusted users.
3523
90fc3069
TF
3524TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3525 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3526
6083aca0
TF
3527TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3528 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3529 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3530 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3531 there is now a framework to start from.
3532
765b530f
PH
3533PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3534 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3535 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3536
4e167a8c
PH
3537PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3538
4608d683
PH
3539PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3540
b8dc3e4a
PH
3541PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3542
5418e93b
PH
3543PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3544 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3545 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3546
b4a9bda2
PH
3547PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3548 libradius.
3549
45b91596
PH
3550PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3551 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3552 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3553
5547e2c5
PH
3554PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3555 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3556 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3557 its arguments.
3558
dbcef0ea
PH
3559PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3560 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3561 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3562 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3563 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3564
25257489
PH
3565PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3566 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3567
c816d124
PH
3568PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3569
a9ccd69a
PH
3570PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3571 operations in malware.c.
3572
75fa1910
PH
3573PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3574 signatures.
3575
a7d7aa58
PH
3576PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3577 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3578 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3579 all.
3580
42119b09
PH
3581PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3582 statements to "add_header".
3583
41609df5
PH
3584PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3585 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3586
a5bd321b
PH
3587PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3588 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3589 latter.
3590
e85a7ad5 3591PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3592 so that it is now:
3593
e85a7ad5
PH
3594 ${if or { \
3595 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3596 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3597 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3598 }{no}{yes}}
3599
e85a7ad5
PH
3600 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3601 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3602
d8fe1c03
PH
3603PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3604 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3605
16282d2b
PH
3606PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3607 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3608 any possible encoding problems.
3609
35d40a98
PH
3610PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3611 but not after initializing Perl.
3612
034d99ab
PH
3613PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3614 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3615 apparently, which is not desirable.
3616
6ec97b1b
PH
3617PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3618 queries.
3619
e22ca4ac
JJ
3620JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3621 --not options
3622
3623JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3624
33d73e3b
PH
3625PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3626 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3627 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3628 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3629
9ecb03f3
PH
3630PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3631 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3632 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3633
084efe8d
PH
3634PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3635 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3636 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3637 0.12.
3638
366fc9f0
PH
3639PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3640 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3641 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3642 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3643 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3644
c59f5781 3645
c887c79e
TF
3646Exim version 4.62
3647-----------------
3648
3649TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3650 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3651
1cce3af8
PH
3652PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3653 patch).
3654
afb3eaaf
PH
3655PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3656 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3657 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3658 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3659 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3660 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3661 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3662 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3663 451 error is used.
3664
e173618b
PH
3665PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3666
dd16e114
PH
3667PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3668 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3669 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3670
f7fd3850
PH
3671PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3672 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3673 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3674 odd errors.
3675
d87df92c
PH
3676PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3677 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3678
7e9f683d
PH
3679PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3680 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3681 option (which defaults to 0600).
3682
bfad5236
PH
3683PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3684
01c490df
PH
3685PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3686 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3687 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3688 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3689 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3690 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3691 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3692
d6629cdc
PH
3693PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3694
1cce3af8 3695
214e2000
PH
3696Exim version 4.61
3697-----------------
3698
3699PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3700 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3701 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3702 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3703 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3704 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3705 addresses as local.
3706
f9daeae0
PH
3707PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3708 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3709
7e66e54d
PH
3710PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3711
c8ea1597
PH
3712PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3713 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3714 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3715 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3716 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3717 grumble.
3718
911f6fde
PH
3719PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3720 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3721
47ca6d6c
PH
3722PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3723 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3724 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3725 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3726 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3727
ed0e9820
PH
3728PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3729 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3730 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3731 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3732
eff37e47
PH
3733PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3734 be the same on different OS.
3735
1921d2ea
PH
3736PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3737 testing.
3738
b3f69ca8
JJ
3739JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3740 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3741
3742JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3743 in 4.61-PH/06
3744
424a1c63
PH
3745PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3746 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3747 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3748 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3749 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3750 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3751 bounce message.
3752
7a100415
PH
3753PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3754 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3755 when Exim was called.
3756
19b9dc85
PH
3757PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3758 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3759
309bd837
PH
3760PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3761 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3762 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3763 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3764
59e82a2a
PH
3765PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3766 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3767 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3768 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3769 changes:
3770
3771 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3772 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3773 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3774
3775 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3776 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3777 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3778
9edc04ce
PH
3779PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3780 feature).
3781
1349e1e5
PH
3782PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3783 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3784 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3785 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3786 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3787 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3788 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3789 values from the SRV records were lost.
3790
ea49d0e1
PH
3791PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3792 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3793 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3794
064a94c9
PH
3795PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3796 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3797 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3798
727071f8
PH
3799PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3800 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3801 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3802 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3803 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3804 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3805 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3806 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3807 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3808 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3809
f78eb7c6
PH
3810PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3811 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3812 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3813
21c28500
PH
3814PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3815 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3816
3817PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3818 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3819 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3820 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3821 is given.
3822
1688f43b
PH
3823PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3824 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3825 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3826
3827PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3828 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3829 PH/23 above applies.
3830
9675b384
PH
3831PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3832 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3833 (for which there is an explicit test).
3834
6a3f1455
PH
3835PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3836
dac79d3e
PH
3837PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3838 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3839 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3840 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3841 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3842
5977a0b3
PH
3843PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3844 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3845 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3846 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3847
c91535f3
PH
3848PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3849 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3850 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3851
0d46a8c8
PH
3852PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3853
278c6e6c
PH
3854PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3855
2cbb4081
PH
3856PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3857 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3858 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3859
3eef829e
PH
3860PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3861 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3862 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3863 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3864 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3865
1ab95fa6
PH
3866PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3867 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3868 the message gets confusing).
3869
230205fc
PH
3870PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3871 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3872 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3873 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3874
75e0e026
PH
3875PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3876 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3877 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3878 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3879 same order.
3880
3881PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3882 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3883 the different processes.
3884
145396a6
PH
3885PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3886
3cd34f13
PH
3887PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3888
11121d3d
JJ
3889JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3890 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3891
3892JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3893 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3894
3895JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3896 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3897 messages matching specified criteria.
3898
8def5aaf
PH
3899PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3900
929ba01c
PH
3901PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3902 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3903
2632889e
PH
3904PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3905 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3906 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3907 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3908 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3909 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3910 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3911 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3912 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3913 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3914
944a9c55
PH
3915PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3916 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3917 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3918
4a23603b
PH
3919PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3920
4730f942
PH
3921PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3922 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3923 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3924 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3925 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3926 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3927 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3928 the variable.
3929
30dba1e6
PH
3930PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3931 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3932
382afc6b
PH
3933PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3934
a86229cf
PH
3935PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3936
50c99ba6
PH
3937PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3938
d35e429d
PH
3939PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3940 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3941 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3942 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3943 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3944 size of the count of files.
3945
f90d018c
PH
3946PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3947
75def545
PH
3948PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3949 used in LMTP mode:
3950
3951 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3952 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3953 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3954 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3955
3956 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3957 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3958 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3959
3960PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3961 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3962 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3963 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3964 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3965
c46782ef
PH
3966PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3967 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3968
71fafd95
PH
3969PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3970 will now be deprecated.
3971
2c5db4fd
PH
3972PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3973
9cf6b11a
JJ
3974JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3975 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3976 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3977
3978JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3979 with very large, slow to parse queues
3980
3981JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3982
3983JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3984
898d150f
PH
3985PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3986 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3987 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3988 SMTP output lines.
3989
46218253
PH
3990PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3991 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3992 Sieve code now uses this.
3993
e97957bc
PH
3994PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3995 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3996
81e509d7
PH
3997PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3998 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3999
3d240ff7
PH
4000PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4001
b37c4101
PH
4002PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4003 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4004 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4005 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4006 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4007
79378e0f
PH
4008PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4009 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4010 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4011 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4012
e49c7bb4
PH
4013PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4014
d114ec46
PH
4015PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4016
f3d7df6c
PH
4017PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4018 is preferred over IPv4.
4019
715ab376
PH
4020PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4021 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4022 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4023 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4024 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4025 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4026 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4027
6b31b150
PH
4028PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4029 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4030 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4031
4032PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4033
d515a917
PH
4034PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4035 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4036 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4037 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4038 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4039 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4040 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4041 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4042 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4043 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4044 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4045
9b8fadde
PH
4046PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4047 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4048 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4049
214e2000 4050
5de37277
PH
4051Exim version 4.60
4052-----------------
4053
cc38ddbf
PH
4054PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4055
4056 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4057 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4058
4059 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4060 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4061 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 4062
72fdd6ae
PH
4063PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4064
4065 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4066 not a single digit.
4067
4068 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4069 string.
4070
4071 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4072 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4073 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4074 silly things.
4075
4076 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4077 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4078
4079 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4080 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 4081
cb741023
PH
4082PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4083 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4084 "/bin:/usr/bin".
4085
f174f16e
PH
4086PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4087 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 4088
c25242d7
PH
4089PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4090 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4091
4092 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4093
4094 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4095 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4096 this:
4097
4098 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4099
82c19f95
PH
4100PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4101 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4102 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4103 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4104 identical. For example:
4105
4106 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4107
4108 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4109 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4110 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4111
d7ffbc12
PH
4112PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4113 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4114 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4115 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4116
9f526266
PH
4117PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4118 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4119 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4120 message.
4121
87fcc8b9
PH
4122PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4123
4124 o fixes some comments
4125 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4126 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4127 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4128 and documents the missing references header update
4129
4130 and most important:
4131
4132 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 4133 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
4134 result)
4135
456682f5
PH
4136PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4137 Electronic Mail") by including:
4138
4139 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4140
4141 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 4142 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
4143 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4144 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4145 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4146
4147 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4148
4149 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4150
4151 The auto-replied keyword:
4152
4153 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4154 message by an automatic process,
4155
4156 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4157
4158 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4159 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4160
4161 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4162 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4163 other messages.
4164
3e46c1aa
PH
4165PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4166 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 4167
49826d12
PH
4168PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4169
eba0c039
PH
4170PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4171 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4172 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4173
a0d6ba8a
PH
4174PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4175 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4176 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4177
f0917727
PH
4178PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4179 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4180 and treats the condition as false.
4181
096fee00
PH
4182PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4183
024bd3c2
PH
4184PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4185 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4186 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4187 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4188 not changing the active code.
4189
4190 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4191 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4192
4193 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4194 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4195
df199fec
PH
4196PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4197 (Bugzilla #53).
4198
d27f1df3
PH
4199PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4200 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4201 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4202 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4203 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4204 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4205 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4206 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4207 the text comparison.
4208
96776534
PH
4209PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4210 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4211 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4212 The same fix has been applied.
4213
5de37277 4214
9a799bc0
PH
4215Exim version 4.54
4216-----------------
4217
4218PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4219 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4220 It now does.
4221
99a4b039
PH
4222PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4223 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4224
4225PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4226
4b233853
PH
4227PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4228 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4229 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4230 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4231 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4232
8857ccfd
PH
4233TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4234 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4235 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4236 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4237 or /domain=).
4238
433a2980
PH
4239PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4240 testing suite.
4241
3e46c1aa 4242
9a799bc0 4243
e3a311ba
TK
4244Exim version 4.53
4245-----------------
4246
4247TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4248 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4249
13b685f9
PH
4250PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4251
395ff96d
PH
4252PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4253
5b68f6e4
PH
4254PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4255 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4256 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4257
1ab52c69
PH
4258PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4259 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4260 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4261
b07e6aa3
PH
4262PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4263 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4264 operating systems.
4265
254e032f
PH
4266PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4267 ${stat: expansion item.
4268
3af76a81
PH
4269PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4270 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4271
2548ba04
PH
4272PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4273 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4274 file for comments.
4275
b6c6011d
PH
4276PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4277
cf39cf57
PH
4278PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4279 setting.
4280
f1513293
PH
4281PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4282 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4283
727549a4
PH
4284TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4285
af46795e
PH
4286PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4287 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4288 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4289 the end of the subprocess.
4290
d7b47fd0
PH
4291PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4292 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4293 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4294 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4295 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4296
ee744174
JJ
4297JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4298
b582ab87
PH
4299TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4300
41a13e0a
PH
4301PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4302 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4303
f625cc5a
PH
4304PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4305
4306PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4307
21f7af35
PH
4308PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4309 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4310 HP-UX compiler.
4311
31480e42
PH
4312PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4313
2d280592
PH
4314PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4315 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4316 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4317
7cd1141b
PH
4318PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4319 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4320
4321PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4322 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4323
750af86e
PH
4324PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4325 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4326
4327 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4328 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4329
4330 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4331 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4332 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4333 contributed by a Radius user.
4334
4335PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4336 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4337
4304270b
TK
4338TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4339 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4340
750af86e
PH
4341PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4342 available.
4343
64ffc24f
PH
4344PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4345 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4346 received.
4347
5dd9625b
PH
4348PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4349 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4350 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4351 header lines when this was not necessary.
4352
5591031b
PH
4353PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4354
ba18e66a
PH
4355PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4356 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4357 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4358 exists".
4359
9cec981f
PH
4360PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4361 -bV or -d is used.
4362
aa2b5c79
PH
4363PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4364 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
4365 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4366 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 4367
48a53b7f
PH
4368PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4369
1c59d63b
PH
4370PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4371
671012da
TK
4372TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4373
1509d3a8
PH
4374PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4375
4376PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4377 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4378 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4379 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4380 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4381 settings.
4382
4383PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4384
2fe1a124
PH
4385PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4386 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4387 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4388 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4389 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4390 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4391 which is clearly wrong.
4392
8800895a
PH
4393PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4394
ccfdb010
PH
4395PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4396 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4397 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4398 subsequently added.
4399
1130bfb0
PH
4400PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4401 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4402
ebcb507f
PH
4403PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4404
c35e155c
PH
4405PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4406 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4407
95d1f782
PH
4408PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4409 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4410
fd6de02e
PH
4411PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4412 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4413
58de37c5
PH
4414PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4415 recipients, not senders.
4416
261cf466
TF
4417TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4418 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4419
3ee512ff
PH
4420PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4421
e08c430f
PH
4422PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4423
bef5a11f
PH
4424PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4425 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4426 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4427 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4428
7546de58
TF
4429TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4430
e5d5a95f
TF
4431TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4432 clock is set back in time.
4433
2e88a017
TF
4434TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4435 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4436
a5f65aa4
TF
4437TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4438 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4439
e7726cbf
PH
4440PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4441 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4442 (see PH/47 above).
4443
a7fdad5b
TF
4444TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4445 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4446 header rewrites.
4447
6af56900
PH
4448PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4449 type ("H").
4450
0925ede6
PH
4451PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4452
66afa403
TF
4453TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4454 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4455 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4456
0154e85a
TF
4457TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4458 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4459 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4460 helo verification defer as a failure.
4461
16f12c76
PH
4462PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4463 actual error message.
4464
bbe902f0 4465
e5a9dba6
PH
4466Exim version 4.52
4467-----------------
4468
4469TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4470
22c3b60b
PH
4471PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4472 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4473 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4474 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4475
06a9b4b5
PH
4476TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4477
c1ac6996
PH
4478PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4479 can still be requested.
4480
9c7a242c
PH
4481PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4482 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4483 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4484 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4485
87ba3f5f
PH
4486TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4487 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4488 circumstances, but probably never did.
4489
4490PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4491 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4492 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4493 in the header line.
4494
29aba418
TF
4495TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4496
fe0dab11
TF
4497TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4498 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4499
11d337a4
TK
4500TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4501
4502TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4503
415c8f3b
PH
4504PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4505 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4506 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4507 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4508 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4509 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4510
958541e9
PH
4511PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4512 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4513 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4514 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4515 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4516 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4517
c206415f
TK
4518TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4519 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4520
2a4be8f9
PH
4521PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4522 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4523
1cba11c5
SC
4524SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4525 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4526
4c04137d 4527SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4528
4529SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4530
4531SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4532
4533SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4534
4535SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4536
4537SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4538
1005d00e
TK
4539TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4540
4541TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4542 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4543 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4544
4545TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4546 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4547 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4548 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4549
9b4768fa
PH
4550PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4551 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4552 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4553
4554PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4555 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4556 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4557 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4558
0d7eb84a
PH
4559PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4560 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4561 to be made).
4562
4563PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4564 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4565 should work with maildirs and everything.
4566
40727bee
TK
4567TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4568 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4569
554d2369
TF
4570TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4571 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4572
1f922db1
PH
4573PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4574 function for BDB 4.3.
4575
ef213c3b
PH
4576PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4577
8ac170f3
PH
4578PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4579 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4580 involved.
4581
b1c749bb
PH
4582PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4583 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4584 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4585 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4586 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4587 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4588
4aac9b49
PH
4589PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4590 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4591 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4592 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4593 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4594 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4595 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4596 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4597
294520c8
TK
4598TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4599 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4600 details.
4601
5bd022fe
PH
4602PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4603 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4604
90e9ce59
PH
4605PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4606 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4607 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4608 test. It is now used for both.
4609
5ea81592
PH
4610PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4611 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4612 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4613 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4614 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4615 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4616
c6c2dc1d
PH
4617PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4618 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4619 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4620 string_vformat().
4621
fffffe4c
PH
4622PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4623 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4624 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4625
9a26b6b2
PH
4626PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4627 experimental DomainKeys support:
4628
4629 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4630 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4631 the control was given.
4632
4633 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4634
4aee0225
PH
4635PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4636
32d668a5
PH
4637PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4638
8187c3f3
PH
4639PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4640 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4641 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4642 db.h files).
4643
ff790e47 4644PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4645 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4646 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4647 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4648 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4649 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4650 course.
ff790e47 4651
5417f6d1
PH
4652PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4653 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4654 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4655 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4656 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4657 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4658
59cf8544
PH
4659PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4660 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4661 do -d+all out of habit.
4662
e7ad8a65
PH
4663PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4664 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4665 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4666
ade42478
PH
4667PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4668 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4669 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4670 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4671 record types that Exim uses.
4672
182ad5cf
PH
4673PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4674 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4675 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4676 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4677 non-existent file that was broken.
4678
b0d9fc80
TK
4679TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4680 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4681
4682TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4683 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4684 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4685
4686TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4687
47c7a64a
PH
4688PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4689 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4690 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4691 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4692 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4693 same time.
4694
a388bce4
SC
4695SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4696 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4697 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4698 at a slight CPU cost.
4699
4700SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4701 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4702
4703SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4704 by Marc Sherman.
4705
0793e4ed
SC
4706SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4707
c58b88df
PH
4708PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4709 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4710
e7ad8a65 4711
7982096b
PH
4712Exim version 4.51
4713-----------------
4714
1a46a8c5
PH
4715TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4716 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4717
2f079f46 4718TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4719
4720TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4721
4722PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4723 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4724
4725PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4726 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4727 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4728 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4729 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4730 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4731 file.
4732
4733PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4734 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4735 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4736 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4737 these two options.
4738
4739PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4740 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4741 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4742 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4743 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4744 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4745 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4746 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4747
4748PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4749 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4750
4751PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4752 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4753 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4754 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4755 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4756 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4757
4758PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4759 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4760 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4761 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4762
4763PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4764 Finch).
4765
4766PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4767 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4768
49c2d5ea
PH
4769PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4770 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4771 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4772 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4773 message.
49c2d5ea 4774
bf759a8b
PH
4775PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4776
83364d30
PH
4777PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4778 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4779
7999bbd7
PH
4780PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4781 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4782 to what was transported.)
4783
7dbf77c9
PH
4784TF/01 Added $received_time.
4785
74e0617f
PH
4786PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4787 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4788 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4789 spamd_address settings.
4790
2f079f46
PH
4791PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4792 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4793 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4794 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4795 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4796
8c841523
PH
4797PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4798
7766a4f0
PH
4799PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4800 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4801 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4802 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4803 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4804
8b417f2c
PH
4805PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4806 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4807
901f42cb
PH
4808PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4809 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4810 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4811 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4812 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4813 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4814 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4815 for failure.
4816
f9b9210e
PH
4817PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4818 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4819 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4820 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4821 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4822 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4823 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4824 "input=".
4825
54cdb463
PH
4826PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4827
cf00dad6
PH
4828PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4829 driver and ACL definitions.
4830
acb1b346
PH
4831PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4832 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4833
c5ddb310
PH
4834PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4835 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4836 understands it better than I do:
4837
4838 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4839 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4840
4841 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4842 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4843 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4844 => three warnings about OTP not working
4845 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4846
4847 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4848 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4849 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4850 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4851 for each call.)
4852 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4853 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4854
4855 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4856 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4857 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4858
31619da6
PH
4859PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4860 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4861 specified.
4862
bebaf0fc
PH
4863PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4864 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4865 "Linux".
4866
475fe28a
PH
4867PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4868 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4869 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4870
4871 warn !verify = sender
4872 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4873
4874 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4875 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4876
7e8bec7a
PH
4877PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4878
4879 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4880 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4881
4882 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4883 nomenclature these days.)
4884
e4a89c47
PH
4885PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4886 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4887
5ca2a9a1
PH
4888PH/30 In these circumstances:
4889 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4890 . First host does not offer TLS;
4891 . First host accepts first address;
4892 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4893 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4894 . Second host accepts second address.
4895 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4896 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4897 address.
7e8bec7a 4898
c688b954
PH
4899PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4900 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4901 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4902 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4903 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4904
fed77020
PH
4905PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4906 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4907
7fe1560f
PH
4908PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4909 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4910
ebb6e6d5
PH
4911PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4912 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4913 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4914
9c4e8f60
PH
4915PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4916 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4917 overlooked.
4918
4919PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4920
d7174846
PH
4921PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4922 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4923 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4924 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4925 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4926 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4927 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4928
4929 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4930 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4931 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4932 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4933 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4934
4935 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4936 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4937 routed further.
4938
cfe75fc3
PH
4939PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4940 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4941 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4942 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4943 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4944 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4945
be22d70e
PH
4946PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4947
0612b098
PH
4948PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4949 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4950 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4951 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4952 printable escape sequences.
4953
2e0c1448
PH
4954PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4955 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4956 body only.
4957
447d236c
PH
4958PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4959 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4960 are as follows:
4961
4962 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4963 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4964 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4965 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4966 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4967
4968 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4969 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4970 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4971
d20976dc
PH
4972PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4973
f656d135
PH
4974PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4975 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4976 play with."
4977
2e2a30b4
PH
4978PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4979 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4980 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4981 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4982 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4983 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4984 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4985 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4986 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4987 the log output.
4988
9176e9f0
PH
4989PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4990 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4991 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4992 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4993 "make".
4994
7982096b 4995
bbe902f0
PH
4996A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4997----------------------------------------
4998
4999Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5000changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5001needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5002in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5003that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5004release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5005from 4.43.
5006
5007I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
50084.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5009those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5010historical information.
5011
5012
f7b63901 5013Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
5014-----------------
5015
5fe762f6
PH
5016 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5017
139059f6 5018 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 5019 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 5020
7086e875
PH
5021 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5022 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5023 place.
5024
35af9f61
PH
5025 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5026 filter fails to execute.
5027
b668c215
PH
5028 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5029 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5030 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5031 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5032 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5033
a494b1e1
PH
5034 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5035
5036 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5037 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5038 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5039 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 5040
c5fcb476
PH
5041 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5042 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5043 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5044 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5045 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5046
69358f02
PH
5047 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5048
5be20824
PH
504910. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5050
eb2c0248
PH
505111. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5052 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5053 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5054 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5055
2a3eea10
PH
505612. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5057 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5058 sender verification.
5059
506013. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5061 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5062
23c7ff99
PH
506314. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5064
4deaf07d
PH
506515. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5066 connection timeout.
5067
926e1192
PH
506816. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5069 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5070
650edc6f
PH
507117. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5072 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5073
2c7db3f5
PH
507418. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5075 information about exactly what failed.
5076
3d235903
PH
507719. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5078
7c7ad977
PH
507920. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5080 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5081 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5082
981756db
PH
508321. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5084 It is now set to "smtps".
5085
d4eb88df
PH
508622. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5087 ignore_target_hosts.
5088
508923. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5090 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5091 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5092 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5093 "[x.x.x.x]".
5094
7d468ab8
PH
509524. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5096 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5097 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5098
509925. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5100 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5101 wake it up if nothing else does.
5102
62c0818f
PH
510326. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5104 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5105 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5106 end up negative.
5107
26034054
PH
510827. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5109 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5110
af66f652
PH
511128. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5112
90af77f4
PH
511329. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5114 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5115 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5116 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5117 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5118 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5119 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5120 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5121
d8ef3577
PH
512230. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5123 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5124 than one IP address.
5125
5cb8cbc6
PH
512631. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5127 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5128 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5129 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5130
14702f5b
PH
513132. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5132 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5133 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5134 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5135 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5136 1024 to 2048 bytes.
5137
063b1e99
PH
513833. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5139 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5140 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5141 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5142
652e1b65
PH
514334. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5144 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5145 respected.
5146
6f0c9a4f
PH
514735. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5148 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5149 $sender_host_address.
5150
33397d19
PH
515136. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5152 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5153 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5154 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5155 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5156 very small.
5157
7bb56e1f
PH
515837. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5159
5160 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5161 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5162
ea3bc19b
PH
5163 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5164 just the host names, not the priorities.
5165
5166 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
5167 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5168 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 5169
ea3bc19b 5170 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 5171 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 5172
0bcb2a0e
PH
517338. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5174 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5175 domain.
5176
2ac0e484
PH
517739. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5178
4e1fde53
PH
517940. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5180 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5181
de365ded
PH
518241. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5183 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5184 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5185
f05da2e8
PH
518642. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5187
d6453af2
PH
518843. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5189
f7b63901
PH
519044. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5191
519245. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5193 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5194 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5195 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5196 because the tests only now provoked it.
5197
a444213a
PH
519846. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5199 (this can affect the format of dates).
5200
0ec020ea
PH
520147. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5202 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5203 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5204 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5205
b1206957
PH
520648. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5207
520849. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5209 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5210 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5211 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5212
26dd5a95
PH
521350. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5214 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5215 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5216
343b2385
PH
521751. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5218 autoreply.
5219
1c5466b9
PH
522052. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5221 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5222 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5223 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5224 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5225 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5226 is going on).
5227
55ee9ee3
PH
522853. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5229 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5230 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5231 the line.
5232
d38f8232
PH
523354. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5234 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5235 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5236
5237 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5238 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5239 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5240 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5241 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5242 so I produce this patch..."
5243
3295e65b
PH
5244 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5245 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5246 is not defined.
5247
7102e136
PH
524855. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5249 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
5250 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5251 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 5252 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 5253
3ca0ba97
PH
525456. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5255
c2bcbe20
PH
525657. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5257 long debug lines gets shown.
5258
18ce445d
PH
525958. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5260 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5261
1f5b4c3d
PH
526259. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5263
5264 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5265 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5266 of $primary_hostname.
5267
b975ba52
PH
526860. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5269 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5270 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5271 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
5272 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5273 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5274 by change 4.50/55 above.
5275
5276 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5277 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5278 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5279 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5280 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5281 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 5282 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
5283
528461. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5285 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5286 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 5287 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 5288
17ffcae7
PH
528962. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5290 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5291
d95f9fdb
PH
529263. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5293 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5294 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5295 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5296 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5297
86b8287f
PH
529864. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5299 This has been fixed.
5300
60dc5e56
PH
530165. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5302 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5303 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5304 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5305 the caching.)
5306
533244af
PH
530766. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5308
a5a28604
PH
530967. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5310 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5311 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5312 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5313
7e634d24
PH
531468. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5315 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5316
3e11c26b
PH
531769. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5318 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5319 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5320
6729cf78
PH
532170. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5322 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5323 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5324 message there.
5325
00f00ca5
PH
532671. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5327 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5328 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5329
c9bdd01c
PH
533072. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5331 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5332 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5333 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5334
d43194df
PH
533573. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5336 during host lookups.
5337
fe5b5d0b
PH
533874. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5339 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5340
5341 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5342
76a2d7ba
PH
534375. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5344 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5345 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5346 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5347 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5348 background.
5349
535076. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5351 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5352
04f7d5b9
PH
535377. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5354 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5355 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5356
bc60667e
PH
535778. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5358
bb6e88ff
PH
535979. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5360 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5361 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5362 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5363 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5364 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5365 process earlier.
5366
1e70f85b
PH
536780. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5368 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5369 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5370 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5371 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5372
537381. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5374 tables).
5375
4e01f9d6
PH
537682. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5377
1ee1cef2
PH
537883. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5379 "vacation" handling.
5380
6e2b4ccc
PH
538184. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5382 OS variants using glibc.
5383
8e669ac1
PH
538485. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5385
495ae4b0 5386
bbe902f0
PH
5387----------------------------------------------------
5388See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5389----------------------------------------------------
5390
5391
5392Exim version 4.44
5393-----------------
5394
5395 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5396 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5397 transport
5398
5399 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5400 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5401 place.
5402
5403 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5404 filter fails to execute.
5405
5406 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5407 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5408 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5409 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5410 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5411
5412 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5413 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5414 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5415 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5416
5417 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5418 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5419 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5420 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5421 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5422
5423 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5424
5425 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5426 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5427 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5428 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5429
5430 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5431 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5432 sender verification.
5433
543410. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5435 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5436
543711. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5438 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5439
544012. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5441 ignore_target_hosts.
5442
544313. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5444 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5445 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5446 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5447 "[x.x.x.x]".
5448
544914. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5450 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5451 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5452
545315. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5454 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5455 wake it up if nothing else does.
5456
545716. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5458 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5459 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5460 end up negative.
5461
546217. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5463 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5464
ea3a6f44 546518. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
5466
546719. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5468 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5469 empty pattern.
5470
547120. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5472 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5473 one IP address.
5474
ea3a6f44
NM
547521. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5476 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5477 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5478 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5479 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5480 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 5481
ea3a6f44
NM
548222. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5483 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5484 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
5485
548623. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5487 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5488 $sender_host_address.
5489
549024. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5491
ea3a6f44
NM
549225. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5493 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5494 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5495
549626. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5497 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5498
ea3a6f44
NM
549927. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5500 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5501
ea3a6f44
NM
550228. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5503 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5504 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5505 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5506
550729. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5508 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5509 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5510
ea3a6f44
NM
551130. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5512 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5513 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5514 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5515
ea3a6f44
NM
551631. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5517 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5518 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5519
ea3a6f44
NM
552031. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5521 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5522
ea3a6f44
NM
552332. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5524 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5525 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5526 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5527 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5528 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5529 is going on).
bbe902f0 5530
ea3a6f44
NM
553133. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5532 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5533 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5534 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5535 CAN-2005-0021
5536
ea3a6f44
NM
553734. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5538 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5539 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5540 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5541 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5542 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5543 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5544
5545 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5546 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5547 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5548 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5549 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5550 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5551 CAN-2005-0021
5552
ea3a6f44
NM
555335. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5554 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5555 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5556 CAN-2005-0022
5557
ea3a6f44
NM
555836. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5559 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5560 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5561 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5562 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5563
ea3a6f44
NM
556437. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5565 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5566 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5567 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5568 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5569
ea3a6f44
NM
557038. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5571 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5572 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5573 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5574 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5575
5576
495ae4b0
PH
5577Exim version 4.43
5578-----------------
5579
5580 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5581 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5582 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5583 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5584 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5585 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5586 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5587
5588 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5589 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5590 the delivery.
5591
5592 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5593
5594 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5595
5596 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5597 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5598 to local_scan().
5599
5600 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5601 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5602 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5603 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5604 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5605
5606 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5607 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5608
5609 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5610
5611 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5612
561310. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5614 header_sender only.
5615
561611. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5617 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5618
561912. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5620 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5621 affecting debugging statements).
5622
562313. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5624
562514. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5626 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5627 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5628 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5629 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5630 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5631 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5632 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5633 after the received time, and all would be well.
5634
563515. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5636 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5637 condition in an expansion string.
5638
563916. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5640
564117. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5642 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5643 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5644 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5645 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5646 job under whatever limits there are.
5647
564818. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5649
565019. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5651 space).
5652
565320. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5654 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5655 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5656 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5657 return path is set.
5658
565921. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5660 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5661 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5662 binary data in such strings.
5663
566422. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5665
566623. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5667 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5668 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5669 failure, which is pointless.
5670
567124. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5672
567325. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5674
567526. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5676 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5677 Sender: header lines.
5678
567927. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5680 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5681 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5682
568328. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5684 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5685 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5686 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5687 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5688 happens.
5689
569029. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5691 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5692 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5693 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5694 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5695
569630. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5697 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5698 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5699 1024.
5700
570131. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5702 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5703
570432. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5705 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5706
570733. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5708
570932. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5710
571133. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5712
571334. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5714 syntax error.
5715
571635. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5717
571836. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5719
572037. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5721 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5722 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5723 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5724
572538. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5726 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5727
5728
5729Exim version 4.42
5730-----------------
5731
5732 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5733 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5734 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5735 it was not quoted.
5736 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5737 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5738 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5739 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5740 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5741 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5742
5743 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5744 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5745 verification failure".
5746
5747 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5748 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5749 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5750 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5751
5752 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5753 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5754 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5755 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5756 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5757 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5758 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5759 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5760 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5761 treated as a timeout.
5762
5763 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5764 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5765 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5766 not set for Exim filters).
5767
5768 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5769 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5770 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5771
5772 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5773
5774 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5775 try to make them clearer.
5776
5777 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5778 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5779
5780 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5781
5782 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5783
578410. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5785 only the Cygwin environment.
5786
578711. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5788 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5789 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5790 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5791 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5792
579312. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5794 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5795 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5796 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5797 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5798 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5799 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5800
580113. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5802 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5803
580414. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5805
5806 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5807 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5808 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5809
5810 To: susanne@some.where
5811
5812 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5813 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5814 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5815 of addresses in From: header lines).
5816
5817 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5818 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5819 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5820
5821 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5822 treated as non-personal.
5823
5824 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5825 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5826
582715. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5828
582916. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5830
583117. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5832 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5833 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5834
583518. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5836 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5837
583819. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5839 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5840 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5841 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5842 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5843 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5844
584520. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5846 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5847 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5848 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5849 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5850 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5851 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5852 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5853
5854 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5855
585621. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5857 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5858
585922. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5860 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5861 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5862
586323. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5864 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5865
586624. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5867 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5868 rather than long int.
5869
587025. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5871
587226. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5873
5874
5875Exim version 4.41
5876-----------------
5877
5878 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5879 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5880 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5881 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5882 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5883 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5884
5885
5886Exim version 4.40
5887-----------------
5888
5889 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5890 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5891
5892 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5893 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5894 socklen_t is defined.
5895
5896 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5897 always exist.
5898
5899 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5900 configured.
5901
5902 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5903 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5904 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5905 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5906 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5907
5908 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5909 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5910 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5911 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5912
5913 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5914 of flapping under certain conditions.
5915
5916 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5917 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5918 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5919
5920 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5921
592210. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5923
592411. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5925 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5926 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5927 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5928
592912. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5930 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5931 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5932 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5933 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5934 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5935 preserved with the message after it was received.
5936
593713. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5938 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5939 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5940 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5941 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5942 test suite worked just fine.
5943
594414. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5945 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5946 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5947
594815. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5949 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5950 string.
5951
595216. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5953 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5954 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5955 does not fully solve it.
5956
595717. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5958 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5959 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5960 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5961 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5962
596318. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5964 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5965 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5966
596719. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5968 string, for example:
5969
5970 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5971
5972 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5973 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5974 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5975 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5976 the routers could not see them.
5977
597820. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5979 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5980
598121. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5982 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5983 output).
5984
598522. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5986 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5987 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5988 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5989 that needed quoting.
5990
599123. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5992 was not being matched caselessly.
5993
599424. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5995 backslashes.
5996
599725. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5998 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5999 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6000 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6001 when use_sender is false.
6002
600326. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6004
600527. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6006
600728. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6008
600929. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6010 the configuration file.
6011
601230. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6013 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6014
601531. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6016
601732. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6018 bytes in the message body.
6019
602033. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6021 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6022 delivery.
6023
602434. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6025
602635. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6027
602836. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6029 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6030 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6031 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6032 another IP address.
6033
6034
6035Exim version 4.34
6036-----------------
6037
6038 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6039 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6040
6041 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6042 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6043 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6044 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6045 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6046
6047 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6048 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6049
6050 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6051 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6052 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6053
6054 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6055 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6056 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6057
6058 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6059 for routers.
6060
6061 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6062 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6063 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6064 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6065 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6066 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6067 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6068
6069
6070Exim version 4.33
6071-----------------
6072
6073 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6074 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6075 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6076 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6077 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6078 default (and expected) setting.
6079
6080 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6081 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6082 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6083 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6084
6085 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6086 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6087
6088 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6089 in domain lists.
6090
6091 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6092 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6093 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6094 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6095 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6096 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6097
6098 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6099 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6100 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6101
6102 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6103 part (NOT match_host).
6104
6105 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6106
6107 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6108 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6109 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6110 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6111 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6112 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6113 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6114 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6115 the same named file.
6116
611710. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6118 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6119 when Exim is built.
6120
612111. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6122 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6123 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6124 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6125 a host name.
6126
612712. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6128 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6129 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6130
613113. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6132
613314. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6134
613515. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6136
613716. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6138 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6139
614017. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6141 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6142 before starting the TLS session.
6143
614418. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6145
614619. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6147 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6148
614920. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6150 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6151 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6152 colon in the middle).
6153
6154
6155Exim version 4.32
6156-----------------
6157
6158 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6159 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6160 multiple configurations are in use.
6161
6162 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6163 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6164 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6165 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6166 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6167 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6168
6169 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6170 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6171
6172 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6173 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6174 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6175
6176 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6177 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6178 occurs.
6179
6180 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6181 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6182
6183 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6184
6185 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6186 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6187
6188 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6189
6190 -prval:sval
6191
6192 is equivalent to
6193
6194 -oMr rval -oMs sval
6195
6196 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6197 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6198 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6199 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6200 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6201
620210. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6203 Exim's behaviour:
6204
6205 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6206 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6207 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6208 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6209 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6210 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6211
6212 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6213 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6214 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6215 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6216 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6217 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6218 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6219 string.
6220
6221 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6222 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6223 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6224 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6225 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6226
622711. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6228
622912. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6230 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6231 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6232
623313. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6234
623514. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6236 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6237 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6238 information.
6239
624015. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6241 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6242
624316. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6244 Three changes have been made:
6245
6246 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6247 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6248 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6249 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6250 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6251
6252 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6253 been restored.
6254
6255 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6256 the modified behaviour.
6257
6258
6259Exim version 4.31
6260-----------------
6261
6262 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6263 Larry Rosenman.
6264
6265 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6266 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6267
6268 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6269 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6270 try to track down a specific problem.
6271
6272 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6273 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6274 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6275
6276 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6277 warning.
6278
6279 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6280 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6281 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6282 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6283 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6284 some earlier ones do not.
6285
6286 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6287
6288 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6289 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6290 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6291 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6292 address literals are enabled, of course).
6293
6294 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6295
629610. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6297 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6298 by a command such as
6299
6300 exim -f "" ...
6301
6302 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6303
630411. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6305
630612. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6307 remained set. It is now erased.
6308
630913. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6310 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6311
631214. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6313 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6314 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6315 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6316 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6317 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6318 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6319 appropriate error code.
6320
632115. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6322 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6323 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6324 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6325 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6326 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6327
632816. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6329 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6330 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6331
633217. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6333 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6334 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6335 terminate the header.
6336
633718. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6338 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6339 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6340
634119. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6342 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6343 (4.30/29). In particular:
6344
6345 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6346 imposed.
6347
6348 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6349 to write a maildirsize file.
6350
6351 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6352 the transport, the new value overrides.
6353
6354 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6355 count.
6356
635720. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6358 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6359 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6360 space or a tab.
6361
636221. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6363 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6364 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6365 the fallback hosts.
6366
636722. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6368 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6369 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6370
637123. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6372 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6373 using a union.
6374
637524. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6376 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6377 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6378
637925. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6380
638126. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6382
638327. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6384
638528. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6386 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6387 become corrupted.
6388
638929. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6390 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6391 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6392 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6393 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6394 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6395 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6396 too great.
6397
639830. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6399 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6400 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6401 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6402 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6403 incorrectly.
6404
640531. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6406 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6407 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6408 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6409 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6410 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6411 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6412 cached value only when the same options are set.
6413
641432. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6415
641633. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6417 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6418 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6419 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6420 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6421
642234: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6423 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6424 it is clearly obsolete.
6425
642635. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6427 transport.
6428
642936. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6430 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6431 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6432 times.
6433
643437. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6435 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6436 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6437 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6438 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6439
644038. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6441 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6442 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6443 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6444
644539. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6446
6447 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6448
6449 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6450 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6451 2^31.
6452
645340. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6454 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6455 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6456 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6457 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6458 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6459 $localpart_data.
6460
646141. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6462 with the -f command-line option.
6463
646442. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6465 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6466 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6467 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6468 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6469 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6470
647143. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6472 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6473 line.
6474
647544. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6476 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6477 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6478 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6479 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6480 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6481 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6482 buffer is too small.
6483
648445. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6485 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6486
648746. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6488 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6489 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6490 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6491 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6492 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6493 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6494 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6495 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6496
649747. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6498 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6499 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6500
650148. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6502 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6503 ACL").
6504
650549. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6506 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6507 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6508 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6509 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6510
651150. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6512 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6513 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6514 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6515 is set.
6516
651751. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6518
651952. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6520
652153. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6522 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6523
652454. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6525 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6526 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6527
652855. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6529 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6530 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6531 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6532 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6533
653456. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6535 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6536 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6537 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6538 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6539 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6540 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6541
654257. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6543 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6544 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6545 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6546 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6547 the test of how many are available.
6548
654958. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6550 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6551 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6552 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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6553 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6554 new message is started.
6555
655659. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6557 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6558
655960. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6560 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6561
656261. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6563 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6564 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6565 is no long logged.
6566
656762. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6568 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6569 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6570 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6571 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6572 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6573 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6574
657563. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6576 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6577 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6578 interpreted as octal.
6579
658064. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6581 setting.
6582
658365. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6584 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6585 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6586 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6587 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6588 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6589
659066. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6591 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6592 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6593 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6594
6595 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6596 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6597 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6598 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6599
6600 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6601 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6602 is a bug fix.
6603
6604 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6605 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6606
660767. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6608
660968. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6610 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6611 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6612 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6613
661469. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6615 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6616 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6617 supplied", which is not helpful.
6618
661970. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6620 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6621 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6622
662371. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6624 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6625 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6626 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6627 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6628 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6629 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6630 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6631
663272. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6633 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6634 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6635 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6636 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6637
663873. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6639 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6640 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6641 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6642 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6643 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6644
664574. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6646 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6647 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6648
664975. Added write_rejectlog option.
6650
665176. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6652 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6653 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6654 variables.
6655
665677. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6657
665878. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6659 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6660 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6661 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6662 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6663 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6664 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6665 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6666
666779. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6668 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6669 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6670 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6671 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6672
667380. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6674 Haardt.
6675
667681. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6677 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6678 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6679 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6680 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6681 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6682 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6683 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6684 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6685
6686
6687Exim version 4.30
6688-----------------
6689
6690 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6691 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6692 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6693
6694 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6695 fixed.
6696
6697 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6698 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6699 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6700
6701 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6702 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6703 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6704 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6705 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6706 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6707
6708 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6709 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6710 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6711 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6712 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6713 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6714 the Exim test suite.
6715
6716 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6717 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6718 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6719 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6720
6721 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6722 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6723 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6724 specify it in this variable.
6725
6726 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6727 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6728 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6729 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6730
6731 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6732 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6733 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6734 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6735
6736 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6737 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6738 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6739 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6740 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6741
6742 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6743
674410. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6745 they are logged.
6746
674711. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6748 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6749 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6750 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6751 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6752
675312. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6754 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6755
675613. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6757 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6758 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6759 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6760 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6761
676214. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6763 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6764
676515. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6766 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6767 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6768
676916. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6770 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6771
677217. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6773 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6774
677518. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6776 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6777 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6778
677919. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6780 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6781
678220. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6783 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6784 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6785 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6786
678721. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6788
678922. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6790 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6791 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6792 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6793
679423. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6795
679624. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6797 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6798
679925. Added .include_if_exists.
6800
680126. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6802 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6803 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6804 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6805 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6806 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6807
680827. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6809
681028. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6811 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6812 this.
6813
681429. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6815
681630. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6817 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6818
6819 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6820 550 Sender verify failed
6821
6822 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6823 the final line of the response.
6824
682531. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6826 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6827 all other user lookups.
6828
682932. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6830 delivery time.
6831
683233. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6833 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6834 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6835 result into an int without checking.
6836
683734. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6838 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6839 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
495ae4b0
PH
6840
684135. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6842 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6843 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6844 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6845
684636. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6847 correctly.
6848
684937. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6850 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6851
685238. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6853 to the empty sender.
6854
685539. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6856 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6857 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6858 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6859 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6860 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6861 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6862 panic log.
6863
686440. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6865 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6866 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6867 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6868 used.
6869
687041. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6871 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6872
687342. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6874 timestamps.
6875
687643. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6877 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6878
687944. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6880
688145. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6882 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6883 logs.
6884
688546. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6886 as soon as it is encountered.
6887
688847. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6889
689048. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6891 rewritten to "<>".
6892
689349. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6894 recognizes a tab character.
6895
689650. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6897 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6898 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6899 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6900
690151. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6902
690352. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6904 crash.
6905
690653. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6907
690854. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6909
691055. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6911 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6912 2822.
6913
691456. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6915 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6916 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6917 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6918 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6919
692057. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6921 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6922
692358. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6924 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6925 list (.included file names were always shown).
6926
692759. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6928 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6929 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6930 root at that time.
6931
693260. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6933 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6934
693561. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6936
693762. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6938
693963. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6940
694164. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6942 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6943 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6944 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6945 failures to open the logs.
6946
694765. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6948 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6949 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6950 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6951 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6952 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6953 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6954
6955
6956Exim version 4.24
6957-----------------
6958
6959 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6960 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6961 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6962 change 4.23/1.
6963
6964 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6965 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6966 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6967
6968 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6969 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6970 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6971
6972 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6973 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6974 causing some misleading effects.
6975
6976 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6977 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6978 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6979
6980 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6981 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6982 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6983 queue-runner function directly.
6984
6985
6986Exim version 4.23
6987-----------------
6988
6989 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6990 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6991
6992 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6993 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6994 was always written to the default place.
6995
6996 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6997 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6998 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6999
7000 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7001
7002 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7003
7004 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7005 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7006 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7007
7008 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7009 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7010 must start.
7011
7012 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7013 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7014 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7015
7016 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7017 command line option is disabled.
7018
7019 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7020 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7021
7022 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7023
7024 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7025
7026 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7027 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7028
702910. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7030
703111. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7032 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7033 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7034 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7035 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7036 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7037
703812. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7039 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7040 timeout.
7041
704213. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7043 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7044
704514. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7046 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7047
704815. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7049 received was valid base64.
7050
705116. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7052 name of the variable that was being set.
7053
705417. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7055
705618. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7057 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7058 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7059 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7060 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7061 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7062
706319. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7064
706520. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7066 nor realm was specified.
7067
706821. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7069 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7070 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7071 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7072
707322. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7074 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7075 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7076
707723. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7078 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7079 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7080
708124. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7082 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7083 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7084 some systems use these upper case variants.
7085
708625. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7087 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7088 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7089 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7090
709126. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7092
709327. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7094 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7095
709628. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7097 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7098 expansion variable.
7099
710029. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7101
710230. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7103 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7104 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7105 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7106
710731. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7108 using it.
7109
711032. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7111 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7112 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7113
711433. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7115 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7116
711734. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7118 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7119 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7120 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7121
712235. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7123 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7124 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7125
712636. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7127
712837. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7129 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7130 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7131 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7132 aborted.
7133
713438. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7135 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7136 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7137
713839. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7139
714040. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7141 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7142
714341. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7144 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7145
714642. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7147 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7148 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7149 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7150 when emails are that large.
7151
7152
7153
7154Exim version 4.22
7155-----------------
7156
7157 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7158 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7159
7160 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7161 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7162 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7163
7164 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7165 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7166 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7167
7168 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7169 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7170 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7171 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7172 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7173
7174 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7175 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7176 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7177 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7178 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7179 ever.
7180
7181 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7182 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7183 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7184 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7185 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7186 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7187 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7188 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7189 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7190 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7191 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7192 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7193 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7194 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7195
7196 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7197 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7198 parameterised it.
7199
7200 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7201 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7202 error should be diagnosed.
7203
7204 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7205 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7206 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7207 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7208 appeared instead of "NULL".
7209
721010. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7211 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7212 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7213 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7214 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7215 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7216 proceeds).
7217
7218 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7219 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7220 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7221
7222
7223Exim version 4.21
7224-----------------
7225
7226 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7227 or receiver verification errors.
7228
7229 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7230 name.
7231
7232 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7233 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7234 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7235 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7236
7237 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7238 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7239 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7240 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7241 shouldn't happen again.
7242
7243 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7244 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7245 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7246
7247 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7248 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7249
7250 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7251
7252 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7253 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7254
7255 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7256 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7257 RFC.
7258
725910. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7260 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7261 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7262
726311. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7264 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7265 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7266 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7267
726812. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7269 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7270 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7271 to define what should happen).
7272
727313. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7274 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7275 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7276
727714. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7278
727915. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7280
728116. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7282 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7283
4c04137d 728417. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
495ae4b0
PH
7285 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7286 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7287 structure in all cases.
7288
7289 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7290 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7291 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7292 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7293
729418. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7295 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7296 domain name.
7297
729819. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7299 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7300
730120. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7302 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7303
730421. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7305 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7306 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7307
730822. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7309 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7310 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7311
731223. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7313 the book and for uniformity.
7314
731524. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7316
731725. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 7318 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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7319 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7320 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7321 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7322 non-existent command as the problem.
7323
732426. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7325 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7326 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7327
732827. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7329
733028. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7331 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7332 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7333
733429. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7335 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7336 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7337 timestamps using strftime().
7338
733930. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7340 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7341
734232. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7343 transport-time rewrites.
7344
734533. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7346 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7347 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7348 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7349
735034. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7351 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7352
735335. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7354 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7355 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7356 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7357 comma and a space.
7358
735936. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7360 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7361 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7362 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7363 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7364 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7365 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7366
736737. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7368 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7369 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7370 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7371 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7372
737338. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7374 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7375 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7376 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7377 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7378 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7379 remaining text gets split now.
7380
738139. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7382 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7383 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7384 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7385
738640. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7387 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7388 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7389 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7390 $return_path.
7391
739241. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7393 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7394 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7395 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7396 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7397 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7398 passed through if needed.
7399
740042. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7401 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7402 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7403 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7404 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7405 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7406
740743. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7408 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7409 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7410 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7411 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7412
741344. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7414 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7415 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7416 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7417 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7418
741945. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7420 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7421 noticed.
7422
742346. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7424 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7425 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7426 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7427 mayhem of various kinds.
7428
742947. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7430 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 7431 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
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7432 the right test for positive values.
7433
743448. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7435 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7436 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7437 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7438 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7439 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7440 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7441 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7442 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7443 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7444 envelope.
7445
744649. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7447 module.
7448
744950. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7450 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7451 forbidding it.
7452
745351. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7454 the existing equality matching.
7455
745652. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7457 dealing with inode numbers.
7458
745953. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7460 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7461 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7462
746354. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7464 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7465 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7466 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7467 local_scan().
7468
746955. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7470 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7471 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7472 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7473 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7474 relay addresses has also been removed.
7475
747656. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7477
747857. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7479 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7480 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7481
748258. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7483 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7484 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7485 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7486 processing applies to CR:
7487
7488 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7489 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7490
7491 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7492 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7493 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7494 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7495
749659. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7497 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7498 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7499
750060. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7501 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7502 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7503 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7504 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7505 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7506 arisen.
7507
750861. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7509 program routers.
7510
751162. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7512 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7513 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7514 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7515 adds:
7516
7517 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7518
7519 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7520
7521 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7522
752363. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7524 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7525 not considered personal.
7526
752764. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7528
752965. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7530
753166. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7532
753367. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7534 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7535 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7536 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7537 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7538 header lines, and spool format errors.
7539
754068. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7541 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7542 for more flexibility.
7543
754469. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7545 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7546 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7547
754870. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7549 Sabourenkov.
7550
755171. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7552 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7553 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7554 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7555 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7556 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7557 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7558 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7559 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7560
756172. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7562 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7563 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7564 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7565 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7566 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7567 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7568
756973. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7570 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7571 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7572
757374. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7574 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7575 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7576 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7577 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7578 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7579 instead of killing the process with assert().
7580
758175. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7582 than Unicode encoding.
7583
758476. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7585 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7586 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7587 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7588
758977. Added process_log_path.
7590
759178. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7592 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7593
759479. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7595 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7596
759780. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7598 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7599 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7600
760181. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7602 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7603 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7604 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7605 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7606 were applied:
7607
7608 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7609 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7610 as invalid.
7611
761282. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7613 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7614 they will be used during message reception.
7615
7616
7617Exim version 4.20
7618-----------------
7619
7620The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7621
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