Rename T_APL to T_ADDRESSES
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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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5Exim version 4.83
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8TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
9
10 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
11 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
12 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
13 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
14 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
15 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
16
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17TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
18 utilities have not been installed.
19
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20JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
21 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
22
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23TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
24 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
25
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26TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
27 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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28 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
29 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 30
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31JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
32
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33TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
34 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
35
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36PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
37 not dns_use_dnssec.
38
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39JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
40
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41TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
42 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
43 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
44
8ddef691 45TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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46 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
47 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
48 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
49 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 50 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
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52JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
53
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54JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
55 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
56
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57JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
58 failed delivery.
59
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60JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
61
511a6c14 62JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
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63
64JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
65 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 66
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67JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
68 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
69
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70TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
71
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72JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
73
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74JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
75 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
76
77 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
78 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
79 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
80
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81TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
82 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
83 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
84 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 85
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86JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
87
8c51eead 88JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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89 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
90 lookup).
8c51eead 91
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92TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
93 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
94 Schlichting.
35aba663 95
fd3b6a4a 96JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 97 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 98
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99TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
100 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
101
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102JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
103
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104TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
105 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
106 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
107
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108JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
109 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
110
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111JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
112 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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113 hosts_request_ocsp.
114
ed3bba5f 115JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 116 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 117 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 118
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119JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
120
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121TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
122 Christian Aistleitner.
123
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124JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
125
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126TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
127 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
128
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129JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
130 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
131
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132JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
133 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
134
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135TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
136 support and error reporting did not work properly.
137
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138TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
139 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
140
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141TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
142 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
143 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
144
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145JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
146
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147PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
148 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
149 Jasper Wallace.
150
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2c422e6f 152Exim version 4.82
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154
155PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
156
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157PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
158 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
159
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160PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
161 by GnuTLS.
162
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163PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
164 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
165 routines.
166
13363eba 167PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 168
66645890 169PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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170 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
171 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
172 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
173 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 174
a3fb9793 175PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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176 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
177 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
178 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 179 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 180 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 181
d27f98fe 182TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 183
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184TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
185
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186TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
187 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
188
ae0e32ee 189TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 190 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 191 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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193TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 194
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195TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
196
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197TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
198 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
199
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200JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
201
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202JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
203
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204PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
205
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206NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
207 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 208
585121e2 209JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 210
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211PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
212 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
213 function.
a5f239e4 214
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215PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
216 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
217
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218JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
219 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
220 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 221
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222JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
223
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224JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
225
ea722490 226JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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227 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
228
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229JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
230 Bugzilla 884.
231
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232JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
233 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
234
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235JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
236 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
237
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238PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
239 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 240 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 241
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242JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
243 authenticators.
244
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245JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
246 for control.
247
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248PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
249
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250PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
251 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
252 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
253 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
254
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255TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
256
257 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
258 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
259 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
260 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
261 the retry rules.
262
263 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
264 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
265 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
266
267 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
268 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
269 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
270 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
271
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272 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
273 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
274 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
275 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
276 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
277 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
278 delivery, as in LMTP.
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280 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
281 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
282
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283TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
284
285 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
286
287 Resent-From: f
288
289 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
290 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
291 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
292 username as equal to the username.
293
294 This change corrects that bug.
295
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296GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
297 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
298 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
299
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300TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
301
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302PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
303 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
304 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
305 NULL dereference and crash.
306
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307JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
308
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309PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
310 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
311 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
312
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313SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
314
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315JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
316 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
317 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
318 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
319 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
320 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
321 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
322 The client is controlled by bolth of: a hosts_try_prdr option
323 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
324 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
325 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
326
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327PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
328 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
329
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330PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
331 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
332 Bugzilla 880.
333
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334PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
335 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
336 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
337 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
338 an empty string is now equivalent.
339
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340PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
341 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
342 not performing validation itself.
343
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344PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
345 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
346
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347JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
348 Bugzilla 321, 823.
349
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350TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifer and hexquote expansion operator
351
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352PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
353 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
354 other false fix of the same issue.
355 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
356 Bugzilla 1363.
357
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358PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
359 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
360
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361PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
362 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
363 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
364
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365PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
366 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
367 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
368
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369TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
370
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371JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
372
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373TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
374 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
375
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376TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
377 Alexander Miroch.
378
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379TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
380 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
381 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
382 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
383 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 384
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385TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
386 the src/util/ subdirectory.
387
581d7bee 388TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 389 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
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390 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
391
392TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
393 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
394 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
395 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
396
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397TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
398
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399TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
400 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
401 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 402
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403TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
404
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405TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
406 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
407 interaction.
408
409TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
410 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
411
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412TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
413 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
414
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418
419PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
420 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 421 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
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426
427PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
428 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
429 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
430
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431NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
432
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433NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
434 improved.
435
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436NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
437
c1e794ba 438PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 439
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440PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
441
442PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
443 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
444
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445PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
446 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
447
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448PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
449 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
450
f1e05cc7 451PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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452 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
453 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 454
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455PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
456
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457PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
458 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
459
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460PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
461
c45dd180 462PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 463
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464PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
465 non-compliant senders.
466 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
467
eae0036b 468NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
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469 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
470 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
471
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472PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
473 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
474 in spool file corruption.
475
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476PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
477 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
478 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
479 "Got SSL error 2".
480
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481TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
482 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
483 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
484
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485JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
486 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
487
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488JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
489
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490PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
491 diagnostics.
492 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
493
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494PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" fron "openssl_options".
495 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
496 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
497
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498PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
499 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
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500 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
501 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 502
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503PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
504 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
505
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506PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
507 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
508 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
509 resolver implementation change.
510
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511PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
512 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
513
9cbad13b
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514PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
515
9ee44efb
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516PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
517
6a6084f8
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518PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
519 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
520
12dd53c7
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521PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
522 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
523
9e45c72b 524JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
525 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
526
17c76198
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527PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
528 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
529 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
530 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 531 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 532
53947857 533PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 534
eae0036b 535PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
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536 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
537 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 538
9e45c72b 539JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 540
7390e768
PP
541PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
542 read-only, out of scope).
543 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
544
08488c86
PP
545PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
546 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
547 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
548 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
549
6475bd82
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550PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
551
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552PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
553 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
554 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
555 real issues in debug logging.
556
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557PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
558 assignment on my part. Fixed.
559
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560PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
561 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
562 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
563
564PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
565 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
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566 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
567 problems.
3375e053 568
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569PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
570 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
571
57eb9e91 572PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
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573 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
574 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
575 needs to override this, it can.
576
16880d1a
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577PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
578 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
579 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
580
a799883d
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581PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
582 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
583 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
584 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
585
3ecab157 586PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 587
0599f9cf 588
867fcbf5
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589Exim version 4.77
590-----------------
591
592PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
593 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
594
f1a29782
TF
595TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
596
ab42bd23
TK
597TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
598 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 599
0ca0cf52
TF
600TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
601 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
602
921b12ca
TF
603TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
604 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
605 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
606
607 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
608 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
609 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
610 not safe for signals.
611
612 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
613 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
614 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
615 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
616 exiwhat.
617
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618TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
619
620 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
621 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
622 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
623 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
624 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
625
626 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
627 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
628 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
629 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
630 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
631 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
632
633 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
634 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
635 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
636 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
637
638 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
639 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
640 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
641 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
642
643 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
644 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
645 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
646 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
647 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
648 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
649 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
650 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
651 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
652
653 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
654 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
655 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
656 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
657
658 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
659 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
660 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
661 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
662 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
663 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
664 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
665 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
666 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
667 details in the main documentation.
668
3634fc25
TF
669TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
670
792e8a19
TF
671TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
672
5901f0ab
TF
673TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
674 repository when doing development or release builds.
675
7f2a2a43
PP
676PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
677 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 678
061b7ebd
PP
679PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
680 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
681 Bugzilla 97.
682
e12f8c32
PP
683PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
684
9e949f00 685PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
686 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
687
688PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
689 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 690
555ae6af 691PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
692 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
693
694PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
695 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 696
6f7fe114
PP
697PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
698 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
699
c566dd90
PP
700PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
701 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
702 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
703 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 704
d6cc7c78 705PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
706 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
707 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
708
0d0e4455
PP
709PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
710
3399bb60 711PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
712
713PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
714 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
715
0ca0cf52 716
10906672
PP
717Exim version 4.76
718-----------------
719
720PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
721
754a0503
PP
722PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
723 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
724
c0c7b2da
PP
725PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
726
e97d1f08
PP
727PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
728
084c1d8c
PP
729PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
730 Bugzilla 1098.
731
4e7ee012
PP
732PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
733 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 734
c8d52a00
PP
735TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
736 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
737
54e7ce4a
PP
738PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
739 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
740
5ee6f336
PP
741PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
742 Bugzilla 1104.
743
c8d52a00 744TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
745 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
746
747TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
748 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
749 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
750 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
751
752PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
753 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 754
10906672 755
aa097c4c
NM
756Exim version 4.75
757-----------------
758
4c9ef03a 759NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
760 Bugzilla 1073
761
7f3d9eff
TF
762TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
763 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
764 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
765
159f52d2
TF
766TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
767 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
768
0cc9542a
PP
769PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
770 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
771 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
772
f7274286
PP
773PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
774 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
775
7b797365
PP
776PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
777 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
778
caacae52
NM
779NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
780 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
781
09dcaba9
NM
782NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
783 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
784
bc19a55b
PP
785PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
786 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 787
bd4c9759
NM
788NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
789 Fixes bug 943.
790
b72aab72
PP
791PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
792 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
793
2fe76745
PP
794PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
795 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
796
76aa570c
PP
797PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
798 SQL string expansion failure details.
799 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
800
f1e5fef5
PP
801PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
802 Patch from Simon Arlott.
803
4d805ee9
PP
804PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
805 extern declarations in function scope.
806 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
807
cd59ab18
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808PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
809 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
810 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
811 a kernel bug).
812
332f5cf3
PP
813PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
814 Patch from Mark Zealey.
815
29cfeb94
PP
816PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
817 Patch from Mark Zealey.
818
660242ad
PP
819PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
820 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
821
bc4bc4c5
PP
822PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
823 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
824
2e64baa9
NM
825NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
826 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
827 Dennis Davis.
828
bddd7526
PP
829PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
830
6bac1a9a
PP
831PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
832
552193f0
NM
833NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
834 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 835
1b587e48
TF
836TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
837 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
838
aa097c4c 839
8c07b69f
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840Exim version 4.74
841-----------------
842
843TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
844 consequences so log it to the panic log.
845
c0ea85ab
TF
846TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
847 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
848
0761d44e
TF
849TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
850
0a349494
PP
851DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
852 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
853 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
854
855PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
856 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
857 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
858
fea24b2e
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859PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
860 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
861 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
862 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
863
6545de78
PP
864PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
865 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
866 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
867 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
868
1670ef10
PP
869PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
870 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
871 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
872 arbitrary files.
873
c0886197
PP
874PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
875 (Wolfgang Breyha)
876
b7487bce
PP
877PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
878 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
879 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
880 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
881 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
882
8c07b69f 883
97fd1e48 884Exim version 4.73
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886
887PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
888 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
889 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
890
6901c596
PP
891PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
892 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
893
a8c8d6b5
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894JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
895
77bb000f
PP
896PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
897
a29e5231
PP
898PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
899
ec5a0394 900PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 901
55c75993
PP
902PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
903
453a6645 904PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
905 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
906 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
907 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
908
8544e77a
PP
909PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
910 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
911 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
912 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
913 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 914
83e029d5
PP
915PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
916
ed7f7860
PP
917PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
918
7d9f747b
PP
919PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
920
4b2241d2
PP
921PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
922
10385c15
PP
923PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
924
dbc4b90d
PP
925PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
926
532be449
PP
927PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
928
6a8de854 929PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
930 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
931 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 932
5dc43717
JJ
933JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
934
935JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
936 "exim" to be used
55c75993 937
3346ab01
PP
938PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
939 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
940
491fab4c
PP
941PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
942 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
943 Notification from John Horne.
944
13eb9497
PP
945PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
946 compatible.
947
948PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
949 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
950 it normally works.
951
7f36d675
DW
952DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
953 access.
954
c1d94452
DW
955DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
956 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
957 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
958
e2f5dc15
DW
959DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
960 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
961 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
962 configuration file.
963
cd25e41d
DW
964DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
965 option (effectively making it always true).
966
261dc43e
DW
967DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
968 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
969
fa32850b
DW
970DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
971 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
972
79d4bc3d
PP
973PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
974 run-time user, instead of root.
975
43236f35 976PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
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977 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
978
fb08281f
DW
979DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
980 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
981 arguments.
3346ab01 982
74935b98
DW
983DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
984 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
985 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
986
90b6341f
DW
987DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
988
57730b52
ML
989NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
990
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465e92cf
JJ
992Exim version 4.72
993-----------------
994
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995JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
996 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
997 typos
465e92cf 998
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999JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
1000 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
1001 (Finput)
edae0343 1002
9bd3e22c
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1003NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
1004 Patch from Alain Williams
1005
bb576ff7
NM
1006NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
1007
5a1a5845
NM
1008NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
1009 Patch from Andreas Metzler
1010
981a9fad
NM
1011NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
1012 Patch from Kirill Miazine
1013
7fc497ee
NM
1014NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
1015
1a41defa
JJ
1016JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
1017
a466095c 1018NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 1019 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 1020
94a6bd0b
NM
1021TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
1022
1023TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
1024
1025MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
1026 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
1027 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
1028
c1b141a8
NM
1029NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
1030 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 1031
b26eacf1 1032NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
1033 Patch by Simon Arlott
1034
179c5980 1035PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 1036 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 1037
9bd3e22c 1038
7c6d71af
NM
1039Exim version 4.71
1040-----------------
1041
7d9f747b 1042TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 1043
f013fb92
NM
1044NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
1045
0eb8eedd
NM
1046NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
1047
663ee6d9
NM
1048NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
1049
177ebd9b
NM
1050NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
1051
7c6d71af 1052
210f147e
NM
1053Exim version 4.70
1054-----------------
1055
cdd3bb85 1056TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 1057 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
1058
1059TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
1060 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 1061 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
1062
1063TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
1064 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 1065 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
1066
1067TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
1068 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
1069
210f147e
NM
1070NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
1071 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
1072 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
1073 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
1074
deafd5b3
NM
1075NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
1076 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 1077 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 1078
089793a4
TF
1079TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
1080
5f16ca82
TF
1081TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
1082
dae9d94e 1083NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 1084 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 1085
7d9f747b 1086NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 1087
06864c44
TF
1088TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
1089 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
1090 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
1091 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
1092
65a7d8c3 1093NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 1094 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 1095
23510047 1096TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 1097
7d9f747b 1098NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 1099
7d8eec3a 1100NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 1101 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 1102
89dec7b6
TF
1103TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
1104 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 1105
a99de90c
TF
1106TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
1107 that they are available at delivery time.
1108
e2803e40
TF
1109TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
1110
7199e1ee
TF
1111TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
1112 incoming_port log selectors.
1113
e276e04b
TF
1114TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
1115 setting expands to an empty string.
1116
ce552449 1117NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 1118 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 1119
e765a0f1 1120NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 1121 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 1122
4f054c63 1123NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 1124 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 1125
7d9f747b
PP
1126NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
1127 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 1128
7d9f747b
PP
1129NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
1130 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 1131
b52bc06e 1132NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 1133 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 1134
447de4b0
NM
1135NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
1136
4c69d561 1137NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 1138 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 1139
d5c39246 1140NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 1141 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 1142
0b23848a
TK
1143TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
1144
8f3414a1 1145NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 1146 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 1147
fb6f955d
NM
1148NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
1149
1150NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 1151
7d9f747b
PP
1152NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
1153 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 1154
7d9f747b
PP
1155NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
1156 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 1157
7d9f747b
PP
1158NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
1159 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 1160
7d9f747b
PP
1161NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
1162 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 1163
7d9f747b
PP
1164NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
1165 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 1166
7d9f747b
PP
1167NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
1168 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 1169
7d9f747b
PP
1170NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
1171 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 1172
7d9f747b 1173NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 1174 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 1175
7d9f747b 1176NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 1177
7d9f747b
PP
1178NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
1179 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 1180
7d9f747b 1181NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 1182
7d9f747b 1183NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 1184
7d9f747b 1185NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 1186
7d9f747b 1187NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 1188
17792b53 1189NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 1190 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 1191
7d9f747b
PP
1192NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
1193 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 1194
91576cec 1195NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 1196 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 1197
7d9f747b
PP
1198NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
1199 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 1200
7d9f747b 1201NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 1202
7d9f747b 1203NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 1204
7d9f747b 1205NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 1206
7d9f747b 1207NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 1208
deafd5b3 1209
47db1125
NM
1210Exim version 4.69
1211-----------------
1212
4b3504d0
TK
1213TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
1214 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
1215 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
1216
1217 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
1218 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
1219 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
1220 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
1221 build errors in sieve.c.
1222
81ea09ca
NM
1223NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
1224 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
1225 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
1226
f13cddcb
SC
1227SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
1228
7d9f747b 1229NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 1230
7d9f747b 1231NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 1232
7d9f747b 1233NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
1234
1235
eb4c0de6
PH
1236Exim version 4.68
1237-----------------
1238
1239PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1240
6a3bceb1
PH
1241PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
1242 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
1243 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
1244 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
1245 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
1246 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
1247 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
1248 for iplsearch lookups.
1249
1250 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
1251 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
1252 previously such lookups could never work.
1253
1254 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
1255 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
1256 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
1257
2e30fa9d
TK
1258TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
1259 version.
1260
0806a9c5
MH
1261MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
1262 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
1263 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
1264 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
1265 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
1266 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
1267
ae276964
TK
1268TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
1269 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
1270
0f2cbd1b
MH
1271MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
1272 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
1273 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
1274 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
1275 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
1276 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
1277
2b85bce7
PH
1278PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
1279 local_scan API.
1280
93655c46
PH
1281PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
1282
6c512171
PH
1283PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
1284 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
1285 encrypted.
1286
1287PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
1288 by clients under certain conditions.
1289
aa6dc513
PH
1290PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
1291 "_responses" off the end of the name.
1292
a96603a0
PH
1293PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
1294
8f240103
PH
1295PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
1296 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
1297
1298PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
1299
d677b2f2
PH
1300PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
1301
d52120f2
PH
1302PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
1303
64f2600a
PH
1304PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
1305 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
1306
8669f003
PH
1307PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
1308
a4dc33a8
PH
1309PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
1310 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
1311
d6a60c0f
PH
1312PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1313
8f128379
PH
1314PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
1315
8932dffe
PH
1316PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
1317 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
1318 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
1319 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 1320
ddea74fa 1321PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
1322 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
1323 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
1324
ddea74fa 1325PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
1326 and InterBase are left for another time.)
1327
ddea74fa
PH
1328PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
1329
ce9f225c
PH
1330PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
1331
19897d52
PH
1332PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
1333
bc64a74d
PH
1334PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
1335 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
1336 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
1337
eb4c0de6 1338
b4ed4da0
PH
1339Exim version 4.67
1340-----------------
1341
22ad45c9
MH
1342MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
1343 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
1344 Jan Srzednicki.
1345
b4ed4da0
PH
1346PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
1347 issue a MAIL command.
1348
431b7361
PH
1349PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
1350
1351 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
1352
1353 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
1354 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
1355 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
1356 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
1357 item. This has been fixed.
1358
1359PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
1360 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
1361
83da1223
PH
1362PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
1363 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
1364
54fc8428
PH
1365PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
1366 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
1367 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
1368
34c5e8dd
SC
1369SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
1370
bbe15da8
PH
1371PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
1372 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
1373 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
1374 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
1375 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
1376
0e8a9471
MH
1377MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
1378 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
1379 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
1380
f0872424
PH
1381PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
1382 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
1383 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
1384 the server_setid option was incorrect.
1385
b01dd148
PH
1386PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
1387
6bf342e1
PH
1388PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
1389
273f34d0
PH
1390PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
1391 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
1392 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
1393 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
1394 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
1395
cf8b11a5
PH
1396PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
1397
41c7c167
PH
1398PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
1399 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
1400 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
1401 values).
1402
9c57cbc0
PH
1403PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
1404
f3f065bb
PH
1405PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
1406
047bdd8c
PH
1407PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
1408
0ce9abe6
PH
1409PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
1410
0e22dfd1
PH
1411PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
1412
4c590bd1
PH
1413PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
1414 no_callout_flush is set.
1415
09945f1e
PH
1416PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
1417 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
1418 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
1419 fixed.
1420
c51b8e75
PH
1421PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
1422
e28326d8
PH
1423PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
1424 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
1425 other ACL rejections are.
1426
75b1493f
PH
1427PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
1428 with slight modification.
1429
7c5214ec
PH
1430PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
1431 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
1432
4311097e
PH
1433PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
1434 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
1435 connection.
1436
29f89cad
PH
1437PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
1438 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
1439
5e687460
SC
1440SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
1441
c3611384
PH
1442PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
1443 expansion side effects.
1444
5a11a7b4
PH
1445PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
1446 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
1447 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
1448 be the same.
1449
0e20aff9
MH
1450MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
1451 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
1452 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
1453
ca86f471
PH
1454PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
1455 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
1456 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
1457 were accidentally chopped off.
1458
a14e5636
PH
1459PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
1460 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
1461 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
1462 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
1463 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
1464 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
1465 pipelining has not been advertised.
1466
ec95d1a6
PH
1467PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
1468
42855d71
PH
1469PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
1470 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
1471 This has been fixed.
1472
57c2c631
PH
1473PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
1474 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
1475 reported on Solaris.
1476
58c01c94
PH
1477PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
1478 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
1479 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
1480 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
1481 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
1482 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
1483 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
1484
dee5a20a
PH
1485PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
1486 cpus.
1487
d2ee6114
PH
1488PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
1489
b2d5182b
PH
1490PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
1491
79749a79
PH
1492PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
1493 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
1494 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
1495 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
1496 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
1497 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 1498
c456d9bb
PH
1499PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
1500 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
1501 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
1502 host_all_ignored option.
1503
cd9868ec
PH
1504PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
1505 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
1506 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
1507 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
1508 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
1509 is what is supposed to happen).
1510
ebeaf996
PH
1511PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
1512 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
1513 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
1514 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
1515 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
1516 uses the Exim user.
1517
2679d413
PH
1518PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
1519 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
1520 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
1521 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
1522 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
1523 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
1524 users.
1525
84024b72
PH
1526PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1527
8005d38e
SC
1528SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
1529 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
1530 (Jez Hancock).
1531 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
1532 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
1533
3298c6c6
SC
1534SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
1535
a43a27c5
PH
1536PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1537
58eb016e 1538PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
1539 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1540 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1541 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1542 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1543 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1544 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1545 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1546 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1547 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1548 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1549
b43a74ea
PH
1550PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1551 advertised in response to EHLO.
1552
b4ed4da0 1553
5dd1517f
PH
1554Exim version 4.66
1555-----------------
1556
1557PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1558 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1559
1560 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1561 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1562
1563 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1564 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1565 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1566
1567 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1568 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1569 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1570 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1571 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1572
1573
93cfa765
TK
1574Exim version 4.65
1575-----------------
1576
1577TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1578 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1579 versions. (#438)
1580
d6066548
MH
1581MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1582 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1583 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1584
4362ff0d
PH
1585PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1586 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1587 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1588 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1589 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1590 rather than extend the field.
1591
93cfa765 1592
944e9e9c
TF
1593Exim version 4.64
1594-----------------
aa41d2de 1595
21d74bd9
TK
1596TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1597 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1598 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1599 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1600 these files.
1601
1602TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1603 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1604 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1605
1606TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1607 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1608 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1609
1610TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1611 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1612 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1613 in the field name.
1614
2b1c6e3a
PH
1615PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1616 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1617 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1618 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1619 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1620 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1621 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1622 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1623 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1624 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1625 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1626
1f872c80
PH
1627PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1628 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1629
1630PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1631 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1632 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1633 ignores EPIPE as well.
1634
d203e649
PH
1635PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1636 (quoted-printable decoding).
1637
cc2ed8f7 1638PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1639 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1640
ddfcd446
PH
1641PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1642
d45b1de8
PH
1643PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1644
1645PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1646
38a0a95f 1647PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1648 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1649
a2405d83
JJ
1650JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1651 in 4.64-PH/09.
1652
1653JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1654 miscellaneous code fixes
1655
6ea85e9a
PH
1656PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1657 rejections.
1658
26da7e20
PH
1659PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1660 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1661 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1662 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1663 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1664 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1665 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1666 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1667
14aa5a05 1668PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1669 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1670 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1671 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1672 function.
1673 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1674 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1675 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1676 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1677 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1678 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1679 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1680 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1681 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1682
ff75a1f7
PH
1683PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1684 decoding.
1685
e6f6568e
PH
1686PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1687 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1688 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1689 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1690 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1691 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1692 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1693 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1694
d6f6e0dc
PH
1695PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1696 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1697 list.
1698
322050c2
PH
1699PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1700 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1701 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1702 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1703 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1704 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1705 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1706 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1707 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1708 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1709 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1710 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1711 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1712
08955dd3
PH
1713PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1714 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1715 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1716 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1717 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1718 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1719 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1720
1eccaa59
PH
1721PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1722 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1723 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1724 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1725 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1726 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1727 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1728 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1729 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1730 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1731
602e59e5
PH
1732PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1733 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1734 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1735 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1736 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1737
411ef850
PH
1738PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1739 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1740 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1741 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1742 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1743 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1744 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1745
7befa435
PH
1746PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1747 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1748 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1749 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1750 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1751 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1752 been verified.
1753
48da4259 1754PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1755 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1756 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1757 and authorization.)
1758
48da4259
PH
1759PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1760 if any retry times were supplied.
1761
d1d5595c
PH
1762PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1763 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1764 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1765
0ef732d9
PH
1766PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1767
328895cc
PH
1768PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1769
fd700877
PH
1770PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1771 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1772 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1773 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1774 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1775 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1776
8dce1a6f
PH
1777PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1778 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1779
17af4a17
PH
1780PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1781 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1782 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1783
1784PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1785 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1786 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1787 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1788 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1789 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1790 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1791 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1792 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1793
1794 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1795 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1796 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1797 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1798 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1799 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1800 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1801 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1802 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1803
1804 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1805 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1806 hammering the server.
1807
c1114884
PH
1808PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1809 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1810
7a0743eb
PH
1811PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1812
0d85fa3f
PH
1813PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1814 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1815 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1816
1bf43b78
PH
1817PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1818 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1819 one case where this was not true.
1820
520de300
PH
1821PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1822 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1823 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1824 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1825 fails.
1826
48c7f9e2
PH
1827PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1828 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1829 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1830 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1831 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1832 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1833 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1834 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1835 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1836 smtp transport.
1837
99ea1c86
PH
1838PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1839 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1840 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1841 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1842
a2042e78
PH
1843PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1844 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1845
4fbcfc2e
PH
1846PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1847 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1848 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1849
aa41d2de
PH
1850PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1851
af561417
PH
1852PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1853
3cc66b45
PH
1854PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1855
194cc0e4
PH
1856PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1857 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1858 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1859 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1860
a401ddaa
PH
1861PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1862 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1863
4e88a19f
PH
1864PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1865 be meaningful with "accept".
1866
d7d7b289
SC
1867SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1868 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1869
1870SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1871 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1872 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1873
1874SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1875 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1876 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1877 there is data to show.
1878 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1879
1880SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1881 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1882 as well as the number of messages.
1883
1884SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1885 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1886 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1887
1888SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1889 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1890 have a flag are now skipped.
1891
1892SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1893 Added the -emptyok flag.
1894
1895SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1896 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1897
0ea2a468
JJ
1898JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1899 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1900 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1901
1902JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1903 match 4.64-PH/13
1904
1905JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1906 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1907
1908JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1909
1910JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1911 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1912
8a10f5a4
PH
1913PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1914
30e18802
PH
1915PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1916 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1917 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1918 contravention of the specifications.
1919
55728a4f
PH
1920PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1921 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1922 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1923
d7837193
PH
1924PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1925 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1926 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1927
87054a31
PH
1928PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1929
ea2c01d2
MH
1930MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1931 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1932 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1933 some point in the past.
1934
e4fa6968
PH
1935PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1936 transport during callout processing was broken.
1937
56f5d9bd
PH
1938PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1939 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1940
922e1c28
PH
1941PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1942 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1943
21eb6e72
PH
1944PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1945 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1946
a0540757
PH
1947PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1948
944e9e9c 1949
478be7b0
SC
1950Exim version 4.63
1951-----------------
1952
1953SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1954 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1955
1956SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1957 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1958 there is data to show.
1959 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1960
1961SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1962 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1963
2b965a65
TF
1964TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1965 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1966
45b91596
PH
1967TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1968 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1969
c59f5781
TF
1970TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1971 submissions from trusted users.
1972
90fc3069
TF
1973TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1974 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1975
6083aca0
TF
1976TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1977 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1978 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1979 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1980 there is now a framework to start from.
1981
765b530f
PH
1982PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1983 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1984 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1985
4e167a8c
PH
1986PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1987
4608d683
PH
1988PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1989
b8dc3e4a
PH
1990PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1991
5418e93b
PH
1992PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1993 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1994 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1995
b4a9bda2
PH
1996PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1997 libradius.
1998
45b91596
PH
1999PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
2000 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
2001 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
2002
5547e2c5
PH
2003PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
2004 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
2005 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
2006 its arguments.
2007
dbcef0ea
PH
2008PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
2009 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
2010 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
2011 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
2012 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
2013
25257489
PH
2014PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
2015 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
2016
c816d124
PH
2017PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
2018
a9ccd69a
PH
2019PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
2020 operations in malware.c.
2021
75fa1910
PH
2022PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
2023 signatures.
2024
a7d7aa58
PH
2025PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
2026 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
2027 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
2028 all.
2029
42119b09
PH
2030PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
2031 statements to "add_header".
2032
41609df5
PH
2033PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
2034 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
2035
a5bd321b
PH
2036PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
2037 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
2038 latter.
2039
e85a7ad5 2040PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
2041 so that it is now:
2042
e85a7ad5
PH
2043 ${if or { \
2044 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
2045 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
2046 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
2047 }{no}{yes}}
2048
e85a7ad5
PH
2049 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
2050 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 2051
d8fe1c03
PH
2052PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
2053 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
2054
16282d2b
PH
2055PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
2056 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
2057 any possible encoding problems.
2058
35d40a98
PH
2059PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
2060 but not after initializing Perl.
2061
034d99ab
PH
2062PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
2063 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
2064 apparently, which is not desirable.
2065
6ec97b1b
PH
2066PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
2067 queries.
2068
e22ca4ac
JJ
2069JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
2070 --not options
2071
2072JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
2073
33d73e3b
PH
2074PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
2075 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
2076 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
2077 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
2078
9ecb03f3
PH
2079PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
2080 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
2081 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
2082
084efe8d
PH
2083PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
2084 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
2085 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
2086 0.12.
2087
366fc9f0
PH
2088PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
2089 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
2090 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
2091 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
2092 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
2093
c59f5781 2094
c887c79e
TF
2095Exim version 4.62
2096-----------------
2097
2098TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
2099 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
2100
1cce3af8
PH
2101PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
2102 patch).
2103
afb3eaaf
PH
2104PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
2105 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
2106 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
2107 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
2108 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
2109 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
2110 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
2111 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
2112 451 error is used.
2113
e173618b
PH
2114PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
2115
dd16e114
PH
2116PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
2117 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
2118 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
2119
f7fd3850
PH
2120PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
2121 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
2122 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
2123 odd errors.
2124
d87df92c
PH
2125PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
2126 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
2127
7e9f683d
PH
2128PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
2129 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
2130 option (which defaults to 0600).
2131
bfad5236
PH
2132PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2133
01c490df
PH
2134PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
2135 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
2136 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
2137 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
2138 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
2139 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
2140 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
2141
d6629cdc
PH
2142PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
2143
1cce3af8 2144
214e2000
PH
2145Exim version 4.61
2146-----------------
2147
2148PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
2149 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
2150 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
2151 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
2152 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
2153 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
2154 addresses as local.
2155
f9daeae0
PH
2156PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
2157 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
2158
7e66e54d
PH
2159PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
2160
c8ea1597
PH
2161PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
2162 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
2163 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
2164 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
2165 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
2166 grumble.
2167
911f6fde
PH
2168PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
2169 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
2170
47ca6d6c
PH
2171PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
2172 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
2173 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
2174 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
2175 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
2176
ed0e9820
PH
2177PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
2178 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
2179 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
2180 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
2181
eff37e47
PH
2182PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
2183 be the same on different OS.
2184
1921d2ea
PH
2185PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
2186 testing.
2187
b3f69ca8
JJ
2188JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
2189 whether --show-vars was specified or not
2190
2191JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
2192 in 4.61-PH/06
2193
424a1c63
PH
2194PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
2195 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
2196 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
2197 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
2198 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
2199 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
2200 bounce message.
2201
7a100415
PH
2202PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
2203 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
2204 when Exim was called.
2205
19b9dc85
PH
2206PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
2207 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
2208
309bd837
PH
2209PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
2210 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
2211 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
2212 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
2213
59e82a2a
PH
2214PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
2215 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
2216 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
2217 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
2218 changes:
2219
2220 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
2221 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
2222 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
2223
2224 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
2225 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
2226 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
2227
9edc04ce
PH
2228PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
2229 feature).
2230
1349e1e5
PH
2231PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
2232 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
2233 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
2234 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
2235 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
2236 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
2237 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
2238 values from the SRV records were lost.
2239
ea49d0e1
PH
2240PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
2241 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
2242 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
2243
064a94c9
PH
2244PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
2245 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
2246 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
2247
727071f8
PH
2248PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
2249 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
2250 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
2251 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
2252 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
2253 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
2254 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
2255 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
2256 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 2257 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 2258
f78eb7c6
PH
2259PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
2260 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
2261 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
2262
21c28500
PH
2263PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
2264 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
2265
2266PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
2267 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
2268 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
2269 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
2270 is given.
2271
1688f43b
PH
2272PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
2273 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
2274 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
2275
2276PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
2277 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
2278 PH/23 above applies.
2279
9675b384
PH
2280PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
2281 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
2282 (for which there is an explicit test).
2283
6a3f1455
PH
2284PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
2285
dac79d3e
PH
2286PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
2287 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
2288 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
2289 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
2290 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 2291
5977a0b3
PH
2292PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
2293 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
2294 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
2295 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
2296
c91535f3
PH
2297PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
2298 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
2299 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
2300
0d46a8c8
PH
2301PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
2302
278c6e6c
PH
2303PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
2304
2cbb4081
PH
2305PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
2306 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
2307 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
2308
3eef829e
PH
2309PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
2310 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
2311 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
2312 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
2313 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
2314
1ab95fa6
PH
2315PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
2316 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
2317 the message gets confusing).
2318
230205fc
PH
2319PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
2320 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
2321 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
2322 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
2323
75e0e026
PH
2324PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
2325 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
2326 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
2327 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
2328 same order.
2329
2330PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
2331 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
2332 the different processes.
2333
145396a6
PH
2334PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
2335
3cd34f13
PH
2336PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
2337
11121d3d
JJ
2338JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
2339 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
2340
2341JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
2342 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
2343
2344JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
2345 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
2346 messages matching specified criteria.
2347
8def5aaf
PH
2348PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
2349
929ba01c
PH
2350PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
2351 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
2352
2632889e
PH
2353PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
2354 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
2355 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
2356 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
2357 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
2358 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
2359 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
2360 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
2361 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
2362 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
2363
944a9c55
PH
2364PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
2365 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
2366 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
2367
4a23603b
PH
2368PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
2369
4730f942
PH
2370PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
2371 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
2372 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
2373 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
2374 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
2375 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
2376 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
2377 the variable.
2378
30dba1e6
PH
2379PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
2380 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
2381
382afc6b
PH
2382PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
2383
a86229cf
PH
2384PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
2385
50c99ba6
PH
2386PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2387
d35e429d
PH
2388PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
2389 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
2390 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
2391 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
2392 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
2393 size of the count of files.
2394
f90d018c
PH
2395PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
2396
75def545
PH
2397PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
2398 used in LMTP mode:
2399
2400 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
2401 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
2402 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
2403 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
2404
2405 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
2406 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
2407 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
2408
2409PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
2410 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
2411 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
2412 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
2413 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
2414
c46782ef
PH
2415PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
2416 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
2417
71fafd95
PH
2418PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
2419 will now be deprecated.
2420
2c5db4fd
PH
2421PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2422
9cf6b11a
JJ
2423JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
2424 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
2425 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
2426
2427JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
2428 with very large, slow to parse queues
2429
2430JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
2431
2432JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
2433
898d150f
PH
2434PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
2435 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
2436 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
2437 SMTP output lines.
2438
46218253
PH
2439PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
2440 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
2441 Sieve code now uses this.
2442
e97957bc
PH
2443PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
2444 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
2445
81e509d7
PH
2446PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
2447 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
2448
3d240ff7
PH
2449PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
2450
b37c4101
PH
2451PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
2452 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
2453 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
2454 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
2455 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
2456
79378e0f
PH
2457PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
2458 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
2459 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
2460 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
2461
e49c7bb4
PH
2462PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
2463
d114ec46
PH
2464PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
2465
f3d7df6c
PH
2466PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
2467 is preferred over IPv4.
2468
715ab376
PH
2469PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
2470 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
2471 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
2472 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
2473 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
2474 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
2475 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
2476
6b31b150
PH
2477PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
2478 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
2479 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
2480
2481PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
2482
d515a917
PH
2483PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
2484 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
2485 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
2486 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
2487 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
2488 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
2489 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
2490 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
2491 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
2492 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
2493 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
2494
9b8fadde
PH
2495PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
2496 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
2497 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
2498
214e2000 2499
5de37277
PH
2500Exim version 4.60
2501-----------------
2502
cc38ddbf
PH
2503PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
2504
2505 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
2506 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
2507
2508 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
2509 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
2510 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 2511
72fdd6ae
PH
2512PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
2513
2514 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
2515 not a single digit.
2516
2517 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
2518 string.
2519
2520 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
2521 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
2522 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
2523 silly things.
2524
2525 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
2526 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
2527
2528 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
2529 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 2530
cb741023
PH
2531PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
2532 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
2533 "/bin:/usr/bin".
2534
f174f16e
PH
2535PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
2536 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 2537
c25242d7
PH
2538PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
2539 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2540
2541 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2542
2543 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2544 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2545 this:
2546
2547 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2548
82c19f95
PH
2549PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2550 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2551 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2552 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2553 identical. For example:
2554
2555 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2556
2557 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2558 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2559 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2560
d7ffbc12
PH
2561PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2562 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2563 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2564 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2565
9f526266
PH
2566PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2567 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2568 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2569 message.
2570
87fcc8b9
PH
2571PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2572
2573 o fixes some comments
2574 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2575 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2576 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2577 and documents the missing references header update
2578
2579 and most important:
2580
2581 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2582 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2583 result)
2584
456682f5
PH
2585PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2586 Electronic Mail") by including:
2587
2588 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2589
2590 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2591 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2592 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2593 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2594 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2595
2596 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2597
2598 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2599
2600 The auto-replied keyword:
2601
2602 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2603 message by an automatic process,
2604
2605 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2606
2607 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2608 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2609
2610 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2611 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2612 other messages.
2613
3e46c1aa
PH
2614PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2615 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2616
49826d12
PH
2617PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2618
eba0c039
PH
2619PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2620 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2621 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2622
a0d6ba8a
PH
2623PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2624 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2625 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2626
f0917727
PH
2627PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2628 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2629 and treats the condition as false.
2630
096fee00
PH
2631PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2632
024bd3c2
PH
2633PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2634 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2635 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2636 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2637 not changing the active code.
2638
2639 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2640 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2641
2642 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2643 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2644
df199fec
PH
2645PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2646 (Bugzilla #53).
2647
d27f1df3
PH
2648PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2649 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2650 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2651 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2652 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2653 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2654 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2655 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2656 the text comparison.
2657
96776534
PH
2658PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2659 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2660 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2661 The same fix has been applied.
2662
5de37277 2663
9a799bc0
PH
2664Exim version 4.54
2665-----------------
2666
2667PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2668 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2669 It now does.
2670
99a4b039
PH
2671PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2672 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2673
2674PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2675
4b233853
PH
2676PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2677 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2678 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2679 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2680 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2681
8857ccfd
PH
2682TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2683 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2684 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2685 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2686 or /domain=).
2687
433a2980
PH
2688PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2689 testing suite.
2690
3e46c1aa 2691
9a799bc0 2692
e3a311ba
TK
2693Exim version 4.53
2694-----------------
2695
2696TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2697 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2698
13b685f9
PH
2699PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2700
395ff96d
PH
2701PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2702
5b68f6e4
PH
2703PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2704 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2705 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2706
1ab52c69
PH
2707PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2708 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2709 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2710
b07e6aa3
PH
2711PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2712 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2713 operating systems.
2714
254e032f
PH
2715PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2716 ${stat: expansion item.
2717
3af76a81
PH
2718PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2719 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2720
2548ba04
PH
2721PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2722 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2723 file for comments.
2724
b6c6011d
PH
2725PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2726
cf39cf57
PH
2727PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2728 setting.
2729
f1513293
PH
2730PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2731 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2732
727549a4
PH
2733TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2734
af46795e
PH
2735PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2736 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2737 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2738 the end of the subprocess.
2739
d7b47fd0
PH
2740PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2741 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2742 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2743 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2744 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2745
ee744174
JJ
2746JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2747
b582ab87
PH
2748TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2749
41a13e0a
PH
2750PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2751 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2752
f625cc5a
PH
2753PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2754
2755PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2756
21f7af35
PH
2757PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2758 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2759 HP-UX compiler.
2760
31480e42
PH
2761PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2762
2d280592
PH
2763PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2764 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2765 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2766
7cd1141b
PH
2767PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2768 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2769
2770PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2771 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2772
750af86e
PH
2773PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2774 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2775
2776 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2777 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2778
2779 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2780 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2781 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2782 contributed by a Radius user.
2783
2784PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2785 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2786
4304270b
TK
2787TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2788 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2789
750af86e
PH
2790PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2791 available.
2792
64ffc24f
PH
2793PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2794 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2795 received.
2796
5dd9625b
PH
2797PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2798 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2799 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2800 header lines when this was not necessary.
2801
5591031b
PH
2802PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2803
ba18e66a
PH
2804PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2805 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2806 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2807 exists".
2808
9cec981f
PH
2809PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2810 -bV or -d is used.
2811
aa2b5c79
PH
2812PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2813 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2814 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2815 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2816
48a53b7f
PH
2817PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2818
1c59d63b
PH
2819PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2820
671012da
TK
2821TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2822
1509d3a8
PH
2823PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2824
2825PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2826 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2827 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2828 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2829 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2830 settings.
2831
2832PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2833
2fe1a124
PH
2834PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2835 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2836 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2837 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2838 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2839 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2840 which is clearly wrong.
2841
8800895a
PH
2842PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2843
ccfdb010
PH
2844PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2845 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2846 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2847 subsequently added.
2848
1130bfb0
PH
2849PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2850 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2851
ebcb507f
PH
2852PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2853
c35e155c
PH
2854PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2855 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2856
95d1f782
PH
2857PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2858 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2859
fd6de02e
PH
2860PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2861 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2862
58de37c5
PH
2863PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2864 recipients, not senders.
2865
261cf466
TF
2866TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2867 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2868
3ee512ff
PH
2869PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2870
e08c430f
PH
2871PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2872
bef5a11f
PH
2873PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2874 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2875 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2876 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2877
7546de58
TF
2878TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2879
e5d5a95f
TF
2880TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2881 clock is set back in time.
2882
2e88a017
TF
2883TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2884 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2885
a5f65aa4
TF
2886TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2887 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2888
e7726cbf
PH
2889PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2890 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2891 (see PH/47 above).
2892
a7fdad5b
TF
2893TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2894 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2895 header rewrites.
2896
6af56900
PH
2897PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2898 type ("H").
2899
0925ede6
PH
2900PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2901
66afa403
TF
2902TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2903 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2904 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2905
0154e85a
TF
2906TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2907 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2908 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2909 helo verification defer as a failure.
2910
16f12c76
PH
2911PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2912 actual error message.
2913
bbe902f0 2914
e5a9dba6
PH
2915Exim version 4.52
2916-----------------
2917
2918TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2919
22c3b60b
PH
2920PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2921 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2922 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2923 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2924
06a9b4b5
PH
2925TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2926
c1ac6996
PH
2927PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2928 can still be requested.
2929
9c7a242c
PH
2930PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2931 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2932 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2933 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2934
87ba3f5f
PH
2935TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2936 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2937 circumstances, but probably never did.
2938
2939PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2940 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2941 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2942 in the header line.
2943
29aba418
TF
2944TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2945
fe0dab11
TF
2946TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2947 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2948
11d337a4
TK
2949TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2950
2951TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2952
415c8f3b
PH
2953PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2954 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2955 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2956 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2957 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2958 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2959
958541e9
PH
2960PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2961 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2962 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2963 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2964 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2965 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2966
c206415f
TK
2967TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2968 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2969
2a4be8f9
PH
2970PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2971 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2972
1cba11c5
SC
2973SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2974 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2975
2976SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2977
2978SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2979
2980SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2981
2982SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2983
2984SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2985
2986SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2987
1005d00e
TK
2988TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2989
2990TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2991 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2992 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2993
2994TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2995 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2996 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2997 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2998
9b4768fa
PH
2999PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
3000 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
3001 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
3002
3003PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
3004 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
3005 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
3006 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
3007
0d7eb84a
PH
3008PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
3009 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
3010 to be made).
3011
3012PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
3013 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
3014 should work with maildirs and everything.
3015
40727bee
TK
3016TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
3017 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
3018
554d2369
TF
3019TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
3020 <jgh@wizmail.org>
3021
1f922db1
PH
3022PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
3023 function for BDB 4.3.
3024
ef213c3b
PH
3025PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
3026
8ac170f3
PH
3027PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
3028 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
3029 involved.
3030
b1c749bb
PH
3031PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
3032 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
3033 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
3034 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
3035 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
3036 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 3037
4aac9b49
PH
3038PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
3039 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
3040 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
3041 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
3042 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
3043 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
3044 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
3045 falls back to the previous guessing code."
3046
294520c8
TK
3047TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
3048 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
3049 details.
3050
5bd022fe
PH
3051PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
3052 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
3053
90e9ce59
PH
3054PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
3055 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
3056 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
3057 test. It is now used for both.
3058
5ea81592
PH
3059PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
3060 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
3061 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
3062 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
3063 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
3064 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
3065
c6c2dc1d
PH
3066PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
3067 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
3068 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
3069 string_vformat().
3070
fffffe4c
PH
3071PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
3072 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
3073 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 3074
9a26b6b2
PH
3075PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
3076 experimental DomainKeys support:
3077
3078 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
3079 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
3080 the control was given.
3081
3082 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
3083
4aee0225
PH
3084PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
3085
32d668a5
PH
3086PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
3087
8187c3f3
PH
3088PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
3089 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
3090 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
3091 db.h files).
3092
ff790e47 3093PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
3094 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
3095 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
3096 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
3097 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
3098 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
3099 course.
ff790e47 3100
5417f6d1
PH
3101PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
3102 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
3103 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
3104 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
3105 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
3106 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
3107
59cf8544
PH
3108PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
3109 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
3110 do -d+all out of habit.
3111
e7ad8a65
PH
3112PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
3113 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
3114 x86_64 Fedora Core.
3115
ade42478
PH
3116PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
3117 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
3118 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
3119 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
3120 record types that Exim uses.
3121
182ad5cf
PH
3122PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
3123 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
3124 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
3125 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
3126 non-existent file that was broken.
3127
b0d9fc80
TK
3128TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
3129 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
3130
3131TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
3132 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
3133 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
3134
3135TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
3136
47c7a64a
PH
3137PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
3138 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
3139 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
3140 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
3141 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
3142 same time.
3143
a388bce4
SC
3144SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
3145 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
3146 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
3147 at a slight CPU cost.
3148
3149SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
3150 as requested by Marc Sherman.
3151
3152SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
3153 by Marc Sherman.
3154
0793e4ed
SC
3155SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
3156
c58b88df
PH
3157PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
3158 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
3159
e7ad8a65 3160
7982096b
PH
3161Exim version 4.51
3162-----------------
3163
1a46a8c5
PH
3164TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
3165 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
3166
2f079f46 3167TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
3168
3169TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
3170
3171PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
3172 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
3173
3174PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
3175 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
3176 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
3177 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
3178 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
3179 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
3180 file.
3181
3182PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
3183 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
3184 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
3185 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
3186 these two options.
3187
3188PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
3189 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
3190 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
3191 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
3192 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
3193 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
3194 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 3195 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
3196
3197PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
3198 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
3199
3200PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
3201 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
3202 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
3203 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
3204 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
3205 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
3206
3207PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
3208 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
3209 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
3210 SMTP commands that take arguments.
3211
3212PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
3213 Finch).
3214
3215PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
3216 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 3217
49c2d5ea
PH
3218PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
3219 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
3220 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
3221 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
3222 message.
49c2d5ea 3223
bf759a8b
PH
3224PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
3225
83364d30
PH
3226PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
3227 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
3228
7999bbd7
PH
3229PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
3230 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
3231 to what was transported.)
3232
7dbf77c9
PH
3233TF/01 Added $received_time.
3234
74e0617f
PH
3235PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
3236 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
3237 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
3238 spamd_address settings.
3239
2f079f46
PH
3240PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
3241 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
3242 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
3243 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
3244 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
3245
8c841523
PH
3246PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3247
7766a4f0
PH
3248PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
3249 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
3250 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
3251 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
3252 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
3253
8b417f2c
PH
3254PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
3255 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
3256
901f42cb
PH
3257PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
3258 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
3259 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
3260 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
3261 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
3262 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
3263 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
3264 for failure.
3265
f9b9210e
PH
3266PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
3267 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
3268 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
3269 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
3270 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
3271 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
3272 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
3273 "input=".
3274
54cdb463
PH
3275PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
3276
cf00dad6
PH
3277PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
3278 driver and ACL definitions.
3279
acb1b346
PH
3280PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
3281 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
3282
c5ddb310
PH
3283PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
3284 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
3285 understands it better than I do:
3286
3287 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
3288 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
3289
3290 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
3291 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
3292 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
3293 => three warnings about OTP not working
3294 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
3295
3296 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
3297 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
3298 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
3299 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
3300 for each call.)
3301 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
3302 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
3303
3304 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
3305 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
3306 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
3307
31619da6
PH
3308PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
3309 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
3310 specified.
3311
bebaf0fc
PH
3312PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
3313 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
3314 "Linux".
3315
475fe28a
PH
3316PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
3317 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
3318 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
3319
3320 warn !verify = sender
3321 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
3322
3323 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
3324 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
3325
7e8bec7a
PH
3326PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
3327
3328 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
3329 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
3330
3331 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
3332 nomenclature these days.)
3333
e4a89c47
PH
3334PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
3335 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
3336
5ca2a9a1
PH
3337PH/30 In these circumstances:
3338 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
3339 . First host does not offer TLS;
3340 . First host accepts first address;
3341 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
3342 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
3343 . Second host accepts second address.
3344 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
3345 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
3346 address.
7e8bec7a 3347
c688b954
PH
3348PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
3349 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
3350 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
3351 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
3352 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
3353
fed77020
PH
3354PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
3355 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
3356
7fe1560f
PH
3357PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
3358 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 3359
ebb6e6d5
PH
3360PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
3361 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
3362 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
3363
9c4e8f60
PH
3364PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
3365 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
3366 overlooked.
3367
3368PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
3369
d7174846
PH
3370PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
3371 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
3372 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
3373 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
3374 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
3375 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
3376 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
3377
3378 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
3379 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
3380 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
3381 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
3382 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
3383
3384 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
3385 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
3386 routed further.
3387
cfe75fc3
PH
3388PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
3389 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
3390 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
3391 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
3392 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
3393 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
3394
be22d70e
PH
3395PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
3396
0612b098
PH
3397PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
3398 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
3399 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
3400 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
3401 printable escape sequences.
3402
2e0c1448
PH
3403PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
3404 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
3405 body only.
3406
447d236c
PH
3407PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
3408 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
3409 are as follows:
3410
3411 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
3412 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
3413 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
3414 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
3415 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
3416
3417 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
3418 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
3419 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
3420
d20976dc
PH
3421PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
3422
f656d135
PH
3423PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
3424 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
3425 play with."
3426
2e2a30b4
PH
3427PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
3428 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
3429 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
3430 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
3431 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
3432 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
3433 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
3434 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
3435 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
3436 the log output.
3437
9176e9f0
PH
3438PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
3439 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
3440 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
3441 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
3442 "make".
3443
7982096b 3444
bbe902f0
PH
3445A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
3446----------------------------------------
3447
3448Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
3449changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
3450needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
3451in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
3452that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
3453release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
3454from 4.43.
3455
3456I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
34574.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
3458those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
3459historical information.
3460
3461
f7b63901 3462Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
3463-----------------
3464
5fe762f6
PH
3465 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3466
139059f6 3467 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 3468 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 3469
7086e875
PH
3470 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3471 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3472 place.
3473
35af9f61
PH
3474 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3475 filter fails to execute.
3476
b668c215
PH
3477 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3478 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3479 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3480 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3481 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3482
a494b1e1
PH
3483 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
3484
3485 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3486 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3487 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3488 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 3489
c5fcb476
PH
3490 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3491 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3492 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3493 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3494 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3495
69358f02
PH
3496 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
3497
5be20824
PH
349810. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3499
eb2c0248
PH
350011. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3501 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3502 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3503 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3504
2a3eea10
PH
350512. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3506 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3507 sender verification.
3508
350913. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
3510 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
3511
23c7ff99
PH
351214. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
3513
4deaf07d
PH
351415. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
3515 connection timeout.
3516
926e1192
PH
351716. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3518 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3519
650edc6f
PH
352017. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3521 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3522
2c7db3f5
PH
352318. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
3524 information about exactly what failed.
3525
3d235903
PH
352619. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
3527
7c7ad977
PH
352820. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
3529 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
3530 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
3531
981756db
PH
353221. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
3533 It is now set to "smtps".
3534
d4eb88df
PH
353522. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3536 ignore_target_hosts.
3537
353823. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3539 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3540 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3541 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3542 "[x.x.x.x]".
3543
7d468ab8
PH
354424. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3545 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3546 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3547
354825. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3549 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3550 wake it up if nothing else does.
3551
62c0818f
PH
355226. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3553 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3554 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3555 end up negative.
3556
26034054
PH
355727. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3558 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3559
af66f652
PH
356028. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3561
90af77f4
PH
356229. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3563 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3564 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3565 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3566 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3567 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3568 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3569 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3570
d8ef3577
PH
357130. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3572 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3573 than one IP address.
3574
5cb8cbc6
PH
357531. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3576 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3577 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3578 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3579
14702f5b
PH
358032. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3581 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3582 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3583 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3584 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3585 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3586
063b1e99
PH
358733. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3588 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3589 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3590 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3591
652e1b65
PH
359234. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3593 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3594 respected.
3595
6f0c9a4f
PH
359635. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3597 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3598 $sender_host_address.
3599
33397d19
PH
360036. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3601 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3602 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3603 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3604 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3605 very small.
3606
7bb56e1f
PH
360737. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3608
3609 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3610 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3611
ea3bc19b
PH
3612 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3613 just the host names, not the priorities.
3614
3615 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3616 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3617 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3618
ea3bc19b 3619 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3620 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3621
0bcb2a0e
PH
362238. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3623 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3624 domain.
3625
2ac0e484
PH
362639. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3627
4e1fde53
PH
362840. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3629 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3630
de365ded
PH
363141. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3632 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3633 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3634
f05da2e8
PH
363542. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3636
d6453af2
PH
363743. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3638
f7b63901
PH
363944. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3640
364145. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3642 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3643 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3644 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3645 because the tests only now provoked it.
3646
a444213a
PH
364746. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3648 (this can affect the format of dates).
3649
0ec020ea
PH
365047. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3651 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3652 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3653 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3654
b1206957
PH
365548. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3656
365749. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3658 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3659 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3660 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3661
26dd5a95
PH
366250. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3663 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3664 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3665
343b2385
PH
366651. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3667 autoreply.
3668
1c5466b9
PH
366952. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3670 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3671 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3672 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3673 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3674 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3675 is going on).
3676
55ee9ee3
PH
367753. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3678 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3679 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3680 the line.
3681
d38f8232
PH
368254. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3683 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3684 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3685
3686 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3687 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3688 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3689 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3690 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3691 so I produce this patch..."
3692
3295e65b
PH
3693 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3694 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3695 is not defined.
3696
7102e136
PH
369755. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3698 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3699 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3700 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3701 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3702
3ca0ba97
PH
370356. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3704
c2bcbe20
PH
370557. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3706 long debug lines gets shown.
3707
18ce445d
PH
370858. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3709 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3710
1f5b4c3d
PH
371159. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3712
3713 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3714 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3715 of $primary_hostname.
3716
b975ba52
PH
371760. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3718 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3719 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3720 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3721 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3722 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3723 by change 4.50/55 above.
3724
3725 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3726 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3727 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3728 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3729 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3730 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3731 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3732
373361. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3734 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3735 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3736 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3737
17ffcae7
PH
373862. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3739 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3740
d95f9fdb
PH
374163. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3742 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3743 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3744 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3745 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3746
86b8287f
PH
374764. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3748 This has been fixed.
3749
60dc5e56
PH
375065. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3751 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3752 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3753 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3754 the caching.)
3755
533244af
PH
375666. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3757
a5a28604
PH
375867. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3759 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3760 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3761 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3762
7e634d24
PH
376368. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3764 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3765
3e11c26b
PH
376669. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3767 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3768 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3769
6729cf78
PH
377070. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3771 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3772 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3773 message there.
3774
00f00ca5
PH
377571. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3776 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3777 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3778
c9bdd01c
PH
377972. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3780 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3781 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3782 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3783
d43194df
PH
378473. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3785 during host lookups.
3786
fe5b5d0b
PH
378774. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3788 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3789
3790 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3791
76a2d7ba
PH
379275. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3793 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3794 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3795 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3796 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3797 background.
3798
379976. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3800 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3801
04f7d5b9
PH
380277. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3803 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3804 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3805
bc60667e
PH
380678. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3807
bb6e88ff
PH
380879. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3809 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3810 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3811 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3812 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3813 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3814 process earlier.
3815
1e70f85b
PH
381680. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3817 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3818 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3819 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3820 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3821
382281. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3823 tables).
3824
4e01f9d6
PH
382582. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3826
1ee1cef2
PH
382783. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3828 "vacation" handling.
3829
6e2b4ccc
PH
383084. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3831 OS variants using glibc.
3832
8e669ac1
PH
383385. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3834
495ae4b0 3835
bbe902f0
PH
3836----------------------------------------------------
3837See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3838----------------------------------------------------
3839
3840
3841Exim version 4.44
3842-----------------
3843
3844 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3845 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3846 transport
3847
3848 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3849 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3850 place.
3851
3852 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3853 filter fails to execute.
3854
3855 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3856 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3857 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3858 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3859 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3860
3861 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3862 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3863 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3864 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3865
3866 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3867 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3868 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3869 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3870 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3871
3872 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3873
3874 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3875 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3876 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3877 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3878
3879 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3880 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3881 sender verification.
3882
388310. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3884 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3885
388611. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3887 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3888
388912. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3890 ignore_target_hosts.
3891
389213. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3893 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3894 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3895 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3896 "[x.x.x.x]".
3897
389814. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3899 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3900 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3901
390215. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3903 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3904 wake it up if nothing else does.
3905
390616. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3907 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3908 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3909 end up negative.
3910
391117. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3912 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3913
ea3a6f44 391418. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3915
391619. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3917 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3918 empty pattern.
3919
392020. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3921 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3922 one IP address.
3923
ea3a6f44
NM
392421. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3925 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3926 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3927 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3928 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3929 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3930
ea3a6f44
NM
393122. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3932 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3933 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3934
393523. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3936 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3937 $sender_host_address.
3938
393924. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3940
ea3a6f44
NM
394125. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3942 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3943 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3944
394526. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3946 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3947
ea3a6f44
NM
394827. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3949 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3950
ea3a6f44
NM
395128. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3952 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3953 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3954 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3955
395629. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3957 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3958 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3959
ea3a6f44
NM
396030. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3961 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3962 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3963 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3964
ea3a6f44
NM
396531. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3966 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3967 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3968
ea3a6f44
NM
396931. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3970 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3971
ea3a6f44
NM
397232. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3973 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3974 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3975 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3976 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3977 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3978 is going on).
bbe902f0 3979
ea3a6f44
NM
398033. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3981 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3982 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3983 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3984 CAN-2005-0021
3985
ea3a6f44
NM
398634. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3987 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3988 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3989 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3990 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3991 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3992 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3993
3994 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3995 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3996 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3997 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3998 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3999 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
4000 CAN-2005-0021
4001
ea3a6f44
NM
400235. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4003 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4004 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
4005 CAN-2005-0022
4006
ea3a6f44
NM
400736. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4008 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4009 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4010 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4011 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 4012
ea3a6f44
NM
401337. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4014 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4015 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4016 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4017 the caching.)
bbe902f0 4018
ea3a6f44
NM
401938. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4020 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4021 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4022 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4023 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
4024
4025
495ae4b0
PH
4026Exim version 4.43
4027-----------------
4028
4029 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
4030 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
4031 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
4032 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
4033 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
4034 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
4035 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
4036
4037 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
4038 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
4039 the delivery.
4040
4041 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
4042
4043 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
4044
4045 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
4046 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
4047 to local_scan().
4048
4049 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
4050 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
4051 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
4052 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
4053 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
4054
4055 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
4056 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
4057
4058 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
4059
4060 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
4061
406210. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
4063 header_sender only.
4064
406511. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
4066 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
4067
406812. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
4069 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
4070 affecting debugging statements).
4071
407213. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
4073
407414. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
4075 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
4076 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
4077 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
4078 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
4079 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
4080 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
4081 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
4082 after the received time, and all would be well.
4083
408415. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
4085 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
4086 condition in an expansion string.
4087
408816. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
4089
409017. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
4091 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
4092 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
4093 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
4094 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
4095 job under whatever limits there are.
4096
409718. Imported PCRE 5.0.
4098
409919. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
4100 space).
4101
410220. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
4103 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
4104 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
4105 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
4106 return path is set.
4107
410821. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
4109 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
4110 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
4111 binary data in such strings.
4112
411322. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
4114
411523. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
4116 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
4117 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
4118 failure, which is pointless.
4119
412024. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
4121
412225. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
4123
412426. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
4125 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
4126 Sender: header lines.
4127
412827. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
4129 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
4130 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
4131
413228. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
4133 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
4134 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
4135 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
4136 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
4137 happens.
4138
413929. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
4140 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
4141 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
4142 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
4143 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
4144
414530. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
4146 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
4147 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
4148 1024.
4149
415031. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
4151 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
4152
415332. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
4154 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
4155
415633. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
4157
415832. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
4159
416033. Added an ACL for QUIT.
4161
416234. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
4163 syntax error.
4164
416535. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
4166
416736. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
4168
416937. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
4170 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
4171 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
4172 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
4173
417438. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
4175 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
4176
4177
4178Exim version 4.42
4179-----------------
4180
4181 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
4182 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
4183 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
4184 it was not quoted.
4185 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
4186 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
4187 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
4188 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
4189 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
4190 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
4191
4192 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
4193 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
4194 verification failure".
4195
4196 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
4197 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
4198 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
4199 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
4200
4201 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
4202 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
4203 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
4204 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
4205 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
4206 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
4207 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
4208 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
4209 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
4210 treated as a timeout.
4211
4212 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
4213 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
4214 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
4215 not set for Exim filters).
4216
4217 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
4218 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
4219 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
4220
4221 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
4222
4223 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
4224 try to make them clearer.
4225
4226 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
4227 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
4228
4229 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
4230
4231 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
4232
423310. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
4234 only the Cygwin environment.
4235
423611. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
4237 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
4238 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
4239 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
4240 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
4241
424212. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
4243 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
4244 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
4245 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
4246 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
4247 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
4248 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
4249
425013. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
4251 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
4252
425314. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
4254
4255 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
4256 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
4257 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
4258
4259 To: susanne@some.where
4260
4261 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
4262 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
4263 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
4264 of addresses in From: header lines).
4265
4266 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
4267 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
4268 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
4269
4270 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
4271 treated as non-personal.
4272
4273 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
4274 because it now seems ill-conceived.
4275
427615. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
4277
427816. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
4279
428017. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
4281 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
4282 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
4283
428418. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
4285 ACL and the local_scan() function.
4286
428719. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
4288 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
4289 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
4290 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
4291 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
4292 (I found it when inspecting the code).
4293
429420. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
4295 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
4296 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
4297 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
4298 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
4299 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
4300 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
4301 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
4302
4303 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
4304
430521. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
4306 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
4307
430822. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
4309 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
4310 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
4311
431223. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
4313 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
4314
431524. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
4316 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
4317 rather than long int.
4318
431925. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4320
432126. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
4322
4323
4324Exim version 4.41
4325-----------------
4326
4327 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
4328 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
4329 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
4330 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
4331 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
4332 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
4333
4334
4335Exim version 4.40
4336-----------------
4337
4338 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
4339 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
4340
4341 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
4342 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
4343 socklen_t is defined.
4344
4345 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
4346 always exist.
4347
4348 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
4349 configured.
4350
4351 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
4352 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
4353 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
4354 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
4355 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
4356
4357 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
4358 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
4359 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
4360 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
4361
4362 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
4363 of flapping under certain conditions.
4364
4365 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
4366 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
4367 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
4368
4369 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4370
437110. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
4372
437311. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
4374 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
4375 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
4376 the duration of the SMTP connection.
4377
437812. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
4379 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
4380 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
4381 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
4382 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
4383 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
4384 preserved with the message after it was received.
4385
438613. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
4387 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
4388 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
4389 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
4390 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
4391 test suite worked just fine.
4392
439314. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
4394 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
4395 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
4396
439715. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
4398 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
4399 string.
4400
440116. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
4402 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
4403 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
4404 does not fully solve it.
4405
440617. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
4407 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
4408 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
4409 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
4410 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
4411
441218. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
4413 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
4414 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
4415
441619. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
4417 string, for example:
4418
4419 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
4420
4421 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
4422 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
4423 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
4424 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
4425 the routers could not see them.
4426
442720. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
4428 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
4429
443021. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
4431 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
4432 output).
4433
443422. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
4435 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
4436 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
4437 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
4438 that needed quoting.
4439
444023. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
4441 was not being matched caselessly.
4442
444324. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
4444 backslashes.
4445
444625. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
4447 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
4448 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
4449 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
4450 when use_sender is false.
4451
445226. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
4453
445427. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
4455
445628. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
4457
445829. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
4459 the configuration file.
4460
446130. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
4462 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
4463
446431. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
4465
446632. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
4467 bytes in the message body.
4468
446933. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
4470 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
4471 delivery.
4472
447334. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
4474
447535. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
4476
447736. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
4478 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
4479 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
4480 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
4481 another IP address.
4482
4483
4484Exim version 4.34
4485-----------------
4486
4487 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
4488 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
4489
4490 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
4491 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
4492 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
4493 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
4494 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
4495
4496 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
4497 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
4498
4499 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
4500 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
4501 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
4502
4503 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
4504 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
4505 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
4506
4507 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
4508 for routers.
4509
4510 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
4511 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
4512 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
4513 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
4514 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
4515 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
4516 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
4517
4518
4519Exim version 4.33
4520-----------------
4521
4522 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
4523 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
4524 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
4525 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
4526 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
4527 default (and expected) setting.
4528
4529 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
4530 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
4531 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
4532 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
4533
4534 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
4535 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
4536
4537 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
4538 in domain lists.
4539
4540 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4541 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4542 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4543 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4544 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4545 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4546
4547 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4548 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4549 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4550
4551 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4552 part (NOT match_host).
4553
4554 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4555
4556 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4557 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4558 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4559 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4560 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4561 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4562 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4563 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4564 the same named file.
4565
456610. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4567 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4568 when Exim is built.
4569
457011. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4571 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4572 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4573 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4574 a host name.
4575
457612. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4577 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4578 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4579
458013. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4581
458214. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4583
458415. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4585
458616. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4587 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4588
458917. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4590 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4591 before starting the TLS session.
4592
459318. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4594
459519. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4596 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4597
459820. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4599 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4600 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4601 colon in the middle).
4602
4603
4604Exim version 4.32
4605-----------------
4606
4607 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4608 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4609 multiple configurations are in use.
4610
4611 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4612 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4613 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4614 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4615 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4616 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4617
4618 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4619 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4620
4621 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4622 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4623 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4624
4625 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4626 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4627 occurs.
4628
4629 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4630 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4631
4632 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4633
4634 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4635 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4636
4637 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4638
4639 -prval:sval
4640
4641 is equivalent to
4642
4643 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4644
4645 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4646 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4647 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4648 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4649 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4650
465110. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4652 Exim's behaviour:
4653
4654 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4655 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4656 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4657 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4658 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4659 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4660
4661 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4662 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4663 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4664 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4665 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4666 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4667 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4668 string.
4669
4670 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4671 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4672 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4673 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4674 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4675
467611. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4677
467812. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4679 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4680 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4681
468213. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4683
468414. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4685 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4686 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4687 information.
4688
468915. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4690 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4691
469216. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4693 Three changes have been made:
4694
4695 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4696 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4697 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4698 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4699 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4700
4701 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4702 been restored.
4703
4704 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4705 the modified behaviour.
4706
4707
4708Exim version 4.31
4709-----------------
4710
4711 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4712 Larry Rosenman.
4713
4714 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4715 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4716
4717 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4718 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4719 try to track down a specific problem.
4720
4721 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4722 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4723 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4724
4725 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4726 warning.
4727
4728 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4729 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4730 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4731 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4732 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4733 some earlier ones do not.
4734
4735 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4736
4737 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4738 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4739 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4740 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4741 address literals are enabled, of course).
4742
4743 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4744
474510. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4746 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4747 by a command such as
4748
4749 exim -f "" ...
4750
4751 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4752
475311. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4754
475512. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4756 remained set. It is now erased.
4757
475813. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4759 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4760
476114. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4762 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4763 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4764 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4765 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4766 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4767 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4768 appropriate error code.
4769
477015. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4771 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4772 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4773 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4774 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4775 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4776
477716. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4778 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4779 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4780
478117. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4782 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4783 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4784 terminate the header.
4785
478618. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4787 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4788 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4789
479019. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4791 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4792 (4.30/29). In particular:
4793
4794 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4795 imposed.
4796
4797 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4798 to write a maildirsize file.
4799
4800 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4801 the transport, the new value overrides.
4802
4803 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4804 count.
4805
480620. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4807 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4808 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4809 space or a tab.
4810
481121. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4812 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4813 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4814 the fallback hosts.
4815
481622. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4817 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4818 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4819
482023. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4821 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4822 using a union.
4823
482424. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4825 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4826 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4827
482825. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4829
483026. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4831
483227. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4833
483428. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4835 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4836 become corrupted.
4837
483829. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4839 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4840 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4841 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4842 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4843 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4844 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4845 too great.
4846
484730. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4848 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4849 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4850 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4851 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4852 incorrectly.
4853
485431. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4855 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4856 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4857 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4858 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4859 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4860 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4861 cached value only when the same options are set.
4862
486332. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4864
486533. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4866 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4867 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4868 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4869 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4870
487134: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4872 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4873 it is clearly obsolete.
4874
487535. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4876 transport.
4877
487836. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4879 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4880 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4881 times.
4882
488337. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4884 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4885 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4886 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4887 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4888
488938. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4890 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4891 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4892 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4893
489439. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4895
4896 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4897
4898 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4899 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4900 2^31.
4901
490240. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4903 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4904 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4905 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4906 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4907 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4908 $localpart_data.
4909
491041. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4911 with the -f command-line option.
4912
491342. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4914 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4915 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4916 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4917 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4918 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4919
492043. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4921 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4922 line.
4923
492444. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4925 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4926 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4927 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4928 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4929 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4930 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4931 buffer is too small.
4932
493345. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4934 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4935
493646. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4937 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4938 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4939 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4940 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4941 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4942 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4943 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4944 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4945
494647. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4947 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4948 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4949
495048. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4951 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4952 ACL").
4953
495449. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4955 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4956 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4957 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4958 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4959
496050. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4961 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4962 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4963 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4964 is set.
4965
496651. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4967
496852. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4969
497053. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4971 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4972
497354. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4974 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4975 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4976
497755. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4978 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4979 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4980 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4981 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4982
498356. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4984 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4985 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4986 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4987 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4988 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4989 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4990
499157. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4992 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4993 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4994 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4995 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4996 the test of how many are available.
4997
499858. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4999 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
5000 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
5001 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
5002 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
5003 new message is started.
5004
500559. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
5006 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
5007
500860. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
5009 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
5010
501161. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
5012 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
5013 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
5014 is no long logged.
5015
501662. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
5017 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
5018 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
5019 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
5020 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
5021 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
5022 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
5023
502463. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
5025 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
5026 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
5027 interpreted as octal.
5028
502964. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
5030 setting.
5031
503265. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
5033 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
5034 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
5035 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
5036 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
5037 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
5038
503966. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
5040 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
5041 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
5042 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
5043
5044 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
5045 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
5046 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
5047 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
5048
5049 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
5050 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
5051 is a bug fix.
5052
5053 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
5054 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
5055
505667. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5057
505868. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
5059 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
5060 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
5061 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
5062
506369. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
5064 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
5065 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
5066 supplied", which is not helpful.
5067
506870. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
5069 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
5070 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
5071
507271. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
5073 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
5074 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
5075 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
5076 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
5077 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
5078 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
5079 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
5080
508172. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
5082 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
5083 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
5084 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
5085 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
5086
508773. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
5088 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
5089 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
5090 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
5091 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
5092 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
5093
509474. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
5095 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
5096 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
5097
509875. Added write_rejectlog option.
5099
510076. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
5101 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
5102 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
5103 variables.
5104
510577. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
5106
510778. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
5108 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
5109 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
5110 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
5111 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
5112 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
5113 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
5114 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
5115
511679. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
5117 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
5118 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
5119 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
5120 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
5121
512280. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
5123 Haardt.
5124
512581. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
5126 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
5127 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
5128 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
5129 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
5130 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
5131 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
5132 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
5133 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
5134
5135
5136Exim version 4.30
5137-----------------
5138
5139 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
5140 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
5141 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
5142
5143 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
5144 fixed.
5145
5146 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
5147 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
5148 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
5149
5150 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
5151 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
5152 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
5153 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
5154 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
5155 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
5156
5157 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
5158 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
5159 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
5160 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
5161 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
5162 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
5163 the Exim test suite.
5164
5165 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
5166 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
5167 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
5168 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
5169
5170 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
5171 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
5172 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
5173 specify it in this variable.
5174
5175 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
5176 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
5177 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
5178 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
5179
5180 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
5181 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
5182 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
5183 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
5184
5185 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
5186 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
5187 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
5188 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
5189 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
5190
5191 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
5192
519310. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
5194 they are logged.
5195
519611. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
5197 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
5198 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
5199 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
5200 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
5201
520212. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
5203 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
5204
520513. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
5206 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
5207 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
5208 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
5209 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
5210
521114. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
5212 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
5213
521415. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
5215 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5216 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
5217
521816. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
5219 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
5220
522117. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
5222 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
5223
522418. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
5225 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
5226 to get rid of the compiler warning.
5227
522819. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
5229 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
5230
523120. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
5232 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
5233 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
5234 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
5235
523621. Added the -t option to exigrep.
5237
523822. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
5239 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
5240 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
5241 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
5242
524323. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
5244
524524. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
5246 line; previously there was no indication of these.
5247
524825. Added .include_if_exists.
5249
525026. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
5251 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
5252 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
5253 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
5254 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
5255 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
5256
525727. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
5258
525928. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
5260 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
5261 this.
5262
526329. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
5264
526530. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
5266 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
5267
5268 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
5269 550 Sender verify failed
5270
5271 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
5272 the final line of the response.
5273
527431. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
5275 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
5276 all other user lookups.
5277
527832. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
5279 delivery time.
5280
528133. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
5282 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
5283 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
5284 result into an int without checking.
5285
528634. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
5287 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
5288 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
5289
529035. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
5291 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
5292 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
5293 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
5294
529536. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
5296 correctly.
5297
529837. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
5299 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
5300
530138. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
5302 to the empty sender.
5303
530439. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
5305 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
5306 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
5307 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
5308 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
5309 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
5310 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
5311 panic log.
5312
531340. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
5314 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
5315 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
5316 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
5317 used.
5318
531941. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
5320 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
5321
532242. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
5323 timestamps.
5324
532543. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
5326 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
5327
532844. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
5329
533045. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
5331 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
5332 logs.
5333
533446. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
5335 as soon as it is encountered.
5336
533747. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
5338
533948. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
5340 rewritten to "<>".
5341
534249. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
5343 recognizes a tab character.
5344
534550. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
5346 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
5347 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
5348 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
5349
535051. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
5351
535252. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
5353 crash.
5354
535553. Installed eximstats 1.29.
5356
535754. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
5358
535955. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
5360 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
5361 2822.
5362
536356. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
5364 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
5365 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
5366 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
5367 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
5368
536957. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
5370 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
5371
537258. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
5373 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
5374 list (.included file names were always shown).
5375
537659. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
5377 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
5378 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
5379 root at that time.
5380
538160. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
5382 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
5383
538461. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
5385
538662. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
5387
538863. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
5389
539064. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
5391 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
5392 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
5393 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
5394 failures to open the logs.
5395
539665. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
5397 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
5398 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
5399 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
5400 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
5401 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
5402 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
5403
5404
5405Exim version 4.24
5406-----------------
5407
5408 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
5409 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
5410 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
5411 change 4.23/1.
5412
5413 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
5414 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
5415 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
5416
5417 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
5418 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
5419 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
5420
5421 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
5422 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
5423 causing some misleading effects.
5424
5425 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
5426 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
5427 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
5428
5429 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
5430 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
5431 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
5432 queue-runner function directly.
5433
5434
5435Exim version 4.23
5436-----------------
5437
5438 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
5439 HEADERS_CHARSET.
5440
5441 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
5442 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
5443 was always written to the default place.
5444
5445 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
5446 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
5447 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
5448
5449 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
5450
5451 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
5452
5453 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
5454 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
5455 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
5456
5457 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
5458 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
5459 must start.
5460
5461 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
5462 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
5463 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
5464
5465 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
5466 command line option is disabled.
5467
5468 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
5469 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
5470
5471 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
5472
5473 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
5474
5475 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
5476 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
5477
547810. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
5479
548011. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
5481 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
5482 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
5483 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
5484 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
5485 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
5486
548712. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
5488 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
5489 timeout.
5490
549113. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
5492 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
5493
549414. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
5495 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
5496
549715. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
5498 received was valid base64.
5499
550016. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
5501 name of the variable that was being set.
5502
550317. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
5504
550518. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
5506 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
5507 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
5508 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
5509 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
5510 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
5511
551219. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
5513
551420. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
5515 nor realm was specified.
5516
551721. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
5518 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
5519 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
5520 errors are given to SMTP connections.
5521
552222. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
5523 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
5524 failing to send a response to QUIT.
5525
552623. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
5527 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
5528 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
5529
553024. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
5531 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
5532 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
5533 some systems use these upper case variants.
5534
553525. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
5536 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
5537 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
5538 socket" when it tried to send the third.
5539
554026. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5541
554227. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5543 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5544
554528. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5546 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5547 expansion variable.
5548
554929. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5550
555130. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5552 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5553 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5554 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5555
555631. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5557 using it.
5558
555932. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5560 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5561 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5562
556333. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5564 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5565
556634. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5567 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5568 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5569 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5570
557135. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5572 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5573 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5574
557536. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5576
557737. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5578 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5579 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5580 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5581 aborted.
5582
558338. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5584 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5585 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5586
558739. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5588
558940. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5590 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5591
559241. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5593 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5594
559542. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5596 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5597 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5598 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5599 when emails are that large.
5600
5601
5602
5603Exim version 4.22
5604-----------------
5605
5606 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5607 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5608
5609 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5610 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5611 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5612
5613 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5614 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5615 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5616
5617 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5618 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5619 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5620 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5621 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5622
5623 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5624 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5625 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5626 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5627 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5628 ever.
5629
5630 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5631 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5632 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5633 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5634 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5635 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5636 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5637 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5638 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5639 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5640 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5641 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5642 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5643 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5644
5645 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5646 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5647 parameterised it.
5648
5649 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5650 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5651 error should be diagnosed.
5652
5653 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5654 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5655 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5656 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5657 appeared instead of "NULL".
5658
565910. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5660 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5661 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5662 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5663 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5664 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5665 proceeds).
5666
5667 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5668 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5669 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5670
5671
5672Exim version 4.21
5673-----------------
5674
5675 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5676 or receiver verification errors.
5677
5678 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5679 name.
5680
5681 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5682 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5683 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5684 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5685
5686 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5687 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5688 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5689 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5690 shouldn't happen again.
5691
5692 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5693 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5694 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5695
5696 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5697 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5698
5699 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5700
5701 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5702 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5703
5704 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5705 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5706 RFC.
5707
570810. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5709 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5710 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5711
571211. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5713 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5714 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5715 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5716
571712. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5718 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5719 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5720 to define what should happen).
5721
572213. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5723 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5724 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5725
572614. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5727
572815. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5729
573016. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5731 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5732
573317. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5734 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5735 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5736 structure in all cases.
5737
5738 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5739 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5740 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5741 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5742
574318. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5744 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5745 domain name.
5746
574719. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5748 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5749
575020. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5751 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5752
575321. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5754 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5755 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5756
575722. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5758 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5759 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5760
576123. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5762 the book and for uniformity.
5763
576424. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5765
576625. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5767 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5768 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5769 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5770 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5771 non-existent command as the problem.
5772
577326. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5774 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5775 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5776
577727. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5778
577928. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5780 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5781 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5782
578329. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5784 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5785 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5786 timestamps using strftime().
5787
578830. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5789 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5790
579132. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5792 transport-time rewrites.
5793
579433. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5795 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5796 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5797 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5798
579934. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5800 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5801
580235. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5803 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5804 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5805 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5806 comma and a space.
5807
580836. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5809 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5810 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5811 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5812 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5813 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5814 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5815
581637. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5817 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5818 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5819 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5820 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5821
582238. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5823 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5824 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5825 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5826 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5827 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5828 remaining text gets split now.
5829
583039. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5831 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5832 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5833 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5834
583540. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5836 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5837 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5838 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5839 $return_path.
5840
584141. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5842 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5843 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5844 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5845 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5846 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5847 passed through if needed.
5848
584942. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5850 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5851 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5852 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5853 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5854 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5855
585643. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5857 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5858 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5859 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5860 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5861
586244. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5863 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5864 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5865 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5866 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5867
586845. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5869 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5870 noticed.
5871
587246. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5873 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5874 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5875 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5876 mayhem of various kinds.
5877
587847. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5879 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5880 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5881 the right test for positive values.
5882
588348. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5884 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5885 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5886 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5887 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5888 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5889 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5890 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5891 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5892 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5893 envelope.
5894
589549. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5896 module.
5897
589850. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5899 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5900 forbidding it.
5901
590251. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5903 the existing equality matching.
5904
590552. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5906 dealing with inode numbers.
5907
590853. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5909 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5910 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5911
591254. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5913 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5914 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5915 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5916 local_scan().
5917
591855. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5919 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5920 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5921 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5922 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5923 relay addresses has also been removed.
5924
592556. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5926
592757. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5928 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5929 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5930
593158. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5932 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5933 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5934 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5935 processing applies to CR:
5936
5937 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5938 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5939
5940 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5941 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5942 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5943 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5944
594559. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5946 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5947 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5948
594960. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5950 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5951 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5952 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5953 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5954 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5955 arisen.
5956
595761. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5958 program routers.
5959
596062. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5961 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5962 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5963 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5964 adds:
5965
5966 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5967
5968 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5969
5970 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5971
597263. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5973 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5974 not considered personal.
5975
597664. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5977
597865. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5979
598066. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5981
598267. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5983 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5984 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5985 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5986 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5987 header lines, and spool format errors.
5988
598968. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5990 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5991 for more flexibility.
5992
599369. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5994 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5995 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5996
599770. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5998 Sabourenkov.
5999
600071. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
6001 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
6002 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
6003 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
6004 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
6005 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
6006 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
6007 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
6008 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
6009
601072. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
6011 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
6012 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
6013 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
6014 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
6015 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
6016 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
6017
601873. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
6019 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
6020 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
6021
602274. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
6023 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
6024 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
6025 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
6026 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
6027 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
6028 instead of killing the process with assert().
6029
603075. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
6031 than Unicode encoding.
6032
603376. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
6034 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
6035 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
6036 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
6037
603877. Added process_log_path.
6039
604078. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
6041 check_log_inodes was ignored.
6042
604379. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
6044 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
6045
604680. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
6047 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
6048 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
6049
605081. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
6051 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
6052 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
6053 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
6054 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
6055 were applied:
6056
6057 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
6058 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
6059 as invalid.
6060
606182. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
6062 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
6063 they will be used during message reception.
6064
6065
6066Exim version 4.20
6067-----------------
6068
6069The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
6070
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