DKIM: disallow default acceptance of sha1 for verify
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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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11JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
12 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
13 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
14
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15JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
16
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17JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
18 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
19 option.
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24
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25JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
26 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
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fc243e94 28JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
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29 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
30 its own TCP segment.
31
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32JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
33 each verb.
34
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35JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
36
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37JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
38
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39JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
40 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
41
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42JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
43 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
44 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
45 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
46 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
47 suitably configured).
48
c05bdbd6 49JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
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50 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
51
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52JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
53 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
54 crash could result.
55
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56JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
57 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
58
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59JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
60 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
61 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
62 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
63 to this system.
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65JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
66 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
67 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
68
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69JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
70 output.
71
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72JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
73 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
74
3c55eef2 75JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
00c0dd4e 76 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
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77 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
78 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
79 input).
80
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81HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
82 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
83 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
84 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
85 (It was "hdr.$pid".)
86
7d8d08c4 87HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
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88 shared (NFS) environment.
89
7d8d08c4 90HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
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91 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
92 affected.
93
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94JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
95 on some platforms for bit 31.
96
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97JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
98 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
99 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
100 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
101 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
102 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
103 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
104 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
105
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106JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
107
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108JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
109 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
110
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111JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
112 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
113 facility.
114
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115JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
116 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
117 documentation.
118
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119JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
120 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
121 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previoud the default was to
122 not do so.
123
59c0959a 124JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
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125 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
126 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
127
128JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
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129 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
130 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
131 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
132 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
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134JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
135 reject under TFO.
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efad2f41 137JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
4e48d56c 138 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
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139 be requested on all coneections.
140
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141JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
142 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
143
6ee11061 144PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
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146JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
147 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
148 one for these; the option was ignored.
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150JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
151 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
152 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
153 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
154
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155JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
156 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
157 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
158 standards.
159
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160JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
161 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
162 error ignored was made.
163
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164JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
165
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166JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
167 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
168 values, to catch one form of exploit.
169
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170JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
171 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
172 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
173
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174JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
175 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
176 causing a segfault.
177
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178JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
179 them in our smtp response.
180
9c6881f8 181JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
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182 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
183 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
184 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
185 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
186
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187JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
188 link count into consideration.
189
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190HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
191 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
192
193JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
194 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
195 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
196 surprise.
197
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198HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
199
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200JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
201
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202JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
203
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204JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
205 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
206 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
207 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
208
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213JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
214 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
215
216JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
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217 non-signal-safe functions being used.
218
219JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
220 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
221 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
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223JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
224 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
225 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
226
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227JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
228 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
229 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
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230 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
231 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
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232 messed with.
233
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234PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
235 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
236
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237JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
238 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
239 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
240 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
241 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
242 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
243 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
244
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245JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
246 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
247
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248JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
249 legitimate.
250
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251JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
252 Previously this would segfault.
253
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254JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
255 segfault.
256
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257JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
258 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
259 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
260 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
261 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
262 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
263
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264JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
265
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266JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
267 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
268 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
269 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
270
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271JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
272
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273JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
274 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
275 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
276 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
277
5054c4fd 278JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
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280JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
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282JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
283 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
284 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
285
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286JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
287 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
288 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
289
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290PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
291
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292JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
293 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
294 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
295 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
296
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297PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
298 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
299 promised '?' replacement.
300
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301PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
302
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303JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
304 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
305 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
306 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
307 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
308
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309JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
310 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
311 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
312
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313JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
314 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
315 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
316
7ea1237c 317JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
570cb1bd 318 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
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319 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
320
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321JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
322 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
323 hope that is portable enough.
324
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325JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
326 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
327 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
328 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
329
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330JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
331 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
332 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
333
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334JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
335 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
336 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
337 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
338
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339JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
340 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
341
75c121f0 342JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
059f2ace 343 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
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344 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
345 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
346
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347JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
348 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
349 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
350
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351JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
352 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
353 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
354 the previous G, M, k.
355
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356JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
357 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
358 it was unset.
359
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360JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
361 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
362 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
363 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
364
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365JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
366 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
367
de6f74f2 368JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
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369 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
370 off past the nul-terimation.
371
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372JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
373 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
374 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
375 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
376 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
377
aa6e77af 378JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
aaf3e414 379
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380JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
381 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
382 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
383 actually does fail.
384
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385AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
386 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
387
388JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
389 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
390 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
518b70e9 391
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392JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
393 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
394 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
395
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396JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
397 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
398
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c39c8870 403GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
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404 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
405 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
406 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
407 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
408 be defined in redis_servers.
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410GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
411 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
412
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413JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
414 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
415 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
416 extant use locations.
417
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418JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
419 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
420
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421JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
422 Previously only the last row was returned.
423
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424JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
425 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
426 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
427 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
428 input.
429
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430JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
431 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
432 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
433 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
434 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
435 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
436 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
437 Main pool for expansions.
438 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
439 active in the testsuite.
440 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
441
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442JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
443 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
444 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
445 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
446 round-robin DNS.
447
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448JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
449 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
450 failure response.
451
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452JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
453 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
454 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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456JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
457 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
458 ClamAV interface method is removed.
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460JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
461 rows affected is given instead).
462
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463JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
464 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
465
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466JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
467 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
468 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
469 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
470 for all multi-message initiating connections.
471
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472JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
473 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
474 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
475
f1fed05b
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476JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
477 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
478 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
479 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
480 separate.
481
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482JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
483 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
484 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
485 fake-reject.
486
cf3cd306
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487HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
488
744976d4
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489JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
490 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
491
aab9a843 492PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 493 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 494 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 495
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496JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
497 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
498 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
499 and send a quit.
500
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501JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
502 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
503
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504JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
505 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
506 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
507
c0635b6d
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508JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
509 for the build is renamed.
510
b808677c
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511JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
512 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
513 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
514
6678c382
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515JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
516 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
517 result replacing the original.
518
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519JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
520 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
521 and the resources needed to be freed.
522
15ae19f9
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523JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
524
e6532c4a
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525JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
526 was not propagated.
527
2556b3c6
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528JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
529 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
530 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
531 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
532
fc8cd529
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533JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
534 length value. Previously this would segfault.
535
71bb51e0
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536HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
537 newer versions of the scanner.
538
e04bfa34
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539JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
540 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
541 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
542 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
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543 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
544 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
545 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
e04bfa34 546
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547JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
548 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
549 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
550 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
551 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
552 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
553 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
554 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
555 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
556 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
557
c9cf9ac4
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558JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
559 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
560
b3b37076
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561JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
562
830832c9
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563HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
564 allows proper process termination in container environments.
565
f64e8b5f
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566JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
567 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
568
8f0776b5
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569JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
570 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
571 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
572
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573JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
574 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
575 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
5add7dc4 576 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
857eaf37 577
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578JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
579 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
580 would be spooled.
581
405074ad
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582PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
583 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
584
eb445b04
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585HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
586 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
587 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
588 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
589 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
ad93c40f 590
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591JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
592 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
593 lines.
594
a28050f8
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595JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
596 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
597
ddd16464
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598PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
599 suffix list.
600
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601JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
602 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
603 "bare" representation.
604
3203e7ba
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605JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
606 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
607 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
608 corrupted the output.
609
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613
614JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
615 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
616 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
617 pairs of long lines into single ones.
618
856d1e16
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619PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
620 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
621
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622JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
623 This permits better logging.
624
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625JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
626 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
627 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
628 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
629 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 630 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
875512a3 631
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632JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
633 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
634 "exiwhat" output.
635
98913c8e
BK
636PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
637 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
638 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
639
8d909960
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640JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
641 than 255 are no longer allowed.
642
7006ee24
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643JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
644 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
645 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
646 client, there is no benefit for these.
647 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
648 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
649 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
650 is used (3.2.4 +).
651
6e411084
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652PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
653 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
654
4c2471ca
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655JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
656 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
657 erroneously found still-pending ones.
658
4e910c01
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659JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
660 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
661
42055a33
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662JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
663 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
664 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
665 signature and again for transmission.
666
eeb35890
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667JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
668 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 669 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
eeb35890 670
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671JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
672 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
673 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
674 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
675 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
676 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
677 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
678
40525d07
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679JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
680 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
681 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 682 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
40525d07 683
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684PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
685 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
686 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
687 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
688 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
689 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
690 processing options.
691
a5ffa9b4
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692JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
693 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
694 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
695 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
696 connections.
925ac8e4 697
6600985a
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698PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
699 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
700 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
701 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
702 versions.
703
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704JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
705 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
706 inaccessible.
707
e69636bc
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708JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
709 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
710 banner-time rejection.
711
a843a57e
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712JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
713 callout/hold.
714
8e041ae0
PP
715PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
716 is the name of a transport.
833c70bc
PP
717 Fixes bug 2140.
718
35a04365
HSHR
719HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
720
4226691b
JH
721JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
722 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
723
d185889f
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724JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
725 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
726 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
727 during compilation.
728
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729JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
730 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
731 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 732 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 733
fae8970d
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734JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
735 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
736 initial verify call returned a defer.
737
ad1a76fe 738JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
14de8063
JH
739 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
740
ad1a76fe
JH
741JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
742 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
743
135e9496
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744JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
745 if present. Previously it was ignored.
746
f2ed27cf
JH
747JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
748 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
749
7eb0e5d2
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750JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
751 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
752 extensible.
753
4f9f4be4
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754PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
755 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
756
dc4de9cc
PP
757PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
758 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
759 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
760
ea18931d
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761JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
762 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
763 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
764 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
765
0768462d 766HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
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767 and confused the parent.
768
848214f7
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769JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
770 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
771
9e0ed81f
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772JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
773 for log purposes.
774
2540f2f8
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775JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
776 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
777 out-of-order delivery.
778
e5ab0ba9
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779JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
780 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
781 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
782 error for the HELO.
783
e99a3a6c
JH
784JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
785 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
786 desynchronisation.
787
18067c75
JH
788JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
789 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
790 one run was done. Bug 2189.
791
72934ba7
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792JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
793 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
794 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
795 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
796 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
797 message is still "Temporary local problem".
798
625667b6
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799JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
800 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
b488395f
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801 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
802
803HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
804 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
805 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
625667b6 806
d21bf202
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807JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
808 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
809 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
810 though a different problem.
811
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9427e879 816JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 817 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 818
7b283890
JH
819JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
820
4c57a40e
PP
821PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
822 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
823
5d036699
JH
824JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
825 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
826
f4630439
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827JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
828 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
829 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
830 before acknowledging the chunk.
831
f988ce57
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832PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
833 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
834 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
835
bd8fbe36
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836JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
837 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
838 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
839 should.
840
841JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
b895f4b2
JH
842 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
843 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
fd047340 844
bd8fbe36 845JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
902fbd69
JH
846 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
847
bd8fbe36
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848JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
849 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
850 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
851 body hash calculated value.
852
eea19017
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853JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
854 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
855 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
856
44e6651b
JH
857JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
858
859JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
860 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
861
862JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
863 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
864 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
865
866JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
867 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
868 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
869 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
870 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
871 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
872
873JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
874 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
875 past that check, despite the cost.
876
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877JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
878 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
879 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
880
f700ea4d
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881PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
882 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
883 TLS library to consume.
884
da88acae
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885PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
886
f6ef9370
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887PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
888
90341c71
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889JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
890 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
891 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
892 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
893 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
894 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
895 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
896
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897PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
898
899PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
900
901PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
902 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
903 should be warning-free.
904
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905JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
906
907HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
908 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
909
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910HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
911 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
912 general solution here.
913
7dc5f827
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914PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
915 already-broken messages in the queue.
916
4bb432cb
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917JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
918
3b1a84c8
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919JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
920
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925JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
926 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 927
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928JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
929 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
930 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
931
4b0fe319
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932JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
933 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
934 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
935 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
936 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
937 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
938 if one fails this test.
939 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
940 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
941
789f8a4f
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942JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
943 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
944
23bb6982 945JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 946 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 947
0bd1b1ed 948JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 949 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 950
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951JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
952 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
953
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954JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
955 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
956
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957JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
958
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959JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
960 certificate).
961
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962JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
963 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
964 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
965 connection after a verify cache hit.
966 Do not update it with the verify result either.
967
968JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
969 when routing results in more than one destination address.
970
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971JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
972 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
973 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
974 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
975 when the cutthrough connection is made).
976
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977JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
978 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
979
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980JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
981 Previously they were not counted.
982
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983JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
984 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
985 that needed the lookup.
986
4c04137d 987JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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988 distinguished as "(=".
989
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990JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
991 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
992
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993JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
994
995JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
996 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 997
4c04137d 998JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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999 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1000
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1001JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1002 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1003 compatible.
1004
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1005JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1006 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1007 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1008 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1009
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1010JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1011
f59aaaaa 1012JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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1013 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1014 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
d7bed771 1015
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1016JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1017 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1018 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1019 be lost.
1020
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1021JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1022 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1023 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1024 itself :(
1025
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1026JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1027 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1028 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1029
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1030JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1031 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1032 options.
1033
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1034JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1035
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1036PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1037 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1038
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1039PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1040 are not in the system include path.
1041
ad7fc6eb 1042JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 1043 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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1044 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1045 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 1046
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1047JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1048 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1049 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1050
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1051JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1052
8d73599f
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1053HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1054 an incoming connection.
1055
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1056HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1057 to rspamd.
1058
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1059HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1060 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 1061
87cb4a16 1062JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 1063 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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1065
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1069JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1070 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1071 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1072 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 1073
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1074TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1075 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1076
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1077TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1078 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1079 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1080 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1081 outgoing I= field.
1082
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1083JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1084 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1085 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1086 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1087 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1088 check on the next write.
1089
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1090HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1091 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1092 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1093 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1094 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1095
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1096JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1097 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1098
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1099JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1100 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1101 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1102
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1103JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1104 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1105 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1106 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1107
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1108HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1109 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1110
4c04137d 1111JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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1112 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1113
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1114JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1115 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1116 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1117 distinct.
1118
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1119JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1120
1121JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1122
ec0eb1a3
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1123JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1124
41e93589
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1125JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1126 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1127
98b98887 1128JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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1129 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1130
98b98887
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1131JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1132
858e91c2
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1133JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1134 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1135
1136JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1137
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1138JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1139 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1140
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1141JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1142
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1143JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1144 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 1145 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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1146 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1147 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1148 they will retry in-clear.
1149 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1150 at installation time.
1151
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1152HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1153 with the $config_file variable.
1154
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1155JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1156 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1157 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1158 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 1159 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
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1161GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1162 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1163 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1164 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1165 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1166
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1167JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1168
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1169JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1170 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1171 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1172 list order is no longer honoured.
1173
4c04137d 1174JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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1175 for DKIM processing.
1176
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1177JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1178 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
74f150bf 1179
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1180JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1181 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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1182 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1183 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 1184
8c5d388a
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1185JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1186 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1187
2d8d625b
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1188JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1189 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1190
0cbf2b82
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1191JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1192 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1193
f2f2c91b
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1194JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1195
ce325893
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1196JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1197 cached by the daemon.
1198
de78e2d5
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1199JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1200 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1201
379ba7d0
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1202JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1203 keys are given for lookup.
1204
f444c2c7
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1205JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1206 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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1207 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1208 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
f444c2c7 1209
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1210JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1211 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1212 server-side so match that on older versions.
1213
07c73177 1214JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 1215 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 1216 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 1217
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1218JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1219 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1220
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1221JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1222 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1223 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 1224 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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1225 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1226 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1227 initial truncated version.
1228
ab9152ff 1229JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 1230
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1231JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1232
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1233JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1234 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1235
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1236JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1237
bc3c7bb7 1238HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 1239
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1240JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1241 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1242 induced overflows.
1243
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1244JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1245 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1246 stage.
1247
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1248JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1249 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1250
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1251JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1252 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1253 former class.
1254
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1255JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1256 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1257 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1258
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1259JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1260 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1261 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1262 extraction. Accept either.
1263
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1268JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1269 expanded.
1270
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1271JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1272
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1273JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1274 it.
1275
01a4a5c5 1276JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 1277 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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1278 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1279 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1280
cb1d7830 1281JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
0e0f3f56 1282 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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1283 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1284
610ff438 1285JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
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1286 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1287 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1288 TLS connections
610ff438 1289
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1290JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1291 sites use this now.
1292
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1293JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1294 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1295 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1296 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1297 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1298
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1299JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1300 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 1301 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 1302
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1303JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1304
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1305JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1306 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1307
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1308JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1309 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1310
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1311JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1312 /defer_ok option.
1313
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1314JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1315 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1316
fd4d8871 1317JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 1318 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
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1319 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1320
1321JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
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1322 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1323 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 1324
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1325JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1326 timeout value per server.
1327
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1328JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1329 now have the list separator specified.
1330
8a512ed5 1331JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 1332 option values.
8a512ed5 1333
82c0c8ea 1334JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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1335 under OpenSSL.
1336
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1337JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1338
82c0c8ea
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1339JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1340 rather than the verbs used.
1341
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1342JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1343 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1344
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1345JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1346
cfab9d68 1347HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 1348 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 1349
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1350JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1351 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1352
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1353HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1354 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1355
4c04137d 1356JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 1357
d2a2c69b
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1358JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1359
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1360JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1361 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 1362 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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1363 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1364
1f12df4d
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1365JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1366
1f155f8e
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1367JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1368 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1369
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1370JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1371 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1372
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1373JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1374
474f71bf
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1375JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1376
7137ca4b
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1377JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1378
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1379JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1380 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1381
2f460950
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1382JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1383 added for tls authenticator.
1384
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1385HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1386
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1391TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1392 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1393 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1394 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1395 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1396 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1397 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1398
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1399TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1400 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1401 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1402 function when detected.
1403
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1404JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1405 cause callback expansion.
1406
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1407TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1408 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1409 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1410 instead of bool when processing it.
1411
0f06b4f2 1412JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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1413 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1414
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1415JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1416
ac4ef9bd
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1417JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1418
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1419TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1420
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1421TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1422 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 1423
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1424JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1425 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1426 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1427 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 1428 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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1429 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1430
8bc732e8
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1431JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1432 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1433 exceeded it.
1434
a7fec7a7
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1435JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1436 version 3.3.6 or later.
1437
4c04137d 1438JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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1439 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1440 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 1441 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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1442 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1443 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1444 option is defined.
774ef2d7 1445
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1446TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1447 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1448
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1449JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1450 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1451 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1452 matches.
1453
e9477a08
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1454JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1455 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1456 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1457
ad4c5ff9
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1458JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1459 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
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1460
1461JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1462 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1463 syntax errors.
1464
3394b36a 1465JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
8dea5edf
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1466
1467JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1468 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1469
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1470TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1471 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1472 tarball.
1473
ad4c5ff9
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1474JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1475
4c04137d 1476JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
ad4c5ff9
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1477 Bug 1561.
1478
1479JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1480 output list separator was used.
1481
8bc732e8 1482
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1483Exim version 4.84
1484-----------------
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1485TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1486 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1487 return.
1f0ebb98 1488
a612424f 1489JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1490 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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1491
1492JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1493
1494TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1495 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 1496
1f0ebb98 1497
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1498Exim version 4.83
1499-----------------
1500
1501TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1502
1503 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1504 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1505 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1506 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1507 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1508 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1509
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1510TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1511 utilities have not been installed.
1512
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1513JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1514 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1515
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1516TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1517 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1518
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1519TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1520 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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1521 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1522 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1523
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1524JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1525
5a1b8443
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1526TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1527 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1528
72c9e342
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1529PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1530 not dns_use_dnssec.
1531
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1532JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1533
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1534TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1535 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1536 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1537
8ddef691 1538TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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1539 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1540 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1541 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1542 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1543 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1544
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1545JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1546
e45a1c37
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1547JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1548 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1549
67d81c10
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1550JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1551 failed delivery.
1552
b1f8e4f8
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1553JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1554
511a6c14 1555JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
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1556
1557JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1558 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1559
51c7471d
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1560JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1561 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1562
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TL
1563TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1564
1e06383a
TL
1565JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1566
76146973
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1567JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1568 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1569
1570 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1571 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1572 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1573
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1574TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1575 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1576 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1577 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1578
35aba663
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1579JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1580
8c51eead 1581JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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1582 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1583 lookup).
8c51eead 1584
deae092e
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1585TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1586 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1587 Schlichting.
35aba663 1588
fd3b6a4a 1589JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1590 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1591
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1592TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1593 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1594
2b4a568d
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1595JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1596
d2af03f4
HS
1597TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1598 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1599 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1600
9d1c15ef
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1601JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1602 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1603
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1604JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1605 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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1606 hosts_request_ocsp.
1607
ed3bba5f 1608JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1609 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1610 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1611
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1612JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1613
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1614TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1615 Christian Aistleitner.
1616
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1617JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1618
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1619TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1620 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1621
00bff6f6
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1622JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1623 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1624
071c51f7
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1625JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1626 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1627
a6d4c44e
TF
1628TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1629 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1630
3ae173e7
ACK
1631TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1632 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1633
c13d09b8
TL
1634TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1635 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1636 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1637
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1638JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1639
66be95e0
PP
1640PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1641 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1642 Jasper Wallace.
1643
1bd0d12b
JH
1644JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1645
0de7239e
TL
1646TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1647 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1648 CVE-2014-2972
1649
fd3b6a4a 1650
2c422e6f 1651Exim version 4.82
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1653
1654PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1655
12f69989
PP
1656PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1657 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1658
54c90be1
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1659PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1660 by GnuTLS.
1661
1f4a55da
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1662PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1663 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1664 routines.
1665
13363eba 1666PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1667
66645890 1668PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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1669 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1670 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1671 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1672 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1673
a3fb9793 1674PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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PP
1675 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1676 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1677 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1678 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1679 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1680
d27f98fe 1681TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1682
6822b909
TL
1683TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1684
e7568d51
TL
1685TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1686 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1687
ae0e32ee 1688TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1689 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1690 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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1691
1692TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1693
e2658fff
TL
1694TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1695
83712b39
TL
1696TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1697 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1698
976b7e9f
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1699JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1700
be4a1376
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1701JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1702
ec4b68e5
PP
1703PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1704
d7148a07
NM
1705NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1706 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1707
585121e2 1708JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1709
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1710PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1711 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1712 function.
a5f239e4 1713
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1714PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1715 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1716
bef3ea7f
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1717JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1718 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1719 "acl = name arg..."
a5f239e4 1720
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1721JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1722
3a796370
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1723JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1724
ea722490 1725JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
8b260705
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1726 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1727
b1b05573
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1728JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1729 Bugzilla 884.
1730
362145b5
JH
1731JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1732 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1733
3c0a92dc
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1734JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1735 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1736
6d7c6175
PP
1737PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1738 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1739 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1740
6f123593
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1741JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1742 authenticators.
1743
c8e2fc1e
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1744JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1745 for control.
1746
005ac57f
PP
1747PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1748
3f1df0e3
PP
1749PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1750 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1751 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1752 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1753
67bd1ab3
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1754TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1755
1756 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1757 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1758 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1759 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1760 the retry rules.
1761
1762 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1763 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1764 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1765
1766 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1767 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1768 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1769 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1770
1ddeb334
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1771 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1772 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1773 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1774 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1775 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1776 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1777 delivery, as in LMTP.
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1778
1779 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1780 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1781
326cdc37
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1782TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1783
1784 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1785
1786 Resent-From: f
1787
1788 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1789 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1790 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1791 username as equal to the username.
1792
1793 This change corrects that bug.
1794
f62514b3
GF
1795GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1796 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1797 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1798
eb505532
TF
1799TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1800
14c7b357
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1801PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1802 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1803 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1804 NULL dereference and crash.
1805
94eaf700
PP
1806JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1807
6f5a440a
PP
1808PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1809 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1810 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1811
514ee161
SC
1812SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1813
fd98a5c6
JH
1814JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1815 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1816 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1817 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1818 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1819 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1820 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1821 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
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1822 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1823 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1824 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1825
035c7f1e
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1826PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1827 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1828
ff284120
PP
1829PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1830 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1831 Bugzilla 880.
1832
26e72755
PP
1833PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1834 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1835 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1836 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1837 an empty string is now equivalent.
1838
0fbd9bff
PP
1839PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1840 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1841 not performing validation itself.
1842
700d22f3
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1843PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1844 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1845
fcc8e047
JH
1846JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1847 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1848
4c04137d 1849TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1850
8c020188
PP
1851PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1852 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1853 other false fix of the same issue.
1854 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1855 Bugzilla 1363.
1856
d13cdd30
PP
1857PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1858 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1859
e2fbf4a2
PP
1860PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1861 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1862 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1863
f4c1088b
PP
1864PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1865 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1866 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1867
c5c2182f
PP
1868TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1869
73431ca9
JH
1870JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1871
2d07a215
TL
1872TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1873 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1874
a30a8861
TL
1875TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1876 Alexander Miroch.
1877
33382dd9
TL
1878TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1879 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1880 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1881 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1882 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1883
046172e6
TL
1884TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1885 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1886
581d7bee 1887TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1888 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1889 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1890
1891TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1892 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1893 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1894 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1895
237b2cf2
TL
1896TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1897
9fc5a352
TL
1898TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1899 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1900 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1901
b10e4ec2
TL
1902TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1903
e2cebd74
TL
1904TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1905 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1906 interaction.
1907
1908TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1909 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1910
2519e60d
TL
1911TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1912 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1913
e78e6ecf 1914
4263f395
PP
1915Exim version 4.80.1
1916-------------------
1917
1918PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1919 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1920 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1921
ea722490 1922
b1770b6e 1923Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1924-----------------
1925
1926PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1927 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1928 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1929
23c7e742
NM
1930NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1931
b322aac8
NM
1932NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1933 improved.
1934
4a891427
NM
1935NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1936
c1e794ba 1937PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1938
97753960
PP
1939PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1940
1941PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1942 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1943
df6303fa
PP
1944PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1945 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1946
7e6a8985
PP
1947PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1948 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1949
f1e05cc7 1950PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1951 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1952 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1953
4c287009
PP
1954PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1955
b98bb9ac
PP
1956PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1957 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1958
4a6a987a
PP
1959PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1960
c45dd180 1961PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1962
7db8d074
PP
1963PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1964 non-compliant senders.
1965 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1966
eae0036b 1967NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1968 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1969 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1970
dec5017e
PP
1971PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1972 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1973 in spool file corruption.
1974
c80c5570
PP
1975PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1976 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1977 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1978 "Got SSL error 2".
1979
076b11e2
PP
1980TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1981 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1982 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1983
5407bfff
JH
1984JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1985 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1986
9e45c72b
PP
1987JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1988
e74376d8
PP
1989PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1990 diagnostics.
1991 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1992
4c04137d 1993PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1994 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1995 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1996
7be682ca
PP
1997PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1998 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1999 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2000 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 2001
ef840681
PP
2002PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2003 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2004
5bfb4cdf
PP
2005PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2006 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2007 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2008 resolver implementation change.
2009
c6e95d22
PP
2010PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2011 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2012
9cbad13b
PP
2013PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2014
9ee44efb
PP
2015PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2016
6a6084f8
PP
2017PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2018 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2019
12dd53c7
PP
2020PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2021 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2022
9e45c72b 2023JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
2024 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2025
17c76198
PP
2026PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2027 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2028 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2029 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 2030 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 2031
53947857 2032PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 2033
eae0036b 2034PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
2035 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2036 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 2037
9e45c72b 2038JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 2039
7390e768
PP
2040PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2041 read-only, out of scope).
2042 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2043
08488c86
PP
2044PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2045 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2046 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2047 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2048
6475bd82
PP
2049PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2050
81f91683
PP
2051PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2052 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2053 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2054 real issues in debug logging.
2055
5779e6aa
PP
2056PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2057 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2058
3375e053
PP
2059PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2060 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2061 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2062
2063PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2064 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
2065 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2066 problems.
3375e053 2067
9d26b8c0
PP
2068PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2069 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2070
57eb9e91 2071PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
2072 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2073 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2074 needs to override this, it can.
2075
16880d1a
PP
2076PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2077 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2078 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2079
a799883d
PP
2080PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2081 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2082 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2083 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2084
3ecab157 2085PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 2086
0599f9cf 2087
867fcbf5
PP
2088Exim version 4.77
2089-----------------
2090
2091PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2092 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2093
f1a29782
TF
2094TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2095
ab42bd23
TK
2096TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2097 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 2098
0ca0cf52
TF
2099TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2100 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2101
921b12ca
TF
2102TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2103 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2104 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2105
2106 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2107 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2108 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2109 not safe for signals.
2110
2111 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2112 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2113 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2114 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2115 exiwhat.
2116
c99ce5c9
TF
2117TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2118
2119 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2120 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2121 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2122 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 2123 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
2124
2125 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2126 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2127 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2128 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2129 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2130 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2131
2132 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2133 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2134 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2135 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2136
2137 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2138 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2139 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2140 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2141
2142 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2143 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2144 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2145 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2146 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2147 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2148 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2149 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2150 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2151
2152 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2153 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2154 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2155 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2156
2157 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2158 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2159 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2160 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2161 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2162 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2163 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2164 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2165 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2166 details in the main documentation.
2167
3634fc25
TF
2168TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2169
792e8a19
TF
2170TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2171
5901f0ab
TF
2172TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2173 repository when doing development or release builds.
2174
7f2a2a43
PP
2175PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2176 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 2177
061b7ebd
PP
2178PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2179 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2180 Bugzilla 97.
2181
e12f8c32
PP
2182PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2183
9e949f00 2184PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
2185 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2186
2187PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2188 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 2189
555ae6af 2190PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
2191 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2192
2193PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2194 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 2195
6f7fe114
PP
2196PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2197 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2198
c566dd90
PP
2199PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2200 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
2201 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2202 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 2203
d6cc7c78 2204PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
2205 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2206 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2207
0d0e4455
PP
2208PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2209
3399bb60 2210PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
2211
2212PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2213 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2214
0ca0cf52 2215
10906672
PP
2216Exim version 4.76
2217-----------------
2218
2219PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2220
754a0503
PP
2221PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2222 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2223
c0c7b2da
PP
2224PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2225
e97d1f08
PP
2226PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2227
084c1d8c
PP
2228PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2229 Bugzilla 1098.
2230
4e7ee012
PP
2231PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2232 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 2233
c8d52a00
PP
2234TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2235 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2236
54e7ce4a
PP
2237PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2238 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2239
5ee6f336
PP
2240PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2241 Bugzilla 1104.
2242
c8d52a00 2243TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
2244 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2245
2246TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2247 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2248 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2249 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2250
2251PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2252 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 2253
10906672 2254
aa097c4c
NM
2255Exim version 4.75
2256-----------------
2257
4c04137d 2258NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
2259 Bugzilla 1073
2260
7f3d9eff
TF
2261TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2262 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2263 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2264
159f52d2
TF
2265TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2266 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2267
0cc9542a
PP
2268PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2269 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2270 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2271
f7274286
PP
2272PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2273 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2274
7b797365
PP
2275PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2276 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2277
caacae52
NM
2278NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2279 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2280
09dcaba9
NM
2281NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2282 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2283
bc19a55b
PP
2284PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2285 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 2286
bd4c9759
NM
2287NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2288 Fixes bug 943.
2289
b72aab72
PP
2290PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2291 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2292
2fe76745
PP
2293PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2294 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2295
76aa570c
PP
2296PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2297 SQL string expansion failure details.
2298 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2299
f1e5fef5
PP
2300PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2301 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2302
4d805ee9
PP
2303PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2304 extern declarations in function scope.
2305 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2306
cd59ab18
PP
2307PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2308 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2309 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2310 a kernel bug).
2311
332f5cf3
PP
2312PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2313 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2314
29cfeb94
PP
2315PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2316 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2317
660242ad
PP
2318PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2319 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2320
bc4bc4c5
PP
2321PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2322 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2323
2e64baa9
NM
2324NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2325 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2326 Dennis Davis.
2327
4c04137d 2328PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 2329
6bac1a9a
PP
2330PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2331
552193f0
NM
2332NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2333 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 2334
1b587e48
TF
2335TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2336 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2337
aa097c4c 2338
8c07b69f
TF
2339Exim version 4.74
2340-----------------
2341
2342TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2343 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2344
c0ea85ab
TF
2345TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2346 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2347
0761d44e
TF
2348TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2349
0a349494
PP
2350DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2351 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2352 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2353
2354PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2355 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2356 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2357
fea24b2e
PP
2358PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2359 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2360 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2361 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2362
6545de78
PP
2363PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2364 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2365 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2366 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2367
1670ef10
PP
2368PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2369 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2370 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2371 arbitrary files.
2372
c0886197
PP
2373PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2374 (Wolfgang Breyha)
2375
b7487bce
PP
2376PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2377 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2378 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2379 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2380 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2381
8c07b69f 2382
97fd1e48 2383Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 2384-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
2385
2386PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2387 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2388 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2389
6901c596
PP
2390PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2391 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2392
a8c8d6b5
JJ
2393JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2394
77bb000f
PP
2395PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2396
a29e5231
PP
2397PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2398
ec5a0394 2399PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 2400
55c75993
PP
2401PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2402
453a6645 2403PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
2404 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2405 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
2406 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2407
8544e77a
PP
2408PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2409 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2410 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
2411 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2412 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 2413
83e029d5
PP
2414PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2415
ed7f7860
PP
2416PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2417
7d9f747b
PP
2418PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2419
4b2241d2
PP
2420PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2421
10385c15
PP
2422PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2423
dbc4b90d
PP
2424PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2425
532be449
PP
2426PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2427
6a8de854 2428PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
2429 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2430 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 2431
5dc43717
JJ
2432JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2433
2434JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2435 "exim" to be used
55c75993 2436
3346ab01
PP
2437PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2438 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2439
491fab4c
PP
2440PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2441 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2442 Notification from John Horne.
2443
13eb9497
PP
2444PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2445 compatible.
2446
2447PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2448 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2449 it normally works.
2450
7f36d675
DW
2451DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2452 access.
2453
c1d94452
DW
2454DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2455 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2456 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2457
e2f5dc15
DW
2458DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2459 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2460 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2461 configuration file.
2462
cd25e41d
DW
2463DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2464 option (effectively making it always true).
2465
261dc43e
DW
2466DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2467 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2468
fa32850b
DW
2469DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2470 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2471
79d4bc3d
PP
2472PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2473 run-time user, instead of root.
2474
43236f35 2475PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2476 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2477
fb08281f
DW
2478DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2479 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2480 arguments.
3346ab01 2481
74935b98
DW
2482DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2483 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2484 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2485
90b6341f
DW
2486DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2487
57730b52
ML
2488NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2489
66581d1e 2490
465e92cf
JJ
2491Exim version 4.72
2492-----------------
2493
453a6645
PP
2494JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2495 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2496 typos
465e92cf 2497
453a6645
PP
2498JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2499 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2500 (Finput)
edae0343 2501
9bd3e22c
NM
2502NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2503 Patch from Alain Williams
2504
bb576ff7
NM
2505NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2506
5a1a5845
NM
2507NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2508 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2509
981a9fad
NM
2510NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2511 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2512
7fc497ee
NM
2513NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2514
1a41defa
JJ
2515JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2516
a466095c 2517NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2518 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2519
94a6bd0b
NM
2520TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2521
2522TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2523
2524MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2525 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2526 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2527
c1b141a8
NM
2528NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2529 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2530
b26eacf1 2531NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2532 Patch by Simon Arlott
2533
179c5980 2534PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2535 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2536
9bd3e22c 2537
7c6d71af
NM
2538Exim version 4.71
2539-----------------
2540
7d9f747b 2541TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2542
f013fb92
NM
2543NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2544
0eb8eedd
NM
2545NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2546
663ee6d9
NM
2547NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2548
177ebd9b
NM
2549NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2550
7c6d71af 2551
210f147e
NM
2552Exim version 4.70
2553-----------------
2554
cdd3bb85 2555TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2556 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2557
2558TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2559 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2560 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2561
2562TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2563 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2564 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2565
2566TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2567 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2568
210f147e
NM
2569NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2570 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2571 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2572 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2573
deafd5b3
NM
2574NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2575 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2576 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2577
089793a4
TF
2578TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2579
5f16ca82
TF
2580TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2581
dae9d94e 2582NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2583 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2584
7d9f747b 2585NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2586
06864c44
TF
2587TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2588 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2589 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2590 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2591
65a7d8c3 2592NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2593 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2594
23510047 2595TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2596
7d9f747b 2597NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2598
7d8eec3a 2599NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2600 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2601
89dec7b6
TF
2602TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2603 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2604
a99de90c
TF
2605TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2606 that they are available at delivery time.
2607
e2803e40
TF
2608TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2609
7199e1ee
TF
2610TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2611 incoming_port log selectors.
2612
e276e04b
TF
2613TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2614 setting expands to an empty string.
2615
ce552449 2616NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2617 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2618
e765a0f1 2619NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2620 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2621
4f054c63 2622NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2623 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2624
7d9f747b
PP
2625NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2626 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2627
7d9f747b
PP
2628NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2629 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2630
b52bc06e 2631NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2632 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2633
447de4b0
NM
2634NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2635
4c69d561 2636NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2637 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2638
d5c39246 2639NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2640 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2641
0b23848a
TK
2642TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2643
8f3414a1 2644NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2645 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2646
fb6f955d
NM
2647NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2648
2649NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2650
7d9f747b
PP
2651NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2652 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2653
7d9f747b
PP
2654NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2655 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2656
7d9f747b
PP
2657NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2658 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2659
7d9f747b
PP
2660NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2661 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2662
7d9f747b
PP
2663NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2664 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2665
7d9f747b
PP
2666NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2667 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2668
7d9f747b
PP
2669NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2670 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2671
7d9f747b 2672NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2673 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2674
7d9f747b 2675NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2676
7d9f747b
PP
2677NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2678 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2679
7d9f747b 2680NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2681
7d9f747b 2682NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2683
7d9f747b 2684NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2685
7d9f747b 2686NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2687
17792b53 2688NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2689 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2690
7d9f747b
PP
2691NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2692 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2693
91576cec 2694NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2695 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2696
7d9f747b
PP
2697NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2698 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2699
7d9f747b 2700NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2701
7d9f747b 2702NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2703
7d9f747b 2704NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2705
7d9f747b 2706NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2707
deafd5b3 2708
47db1125
NM
2709Exim version 4.69
2710-----------------
2711
4b3504d0
TK
2712TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2713 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2714 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2715
2716 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2717 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2718 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2719 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2720 build errors in sieve.c.
2721
81ea09ca
NM
2722NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2723 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2724 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2725
f13cddcb
SC
2726SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2727
7d9f747b 2728NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2729
7d9f747b 2730NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2731
7d9f747b 2732NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2733
2734
eb4c0de6
PH
2735Exim version 4.68
2736-----------------
2737
2738PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2739
6a3bceb1
PH
2740PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2741 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2742 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2743 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2744 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2745 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2746 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2747 for iplsearch lookups.
2748
2749 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2750 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2751 previously such lookups could never work.
2752
4c04137d 2753 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2754 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2755 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2756
2e30fa9d
TK
2757TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2758 version.
2759
0806a9c5
MH
2760MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2761 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2762 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2763 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2764 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2765 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2766
ae276964
TK
2767TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2768 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2769
0f2cbd1b
MH
2770MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2771 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2772 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2773 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2774 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2775 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2776
2b85bce7
PH
2777PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2778 local_scan API.
2779
93655c46
PH
2780PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2781
6c512171
PH
2782PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2783 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2784 encrypted.
2785
2786PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2787 by clients under certain conditions.
2788
aa6dc513
PH
2789PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2790 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2791
a96603a0
PH
2792PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2793
8f240103
PH
2794PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2795 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2796
2797PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2798
d677b2f2
PH
2799PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2800
d52120f2
PH
2801PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2802
64f2600a
PH
2803PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2804 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2805
8669f003
PH
2806PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2807
a4dc33a8
PH
2808PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2809 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2810
d6a60c0f
PH
2811PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2812
8f128379
PH
2813PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2814
8932dffe
PH
2815PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2816 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2817 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2818 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2819
ddea74fa 2820PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2821 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2822 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2823
ddea74fa 2824PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2825 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2826
ddea74fa
PH
2827PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2828
ce9f225c
PH
2829PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2830
19897d52
PH
2831PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2832
bc64a74d
PH
2833PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2834 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2835 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2836
eb4c0de6 2837
b4ed4da0
PH
2838Exim version 4.67
2839-----------------
2840
22ad45c9
MH
2841MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2842 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2843 Jan Srzednicki.
2844
b4ed4da0
PH
2845PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2846 issue a MAIL command.
2847
431b7361
PH
2848PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2849
2850 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2851
2852 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2853 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2854 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2855 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2856 item. This has been fixed.
2857
2858PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2859 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2860
83da1223
PH
2861PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2862 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2863
54fc8428
PH
2864PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2865 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2866 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2867
34c5e8dd
SC
2868SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2869
bbe15da8
PH
2870PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2871 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2872 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2873 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2874 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2875
0e8a9471
MH
2876MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2877 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2878 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2879
f0872424
PH
2880PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2881 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2882 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2883 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2884
b01dd148
PH
2885PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2886
6bf342e1
PH
2887PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2888
273f34d0
PH
2889PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2890 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2891 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2892 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2893 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2894
cf8b11a5
PH
2895PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2896
41c7c167
PH
2897PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2898 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2899 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2900 values).
2901
9c57cbc0
PH
2902PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2903
f3f065bb
PH
2904PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2905
047bdd8c
PH
2906PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2907
0ce9abe6
PH
2908PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2909
0e22dfd1
PH
2910PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2911
4c590bd1
PH
2912PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2913 no_callout_flush is set.
2914
09945f1e
PH
2915PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2916 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2917 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2918 fixed.
2919
c51b8e75
PH
2920PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2921
e28326d8 2922PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2923 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2924 other ACL rejections are.
2925
75b1493f
PH
2926PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2927 with slight modification.
2928
7c5214ec
PH
2929PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2930 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2931
4311097e
PH
2932PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2933 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2934 connection.
2935
29f89cad
PH
2936PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2937 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2938
5e687460
SC
2939SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2940
c3611384
PH
2941PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2942 expansion side effects.
2943
5a11a7b4
PH
2944PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2945 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2946 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2947 be the same.
2948
0e20aff9
MH
2949MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2950 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2951 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2952
ca86f471
PH
2953PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2954 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2955 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2956 were accidentally chopped off.
2957
a14e5636
PH
2958PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2959 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2960 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2961 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2962 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2963 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2964 pipelining has not been advertised.
2965
ec95d1a6
PH
2966PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2967
42855d71
PH
2968PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2969 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2970 This has been fixed.
2971
57c2c631
PH
2972PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2973 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2974 reported on Solaris.
2975
58c01c94
PH
2976PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2977 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2978 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2979 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2980 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2981 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2982 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2983
dee5a20a
PH
2984PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2985 cpus.
2986
d2ee6114
PH
2987PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2988
b2d5182b
PH
2989PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2990
79749a79
PH
2991PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2992 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2993 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2994 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2995 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2996 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2997
c456d9bb
PH
2998PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2999 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3000 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3001 host_all_ignored option.
3002
cd9868ec
PH
3003PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3004 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3005 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3006 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3007 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3008 is what is supposed to happen).
3009
ebeaf996
PH
3010PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3011 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3012 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3013 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3014 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3015 uses the Exim user.
3016
2679d413
PH
3017PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3018 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3019 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3020 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3021 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3022 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3023 users.
3024
84024b72
PH
3025PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3026
8005d38e
SC
3027SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3028 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3029 (Jez Hancock).
3030 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3031 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3032
3298c6c6
SC
3033SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3034
a43a27c5
PH
3035PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3036
58eb016e 3037PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
3038 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3039 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3040 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3041 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3042 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3043 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3044 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 3045 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
3046 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3047 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 3048
b43a74ea
PH
3049PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3050 advertised in response to EHLO.
3051
b4ed4da0 3052
5dd1517f
PH
3053Exim version 4.66
3054-----------------
3055
3056PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3057 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3058
3059 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3060 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3061
3062 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3063 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3064 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3065
3066 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3067 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3068 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3069 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3070 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3071
3072
93cfa765
TK
3073Exim version 4.65
3074-----------------
3075
3076TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3077 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3078 versions. (#438)
3079
d6066548
MH
3080MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3081 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3082 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3083
4362ff0d
PH
3084PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3085 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3086 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3087 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3088 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3089 rather than extend the field.
3090
93cfa765 3091
944e9e9c
TF
3092Exim version 4.64
3093-----------------
aa41d2de 3094
21d74bd9
TK
3095TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3096 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3097 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3098 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3099 these files.
3100
3101TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3102 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3103 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3104
3105TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3106 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3107 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
3108
3109TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3110 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3111 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3112 in the field name.
3113
2b1c6e3a
PH
3114PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3115 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3116 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3117 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3118 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3119 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3120 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3121 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3122 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3123 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3124 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3125
1f872c80
PH
3126PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3127 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
3128
3129PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3130 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3131 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3132 ignores EPIPE as well.
3133
d203e649
PH
3134PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3135 (quoted-printable decoding).
3136
cc2ed8f7 3137PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 3138 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 3139
ddfcd446
PH
3140PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3141
d45b1de8
PH
3142PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3143
3144PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3145
38a0a95f 3146PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 3147 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 3148
a2405d83
JJ
3149JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3150 in 4.64-PH/09.
3151
3152JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3153 miscellaneous code fixes
3154
6ea85e9a
PH
3155PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3156 rejections.
3157
26da7e20
PH
3158PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3159 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3160 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3161 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3162 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3163 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3164 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3165 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 3166
14aa5a05 3167PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 3168 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
3169 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3170 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3171 function.
3172 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3173 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3174 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3175 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3176 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3177 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3178 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3179 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3180 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3181
ff75a1f7
PH
3182PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3183 decoding.
3184
e6f6568e
PH
3185PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3186 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3187 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3188 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3189 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3190 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3191 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3192 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3193
d6f6e0dc
PH
3194PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3195 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3196 list.
3197
322050c2
PH
3198PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3199 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3200 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3201 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3202 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3203 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3204 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3205 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3206 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3207 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3208 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3209 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3210 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3211
08955dd3
PH
3212PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3213 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3214 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3215 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3216 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3217 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3218 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3219
1eccaa59
PH
3220PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3221 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3222 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3223 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3224 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3225 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3226 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3227 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3228 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3229 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3230
602e59e5
PH
3231PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3232 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3233 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3234 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3235 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3236
411ef850
PH
3237PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3238 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3239 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3240 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3241 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3242 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3243 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3244
7befa435
PH
3245PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3246 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3247 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3248 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3249 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3250 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3251 been verified.
3252
48da4259 3253PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
3254 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3255 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3256 and authorization.)
3257
48da4259
PH
3258PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3259 if any retry times were supplied.
3260
d1d5595c
PH
3261PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3262 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3263 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3264
0ef732d9
PH
3265PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3266
328895cc
PH
3267PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3268
fd700877
PH
3269PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3270 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3271 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3272 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
3273 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3274 before) are ignored.
fd700877 3275
8dce1a6f
PH
3276PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3277 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3278
17af4a17
PH
3279PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3280 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3281 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
3282
3283PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3284 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3285 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3286 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3287 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3288 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3289 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3290 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3291 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3292
3293 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3294 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3295 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3296 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3297 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3298 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3299 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3300 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3301 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3302
3303 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3304 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3305 hammering the server.
3306
c1114884
PH
3307PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3308 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3309
7a0743eb
PH
3310PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3311
0d85fa3f
PH
3312PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3313 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3314 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3315
1bf43b78
PH
3316PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3317 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3318 one case where this was not true.
3319
520de300
PH
3320PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3321 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3322 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3323 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3324 fails.
3325
48c7f9e2
PH
3326PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3327 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3328 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3329 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 3330 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
3331 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3332 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3333 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3334 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3335 smtp transport.
3336
99ea1c86
PH
3337PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3338 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3339 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3340 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3341
a2042e78
PH
3342PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3343 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3344
4fbcfc2e
PH
3345PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3346 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3347 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3348
aa41d2de
PH
3349PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3350
af561417
PH
3351PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3352
3cc66b45
PH
3353PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3354
194cc0e4
PH
3355PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3356 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3357 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3358 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3359
a401ddaa
PH
3360PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3361 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3362
4e88a19f
PH
3363PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3364 be meaningful with "accept".
3365
d7d7b289
SC
3366SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3367 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3368
3369SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3370 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3371 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3372
3373SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3374 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3375 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3376 there is data to show.
3377 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3378
3379SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3380 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3381 as well as the number of messages.
3382
3383SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3384 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3385 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3386
3387SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3388 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3389 have a flag are now skipped.
3390
3391SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3392 Added the -emptyok flag.
3393
3394SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3395 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3396
0ea2a468
JJ
3397JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3398 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 3399 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
3400
3401JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3402 match 4.64-PH/13
3403
3404JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3405 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3406
3407JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3408
3409JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3410 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3411
8a10f5a4
PH
3412PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3413
30e18802
PH
3414PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3415 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3416 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3417 contravention of the specifications.
3418
55728a4f
PH
3419PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3420 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3421 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 3422
d7837193
PH
3423PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3424 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3425 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3426
87054a31
PH
3427PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3428
ea2c01d2
MH
3429MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3430 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3431 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3432 some point in the past.
3433
e4fa6968
PH
3434PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3435 transport during callout processing was broken.
3436
56f5d9bd
PH
3437PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3438 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3439
922e1c28
PH
3440PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3441 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3442
21eb6e72
PH
3443PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3444 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3445
a0540757
PH
3446PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3447
944e9e9c 3448
478be7b0
SC
3449Exim version 4.63
3450-----------------
3451
3452SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3453 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3454
3455SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3456 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3457 there is data to show.
3458 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3459
3460SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3461 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3462
2b965a65
TF
3463TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3464 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3465
45b91596
PH
3466TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3467 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3468
c59f5781
TF
3469TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3470 submissions from trusted users.
3471
90fc3069
TF
3472TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3473 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3474
6083aca0
TF
3475TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3476 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3477 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3478 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3479 there is now a framework to start from.
3480
765b530f
PH
3481PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3482 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3483 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3484
4e167a8c
PH
3485PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3486
4608d683
PH
3487PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3488
b8dc3e4a
PH
3489PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3490
5418e93b
PH
3491PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3492 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3493 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3494
b4a9bda2
PH
3495PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3496 libradius.
3497
45b91596
PH
3498PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3499 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3500 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3501
5547e2c5
PH
3502PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3503 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3504 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3505 its arguments.
3506
dbcef0ea
PH
3507PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3508 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3509 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3510 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3511 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3512
25257489
PH
3513PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3514 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3515
c816d124
PH
3516PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3517
a9ccd69a
PH
3518PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3519 operations in malware.c.
3520
75fa1910
PH
3521PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3522 signatures.
3523
a7d7aa58
PH
3524PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3525 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3526 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3527 all.
3528
42119b09
PH
3529PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3530 statements to "add_header".
3531
41609df5
PH
3532PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3533 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3534
a5bd321b
PH
3535PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3536 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3537 latter.
3538
e85a7ad5 3539PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3540 so that it is now:
3541
e85a7ad5
PH
3542 ${if or { \
3543 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3544 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3545 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3546 }{no}{yes}}
3547
e85a7ad5
PH
3548 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3549 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3550
d8fe1c03
PH
3551PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3552 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3553
16282d2b
PH
3554PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3555 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3556 any possible encoding problems.
3557
35d40a98
PH
3558PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3559 but not after initializing Perl.
3560
034d99ab
PH
3561PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3562 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3563 apparently, which is not desirable.
3564
6ec97b1b
PH
3565PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3566 queries.
3567
e22ca4ac
JJ
3568JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3569 --not options
3570
3571JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3572
33d73e3b
PH
3573PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3574 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3575 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3576 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3577
9ecb03f3
PH
3578PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3579 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3580 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3581
084efe8d
PH
3582PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3583 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3584 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3585 0.12.
3586
366fc9f0
PH
3587PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3588 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3589 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3590 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3591 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3592
c59f5781 3593
c887c79e
TF
3594Exim version 4.62
3595-----------------
3596
3597TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3598 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3599
1cce3af8
PH
3600PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3601 patch).
3602
afb3eaaf
PH
3603PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3604 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3605 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3606 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3607 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3608 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3609 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3610 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3611 451 error is used.
3612
e173618b
PH
3613PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3614
dd16e114
PH
3615PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3616 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3617 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3618
f7fd3850
PH
3619PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3620 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3621 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3622 odd errors.
3623
d87df92c
PH
3624PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3625 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3626
7e9f683d
PH
3627PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3628 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3629 option (which defaults to 0600).
3630
bfad5236
PH
3631PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3632
01c490df
PH
3633PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3634 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3635 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3636 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3637 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3638 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3639 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3640
d6629cdc
PH
3641PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3642
1cce3af8 3643
214e2000
PH
3644Exim version 4.61
3645-----------------
3646
3647PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3648 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3649 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3650 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3651 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3652 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3653 addresses as local.
3654
f9daeae0
PH
3655PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3656 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3657
7e66e54d
PH
3658PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3659
c8ea1597
PH
3660PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3661 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3662 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3663 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3664 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3665 grumble.
3666
911f6fde
PH
3667PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3668 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3669
47ca6d6c
PH
3670PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3671 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3672 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3673 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3674 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3675
ed0e9820
PH
3676PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3677 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3678 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3679 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3680
eff37e47
PH
3681PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3682 be the same on different OS.
3683
1921d2ea
PH
3684PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3685 testing.
3686
b3f69ca8
JJ
3687JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3688 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3689
3690JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3691 in 4.61-PH/06
3692
424a1c63
PH
3693PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3694 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3695 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3696 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3697 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3698 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3699 bounce message.
3700
7a100415
PH
3701PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3702 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3703 when Exim was called.
3704
19b9dc85
PH
3705PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3706 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3707
309bd837
PH
3708PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3709 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3710 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3711 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3712
59e82a2a
PH
3713PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3714 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3715 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3716 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3717 changes:
3718
3719 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3720 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3721 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3722
3723 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3724 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3725 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3726
9edc04ce
PH
3727PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3728 feature).
3729
1349e1e5
PH
3730PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3731 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3732 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3733 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3734 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3735 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3736 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3737 values from the SRV records were lost.
3738
ea49d0e1
PH
3739PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3740 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3741 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3742
064a94c9
PH
3743PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3744 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3745 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3746
727071f8
PH
3747PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3748 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3749 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3750 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3751 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3752 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3753 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3754 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3755 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3756 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3757
f78eb7c6
PH
3758PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3759 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3760 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3761
21c28500
PH
3762PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3763 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3764
3765PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3766 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3767 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3768 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3769 is given.
3770
1688f43b
PH
3771PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3772 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3773 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3774
3775PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3776 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3777 PH/23 above applies.
3778
9675b384
PH
3779PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3780 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3781 (for which there is an explicit test).
3782
6a3f1455
PH
3783PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3784
dac79d3e
PH
3785PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3786 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3787 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3788 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3789 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3790
5977a0b3
PH
3791PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3792 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3793 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3794 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3795
c91535f3
PH
3796PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3797 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3798 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3799
0d46a8c8
PH
3800PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3801
278c6e6c
PH
3802PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3803
2cbb4081
PH
3804PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3805 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3806 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3807
3eef829e
PH
3808PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3809 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3810 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3811 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3812 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3813
1ab95fa6
PH
3814PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3815 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3816 the message gets confusing).
3817
230205fc
PH
3818PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3819 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3820 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3821 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3822
75e0e026
PH
3823PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3824 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3825 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3826 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3827 same order.
3828
3829PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3830 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3831 the different processes.
3832
145396a6
PH
3833PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3834
3cd34f13
PH
3835PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3836
11121d3d
JJ
3837JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3838 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3839
3840JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3841 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3842
3843JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3844 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3845 messages matching specified criteria.
3846
8def5aaf
PH
3847PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3848
929ba01c
PH
3849PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3850 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3851
2632889e
PH
3852PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3853 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3854 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3855 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3856 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3857 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3858 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3859 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3860 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3861 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3862
944a9c55
PH
3863PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3864 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3865 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3866
4a23603b
PH
3867PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3868
4730f942
PH
3869PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3870 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3871 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3872 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3873 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3874 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3875 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3876 the variable.
3877
30dba1e6
PH
3878PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3879 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3880
382afc6b
PH
3881PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3882
a86229cf
PH
3883PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3884
50c99ba6
PH
3885PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3886
d35e429d
PH
3887PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3888 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3889 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3890 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3891 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3892 size of the count of files.
3893
f90d018c
PH
3894PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3895
75def545
PH
3896PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3897 used in LMTP mode:
3898
3899 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3900 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3901 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3902 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3903
3904 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3905 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3906 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3907
3908PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3909 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3910 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3911 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3912 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3913
c46782ef
PH
3914PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3915 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3916
71fafd95
PH
3917PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3918 will now be deprecated.
3919
2c5db4fd
PH
3920PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3921
9cf6b11a
JJ
3922JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3923 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3924 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3925
3926JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3927 with very large, slow to parse queues
3928
3929JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3930
3931JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3932
898d150f
PH
3933PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3934 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3935 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3936 SMTP output lines.
3937
46218253
PH
3938PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3939 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3940 Sieve code now uses this.
3941
e97957bc
PH
3942PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3943 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3944
81e509d7
PH
3945PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3946 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3947
3d240ff7
PH
3948PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3949
b37c4101
PH
3950PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3951 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3952 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3953 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3954 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3955
79378e0f
PH
3956PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3957 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3958 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3959 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3960
e49c7bb4
PH
3961PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3962
d114ec46
PH
3963PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3964
f3d7df6c
PH
3965PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3966 is preferred over IPv4.
3967
715ab376
PH
3968PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3969 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3970 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3971 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3972 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3973 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3974 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3975
6b31b150
PH
3976PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3977 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3978 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3979
3980PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3981
d515a917
PH
3982PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3983 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3984 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3985 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3986 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3987 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3988 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3989 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3990 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3991 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3992 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3993
9b8fadde
PH
3994PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3995 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3996 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3997
214e2000 3998
5de37277
PH
3999Exim version 4.60
4000-----------------
4001
cc38ddbf
PH
4002PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4003
4004 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4005 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4006
4007 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4008 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4009 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 4010
72fdd6ae
PH
4011PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4012
4013 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4014 not a single digit.
4015
4016 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4017 string.
4018
4019 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4020 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4021 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4022 silly things.
4023
4024 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4025 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4026
4027 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4028 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 4029
cb741023
PH
4030PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4031 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4032 "/bin:/usr/bin".
4033
f174f16e
PH
4034PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4035 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 4036
c25242d7
PH
4037PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4038 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4039
4040 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4041
4042 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4043 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4044 this:
4045
4046 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4047
82c19f95
PH
4048PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4049 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4050 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4051 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4052 identical. For example:
4053
4054 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4055
4056 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4057 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4058 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4059
d7ffbc12
PH
4060PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4061 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4062 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4063 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4064
9f526266
PH
4065PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4066 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4067 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4068 message.
4069
87fcc8b9
PH
4070PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4071
4072 o fixes some comments
4073 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4074 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4075 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4076 and documents the missing references header update
4077
4078 and most important:
4079
4080 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 4081 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
4082 result)
4083
456682f5
PH
4084PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4085 Electronic Mail") by including:
4086
4087 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4088
4089 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 4090 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
4091 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4092 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4093 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4094
4095 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4096
4097 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4098
4099 The auto-replied keyword:
4100
4101 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4102 message by an automatic process,
4103
4104 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4105
4106 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4107 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4108
4109 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4110 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4111 other messages.
4112
3e46c1aa
PH
4113PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4114 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 4115
49826d12
PH
4116PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4117
eba0c039
PH
4118PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4119 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4120 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4121
a0d6ba8a
PH
4122PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4123 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4124 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4125
f0917727
PH
4126PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4127 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4128 and treats the condition as false.
4129
096fee00
PH
4130PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4131
024bd3c2
PH
4132PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4133 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4134 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4135 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4136 not changing the active code.
4137
4138 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4139 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4140
4141 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4142 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4143
df199fec
PH
4144PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4145 (Bugzilla #53).
4146
d27f1df3
PH
4147PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4148 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4149 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4150 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4151 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4152 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4153 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4154 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4155 the text comparison.
4156
96776534
PH
4157PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4158 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4159 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4160 The same fix has been applied.
4161
5de37277 4162
9a799bc0
PH
4163Exim version 4.54
4164-----------------
4165
4166PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4167 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4168 It now does.
4169
99a4b039
PH
4170PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4171 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4172
4173PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4174
4b233853
PH
4175PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4176 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4177 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4178 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4179 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4180
8857ccfd
PH
4181TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4182 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4183 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4184 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4185 or /domain=).
4186
433a2980
PH
4187PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4188 testing suite.
4189
3e46c1aa 4190
9a799bc0 4191
e3a311ba
TK
4192Exim version 4.53
4193-----------------
4194
4195TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4196 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4197
13b685f9
PH
4198PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4199
395ff96d
PH
4200PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4201
5b68f6e4
PH
4202PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4203 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4204 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4205
1ab52c69
PH
4206PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4207 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4208 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4209
b07e6aa3
PH
4210PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4211 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4212 operating systems.
4213
254e032f
PH
4214PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4215 ${stat: expansion item.
4216
3af76a81
PH
4217PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4218 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4219
2548ba04
PH
4220PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4221 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4222 file for comments.
4223
b6c6011d
PH
4224PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4225
cf39cf57
PH
4226PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4227 setting.
4228
f1513293
PH
4229PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4230 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4231
727549a4
PH
4232TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4233
af46795e
PH
4234PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4235 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4236 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4237 the end of the subprocess.
4238
d7b47fd0
PH
4239PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4240 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4241 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4242 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4243 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4244
ee744174
JJ
4245JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4246
b582ab87
PH
4247TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4248
41a13e0a
PH
4249PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4250 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4251
f625cc5a
PH
4252PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4253
4254PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4255
21f7af35
PH
4256PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4257 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4258 HP-UX compiler.
4259
31480e42
PH
4260PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4261
2d280592
PH
4262PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4263 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4264 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4265
7cd1141b
PH
4266PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4267 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4268
4269PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4270 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4271
750af86e
PH
4272PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4273 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4274
4275 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4276 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4277
4278 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4279 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4280 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4281 contributed by a Radius user.
4282
4283PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4284 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4285
4304270b
TK
4286TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4287 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4288
750af86e
PH
4289PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4290 available.
4291
64ffc24f
PH
4292PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4293 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4294 received.
4295
5dd9625b
PH
4296PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4297 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4298 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4299 header lines when this was not necessary.
4300
5591031b
PH
4301PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4302
ba18e66a
PH
4303PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4304 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4305 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4306 exists".
4307
9cec981f
PH
4308PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4309 -bV or -d is used.
4310
aa2b5c79
PH
4311PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4312 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
4313 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4314 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 4315
48a53b7f
PH
4316PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4317
1c59d63b
PH
4318PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4319
671012da
TK
4320TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4321
1509d3a8
PH
4322PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4323
4324PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4325 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4326 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4327 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4328 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4329 settings.
4330
4331PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4332
2fe1a124
PH
4333PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4334 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4335 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4336 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4337 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4338 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4339 which is clearly wrong.
4340
8800895a
PH
4341PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4342
ccfdb010
PH
4343PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4344 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4345 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4346 subsequently added.
4347
1130bfb0
PH
4348PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4349 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4350
ebcb507f
PH
4351PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4352
c35e155c
PH
4353PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4354 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4355
95d1f782
PH
4356PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4357 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4358
fd6de02e
PH
4359PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4360 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4361
58de37c5
PH
4362PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4363 recipients, not senders.
4364
261cf466
TF
4365TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4366 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4367
3ee512ff
PH
4368PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4369
e08c430f
PH
4370PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4371
bef5a11f
PH
4372PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4373 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4374 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4375 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4376
7546de58
TF
4377TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4378
e5d5a95f
TF
4379TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4380 clock is set back in time.
4381
2e88a017
TF
4382TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4383 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4384
a5f65aa4
TF
4385TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4386 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4387
e7726cbf
PH
4388PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4389 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4390 (see PH/47 above).
4391
a7fdad5b
TF
4392TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4393 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4394 header rewrites.
4395
6af56900
PH
4396PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4397 type ("H").
4398
0925ede6
PH
4399PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4400
66afa403
TF
4401TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4402 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4403 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4404
0154e85a
TF
4405TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4406 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4407 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4408 helo verification defer as a failure.
4409
16f12c76
PH
4410PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4411 actual error message.
4412
bbe902f0 4413
e5a9dba6
PH
4414Exim version 4.52
4415-----------------
4416
4417TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4418
22c3b60b
PH
4419PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4420 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4421 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4422 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4423
06a9b4b5
PH
4424TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4425
c1ac6996
PH
4426PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4427 can still be requested.
4428
9c7a242c
PH
4429PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4430 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4431 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4432 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4433
87ba3f5f
PH
4434TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4435 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4436 circumstances, but probably never did.
4437
4438PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4439 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4440 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4441 in the header line.
4442
29aba418
TF
4443TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4444
fe0dab11
TF
4445TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4446 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4447
11d337a4
TK
4448TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4449
4450TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4451
415c8f3b
PH
4452PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4453 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4454 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4455 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4456 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4457 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4458
958541e9
PH
4459PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4460 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4461 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4462 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4463 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4464 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4465
c206415f
TK
4466TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4467 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4468
2a4be8f9
PH
4469PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4470 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4471
1cba11c5
SC
4472SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4473 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4474
4c04137d 4475SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4476
4477SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4478
4479SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4480
4481SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4482
4483SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4484
4485SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4486
1005d00e
TK
4487TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4488
4489TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4490 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4491 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4492
4493TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4494 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4495 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4496 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4497
9b4768fa
PH
4498PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4499 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4500 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4501
4502PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4503 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4504 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4505 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4506
0d7eb84a
PH
4507PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4508 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4509 to be made).
4510
4511PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4512 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4513 should work with maildirs and everything.
4514
40727bee
TK
4515TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4516 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4517
554d2369
TF
4518TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4519 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4520
1f922db1
PH
4521PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4522 function for BDB 4.3.
4523
ef213c3b
PH
4524PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4525
8ac170f3
PH
4526PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4527 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4528 involved.
4529
b1c749bb
PH
4530PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4531 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4532 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4533 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4534 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4535 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4536
4aac9b49
PH
4537PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4538 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4539 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4540 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4541 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4542 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4543 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4544 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4545
294520c8
TK
4546TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4547 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4548 details.
4549
5bd022fe
PH
4550PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4551 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4552
90e9ce59
PH
4553PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4554 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4555 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4556 test. It is now used for both.
4557
5ea81592
PH
4558PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4559 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4560 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4561 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4562 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4563 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4564
c6c2dc1d
PH
4565PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4566 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4567 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4568 string_vformat().
4569
fffffe4c
PH
4570PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4571 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4572 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4573
9a26b6b2
PH
4574PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4575 experimental DomainKeys support:
4576
4577 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4578 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4579 the control was given.
4580
4581 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4582
4aee0225
PH
4583PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4584
32d668a5
PH
4585PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4586
8187c3f3
PH
4587PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4588 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4589 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4590 db.h files).
4591
ff790e47 4592PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4593 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4594 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4595 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4596 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4597 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4598 course.
ff790e47 4599
5417f6d1
PH
4600PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4601 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4602 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4603 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4604 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4605 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4606
59cf8544
PH
4607PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4608 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4609 do -d+all out of habit.
4610
e7ad8a65
PH
4611PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4612 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4613 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4614
ade42478
PH
4615PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4616 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4617 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4618 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4619 record types that Exim uses.
4620
182ad5cf
PH
4621PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4622 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4623 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4624 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4625 non-existent file that was broken.
4626
b0d9fc80
TK
4627TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4628 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4629
4630TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4631 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4632 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4633
4634TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4635
47c7a64a
PH
4636PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4637 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4638 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4639 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4640 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4641 same time.
4642
a388bce4
SC
4643SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4644 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4645 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4646 at a slight CPU cost.
4647
4648SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4649 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4650
4651SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4652 by Marc Sherman.
4653
0793e4ed
SC
4654SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4655
c58b88df
PH
4656PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4657 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4658
e7ad8a65 4659
7982096b
PH
4660Exim version 4.51
4661-----------------
4662
1a46a8c5
PH
4663TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4664 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4665
2f079f46 4666TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4667
4668TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4669
4670PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4671 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4672
4673PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4674 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4675 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4676 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4677 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4678 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4679 file.
4680
4681PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4682 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4683 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4684 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4685 these two options.
4686
4687PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4688 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4689 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4690 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4691 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4692 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4693 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4694 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4695
4696PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4697 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4698
4699PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4700 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4701 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4702 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4703 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4704 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4705
4706PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4707 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4708 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4709 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4710
4711PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4712 Finch).
4713
4714PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4715 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4716
49c2d5ea
PH
4717PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4718 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4719 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4720 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4721 message.
49c2d5ea 4722
bf759a8b
PH
4723PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4724
83364d30
PH
4725PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4726 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4727
7999bbd7
PH
4728PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4729 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4730 to what was transported.)
4731
7dbf77c9
PH
4732TF/01 Added $received_time.
4733
74e0617f
PH
4734PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4735 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4736 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4737 spamd_address settings.
4738
2f079f46
PH
4739PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4740 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4741 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4742 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4743 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4744
8c841523
PH
4745PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4746
7766a4f0
PH
4747PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4748 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4749 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4750 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4751 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4752
8b417f2c
PH
4753PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4754 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4755
901f42cb
PH
4756PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4757 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4758 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4759 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4760 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4761 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4762 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4763 for failure.
4764
f9b9210e
PH
4765PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4766 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4767 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4768 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4769 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4770 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4771 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4772 "input=".
4773
54cdb463
PH
4774PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4775
cf00dad6
PH
4776PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4777 driver and ACL definitions.
4778
acb1b346
PH
4779PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4780 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4781
c5ddb310
PH
4782PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4783 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4784 understands it better than I do:
4785
4786 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4787 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4788
4789 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4790 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4791 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4792 => three warnings about OTP not working
4793 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4794
4795 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4796 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4797 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4798 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4799 for each call.)
4800 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4801 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4802
4803 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4804 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4805 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4806
31619da6
PH
4807PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4808 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4809 specified.
4810
bebaf0fc
PH
4811PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4812 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4813 "Linux".
4814
475fe28a
PH
4815PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4816 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4817 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4818
4819 warn !verify = sender
4820 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4821
4822 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4823 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4824
7e8bec7a
PH
4825PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4826
4827 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4828 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4829
4830 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4831 nomenclature these days.)
4832
e4a89c47
PH
4833PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4834 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4835
5ca2a9a1
PH
4836PH/30 In these circumstances:
4837 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4838 . First host does not offer TLS;
4839 . First host accepts first address;
4840 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4841 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4842 . Second host accepts second address.
4843 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4844 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4845 address.
7e8bec7a 4846
c688b954
PH
4847PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4848 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4849 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4850 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4851 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4852
fed77020
PH
4853PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4854 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4855
7fe1560f
PH
4856PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4857 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4858
ebb6e6d5
PH
4859PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4860 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4861 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4862
9c4e8f60
PH
4863PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4864 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4865 overlooked.
4866
4867PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4868
d7174846
PH
4869PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4870 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4871 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4872 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4873 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4874 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4875 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4876
4877 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4878 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4879 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4880 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4881 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4882
4883 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4884 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4885 routed further.
4886
cfe75fc3
PH
4887PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4888 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4889 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4890 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4891 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4892 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4893
be22d70e
PH
4894PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4895
0612b098
PH
4896PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4897 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4898 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4899 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4900 printable escape sequences.
4901
2e0c1448
PH
4902PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4903 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4904 body only.
4905
447d236c
PH
4906PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4907 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4908 are as follows:
4909
4910 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4911 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4912 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4913 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4914 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4915
4916 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4917 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4918 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4919
d20976dc
PH
4920PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4921
f656d135
PH
4922PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4923 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4924 play with."
4925
2e2a30b4
PH
4926PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4927 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4928 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4929 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4930 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4931 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4932 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4933 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4934 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4935 the log output.
4936
9176e9f0
PH
4937PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4938 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4939 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4940 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4941 "make".
4942
7982096b 4943
bbe902f0
PH
4944A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4945----------------------------------------
4946
4947Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4948changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4949needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4950in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4951that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4952release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4953from 4.43.
4954
4955I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
49564.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4957those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4958historical information.
4959
4960
f7b63901 4961Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4962-----------------
4963
5fe762f6
PH
4964 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4965
139059f6 4966 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4967 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4968
7086e875
PH
4969 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4970 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4971 place.
4972
35af9f61
PH
4973 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4974 filter fails to execute.
4975
b668c215
PH
4976 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4977 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4978 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4979 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4980 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4981
a494b1e1
PH
4982 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4983
4984 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4985 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4986 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4987 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4988
c5fcb476
PH
4989 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4990 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4991 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4992 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4993 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4994
69358f02
PH
4995 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4996
5be20824
PH
499710. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4998
eb2c0248
PH
499911. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5000 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5001 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5002 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5003
2a3eea10
PH
500412. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5005 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5006 sender verification.
5007
500813. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5009 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5010
23c7ff99
PH
501114. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5012
4deaf07d
PH
501315. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5014 connection timeout.
5015
926e1192
PH
501616. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5017 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5018
650edc6f
PH
501917. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5020 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5021
2c7db3f5
PH
502218. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5023 information about exactly what failed.
5024
3d235903
PH
502519. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5026
7c7ad977
PH
502720. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5028 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5029 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5030
981756db
PH
503121. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5032 It is now set to "smtps".
5033
d4eb88df
PH
503422. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5035 ignore_target_hosts.
5036
503723. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5038 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5039 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5040 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5041 "[x.x.x.x]".
5042
7d468ab8
PH
504324. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5044 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5045 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5046
504725. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5048 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5049 wake it up if nothing else does.
5050
62c0818f
PH
505126. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5052 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5053 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5054 end up negative.
5055
26034054
PH
505627. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5057 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5058
af66f652
PH
505928. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5060
90af77f4
PH
506129. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5062 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5063 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5064 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5065 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5066 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5067 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5068 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5069
d8ef3577
PH
507030. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5071 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5072 than one IP address.
5073
5cb8cbc6
PH
507431. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5075 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5076 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5077 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5078
14702f5b
PH
507932. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5080 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5081 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5082 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5083 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5084 1024 to 2048 bytes.
5085
063b1e99
PH
508633. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5087 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5088 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5089 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5090
652e1b65
PH
509134. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5092 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5093 respected.
5094
6f0c9a4f
PH
509535. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5096 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5097 $sender_host_address.
5098
33397d19
PH
509936. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5100 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5101 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5102 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5103 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5104 very small.
5105
7bb56e1f
PH
510637. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5107
5108 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5109 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5110
ea3bc19b
PH
5111 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5112 just the host names, not the priorities.
5113
5114 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
5115 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5116 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 5117
ea3bc19b 5118 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 5119 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 5120
0bcb2a0e
PH
512138. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5122 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5123 domain.
5124
2ac0e484
PH
512539. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5126
4e1fde53
PH
512740. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5128 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5129
de365ded
PH
513041. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5131 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5132 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5133
f05da2e8
PH
513442. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5135
d6453af2
PH
513643. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5137
f7b63901
PH
513844. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5139
514045. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5141 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5142 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5143 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5144 because the tests only now provoked it.
5145
a444213a
PH
514646. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5147 (this can affect the format of dates).
5148
0ec020ea
PH
514947. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5150 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5151 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5152 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5153
b1206957
PH
515448. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5155
515649. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5157 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5158 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5159 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5160
26dd5a95
PH
516150. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5162 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5163 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5164
343b2385
PH
516551. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5166 autoreply.
5167
1c5466b9
PH
516852. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5169 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5170 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5171 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5172 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5173 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5174 is going on).
5175
55ee9ee3
PH
517653. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5177 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5178 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5179 the line.
5180
d38f8232
PH
518154. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5182 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5183 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5184
5185 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5186 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5187 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5188 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5189 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5190 so I produce this patch..."
5191
3295e65b
PH
5192 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5193 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5194 is not defined.
5195
7102e136
PH
519655. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5197 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
5198 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5199 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 5200 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 5201
3ca0ba97
PH
520256. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5203
c2bcbe20
PH
520457. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5205 long debug lines gets shown.
5206
18ce445d
PH
520758. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5208 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5209
1f5b4c3d
PH
521059. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5211
5212 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5213 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5214 of $primary_hostname.
5215
b975ba52
PH
521660. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5217 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5218 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5219 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
5220 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5221 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5222 by change 4.50/55 above.
5223
5224 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5225 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5226 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5227 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5228 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5229 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 5230 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
5231
523261. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5233 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5234 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 5235 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 5236
17ffcae7
PH
523762. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5238 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5239
d95f9fdb
PH
524063. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5241 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5242 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5243 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5244 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5245
86b8287f
PH
524664. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5247 This has been fixed.
5248
60dc5e56
PH
524965. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5250 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5251 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5252 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5253 the caching.)
5254
533244af
PH
525566. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5256
a5a28604
PH
525767. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5258 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5259 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5260 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5261
7e634d24
PH
526268. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5263 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5264
3e11c26b
PH
526569. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5266 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5267 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5268
6729cf78
PH
526970. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5270 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5271 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5272 message there.
5273
00f00ca5
PH
527471. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5275 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5276 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5277
c9bdd01c
PH
527872. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5279 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5280 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5281 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5282
d43194df
PH
528373. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5284 during host lookups.
5285
fe5b5d0b
PH
528674. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5287 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5288
5289 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5290
76a2d7ba
PH
529175. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5292 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5293 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5294 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5295 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5296 background.
5297
529876. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5299 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5300
04f7d5b9
PH
530177. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5302 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5303 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5304
bc60667e
PH
530578. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5306
bb6e88ff
PH
530779. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5308 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5309 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5310 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5311 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5312 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5313 process earlier.
5314
1e70f85b
PH
531580. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5316 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5317 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5318 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5319 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5320
532181. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5322 tables).
5323
4e01f9d6
PH
532482. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5325
1ee1cef2
PH
532683. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5327 "vacation" handling.
5328
6e2b4ccc
PH
532984. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5330 OS variants using glibc.
5331
8e669ac1
PH
533285. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5333
495ae4b0 5334
bbe902f0
PH
5335----------------------------------------------------
5336See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5337----------------------------------------------------
5338
5339
5340Exim version 4.44
5341-----------------
5342
5343 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5344 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5345 transport
5346
5347 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5348 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5349 place.
5350
5351 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5352 filter fails to execute.
5353
5354 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5355 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5356 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5357 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5358 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5359
5360 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5361 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5362 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5363 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5364
5365 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5366 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5367 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5368 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5369 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5370
5371 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5372
5373 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5374 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5375 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5376 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5377
5378 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5379 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5380 sender verification.
5381
538210. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5383 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5384
538511. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5386 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5387
538812. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5389 ignore_target_hosts.
5390
539113. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5392 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5393 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5394 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5395 "[x.x.x.x]".
5396
539714. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5398 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5399 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5400
540115. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5402 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5403 wake it up if nothing else does.
5404
540516. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5406 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5407 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5408 end up negative.
5409
541017. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5411 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5412
ea3a6f44 541318. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
5414
541519. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5416 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5417 empty pattern.
5418
541920. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5420 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5421 one IP address.
5422
ea3a6f44
NM
542321. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5424 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5425 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5426 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5427 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5428 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 5429
ea3a6f44
NM
543022. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5431 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5432 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
5433
543423. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5435 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5436 $sender_host_address.
5437
543824. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5439
ea3a6f44
NM
544025. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5441 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5442 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5443
544426. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5445 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5446
ea3a6f44
NM
544727. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5448 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5449
ea3a6f44
NM
545028. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5451 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5452 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5453 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5454
545529. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5456 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5457 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5458
ea3a6f44
NM
545930. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5460 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5461 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5462 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5463
ea3a6f44
NM
546431. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5465 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5466 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5467
ea3a6f44
NM
546831. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5469 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5470
ea3a6f44
NM
547132. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5472 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5473 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5474 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5475 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5476 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5477 is going on).
bbe902f0 5478
ea3a6f44
NM
547933. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5480 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5481 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5482 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5483 CAN-2005-0021
5484
ea3a6f44
NM
548534. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5486 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5487 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5488 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5489 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5490 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5491 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5492
5493 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5494 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5495 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5496 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5497 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5498 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5499 CAN-2005-0021
5500
ea3a6f44
NM
550135. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5502 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5503 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5504 CAN-2005-0022
5505
ea3a6f44
NM
550636. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5507 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5508 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5509 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5510 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5511
ea3a6f44
NM
551237. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5513 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5514 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5515 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5516 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5517
ea3a6f44
NM
551838. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5519 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5520 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5521 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5522 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5523
5524
495ae4b0
PH
5525Exim version 4.43
5526-----------------
5527
5528 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5529 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5530 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5531 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5532 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5533 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5534 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5535
5536 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5537 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5538 the delivery.
5539
5540 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5541
5542 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5543
5544 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5545 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5546 to local_scan().
5547
5548 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5549 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5550 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5551 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5552 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5553
5554 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5555 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5556
5557 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5558
5559 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5560
556110. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5562 header_sender only.
5563
556411. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5565 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5566
556712. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5568 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5569 affecting debugging statements).
5570
557113. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5572
557314. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5574 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5575 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5576 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5577 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5578 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5579 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5580 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5581 after the received time, and all would be well.
5582
558315. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5584 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5585 condition in an expansion string.
5586
558716. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5588
558917. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5590 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5591 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5592 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5593 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5594 job under whatever limits there are.
5595
559618. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5597
559819. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5599 space).
5600
560120. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5602 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5603 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5604 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5605 return path is set.
5606
560721. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5608 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5609 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5610 binary data in such strings.
5611
561222. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5613
561423. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5615 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5616 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5617 failure, which is pointless.
5618
561924. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5620
562125. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5622
562326. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5624 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5625 Sender: header lines.
5626
562727. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5628 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5629 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5630
563128. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5632 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5633 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5634 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5635 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5636 happens.
5637
563829. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5639 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5640 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5641 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5642 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5643
564430. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5645 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5646 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5647 1024.
5648
564931. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5650 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5651
565232. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5653 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5654
565533. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5656
565732. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5658
565933. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5660
566134. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5662 syntax error.
5663
566435. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5665
566636. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5667
566837. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5669 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5670 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5671 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5672
567338. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5674 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5675
5676
5677Exim version 4.42
5678-----------------
5679
5680 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5681 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5682 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5683 it was not quoted.
5684 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5685 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5686 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5687 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5688 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5689 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5690
5691 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5692 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5693 verification failure".
5694
5695 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5696 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5697 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5698 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5699
5700 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5701 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5702 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5703 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5704 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5705 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5706 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5707 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5708 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5709 treated as a timeout.
5710
5711 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5712 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5713 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5714 not set for Exim filters).
5715
5716 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5717 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5718 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5719
5720 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5721
5722 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5723 try to make them clearer.
5724
5725 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5726 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5727
5728 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5729
5730 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5731
573210. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5733 only the Cygwin environment.
5734
573511. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5736 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5737 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5738 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5739 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5740
574112. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5742 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5743 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5744 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5745 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5746 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5747 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5748
574913. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5750 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5751
575214. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5753
5754 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5755 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5756 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5757
5758 To: susanne@some.where
5759
5760 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5761 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5762 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5763 of addresses in From: header lines).
5764
5765 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5766 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5767 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5768
5769 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5770 treated as non-personal.
5771
5772 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5773 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5774
577515. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5776
577716. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5778
577917. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5780 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5781 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5782
578318. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5784 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5785
578619. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5787 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5788 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5789 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5790 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5791 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5792
579320. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5794 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5795 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5796 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5797 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5798 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5799 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5800 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5801
5802 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5803
580421. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5805 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5806
580722. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5808 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5809 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5810
581123. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5812 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5813
581424. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5815 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5816 rather than long int.
5817
581825. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5819
582026. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5821
5822
5823Exim version 4.41
5824-----------------
5825
5826 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5827 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5828 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5829 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5830 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5831 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5832
5833
5834Exim version 4.40
5835-----------------
5836
5837 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5838 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5839
5840 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5841 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5842 socklen_t is defined.
5843
5844 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5845 always exist.
5846
5847 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5848 configured.
5849
5850 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5851 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5852 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5853 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5854 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5855
5856 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5857 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5858 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5859 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5860
5861 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5862 of flapping under certain conditions.
5863
5864 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5865 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5866 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5867
5868 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5869
587010. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5871
587211. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5873 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5874 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5875 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5876
587712. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5878 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5879 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5880 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5881 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5882 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5883 preserved with the message after it was received.
5884
588513. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5886 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5887 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5888 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5889 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5890 test suite worked just fine.
5891
589214. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5893 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5894 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5895
589615. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5897 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5898 string.
5899
590016. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5901 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5902 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5903 does not fully solve it.
5904
590517. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5906 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5907 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5908 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5909 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5910
591118. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5912 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5913 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5914
591519. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5916 string, for example:
5917
5918 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5919
5920 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5921 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5922 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5923 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5924 the routers could not see them.
5925
592620. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5927 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5928
592921. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5930 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5931 output).
5932
593322. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5934 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5935 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5936 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5937 that needed quoting.
5938
593923. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5940 was not being matched caselessly.
5941
594224. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5943 backslashes.
5944
594525. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5946 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5947 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5948 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5949 when use_sender is false.
5950
595126. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5952
595327. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5954
595528. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5956
595729. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5958 the configuration file.
5959
596030. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5961 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5962
596331. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5964
596532. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5966 bytes in the message body.
5967
596833. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5969 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5970 delivery.
5971
597234. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5973
597435. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5975
597636. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5977 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5978 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5979 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5980 another IP address.
5981
5982
5983Exim version 4.34
5984-----------------
5985
5986 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5987 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5988
5989 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5990 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5991 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5992 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5993 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5994
5995 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5996 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5997
5998 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5999 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6000 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6001
6002 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6003 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6004 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6005
6006 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6007 for routers.
6008
6009 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6010 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6011 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6012 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6013 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6014 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6015 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6016
6017
6018Exim version 4.33
6019-----------------
6020
6021 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6022 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6023 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6024 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6025 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6026 default (and expected) setting.
6027
6028 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6029 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6030 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6031 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6032
6033 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6034 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6035
6036 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6037 in domain lists.
6038
6039 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6040 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6041 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6042 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6043 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6044 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6045
6046 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6047 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6048 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6049
6050 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6051 part (NOT match_host).
6052
6053 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6054
6055 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6056 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6057 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6058 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6059 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6060 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6061 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6062 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6063 the same named file.
6064
606510. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6066 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6067 when Exim is built.
6068
606911. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6070 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6071 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6072 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6073 a host name.
6074
607512. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6076 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6077 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6078
607913. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6080
608114. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6082
608315. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6084
608516. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6086 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6087
608817. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6089 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6090 before starting the TLS session.
6091
609218. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6093
609419. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6095 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6096
609720. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6098 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6099 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6100 colon in the middle).
6101
6102
6103Exim version 4.32
6104-----------------
6105
6106 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6107 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6108 multiple configurations are in use.
6109
6110 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6111 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6112 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6113 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6114 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6115 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6116
6117 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6118 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6119
6120 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6121 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6122 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6123
6124 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6125 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6126 occurs.
6127
6128 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6129 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6130
6131 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6132
6133 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6134 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6135
6136 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6137
6138 -prval:sval
6139
6140 is equivalent to
6141
6142 -oMr rval -oMs sval
6143
6144 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6145 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6146 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6147 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6148 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6149
615010. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6151 Exim's behaviour:
6152
6153 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6154 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6155 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6156 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6157 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6158 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6159
6160 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6161 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6162 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6163 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6164 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6165 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6166 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6167 string.
6168
6169 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6170 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6171 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6172 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6173 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6174
617511. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6176
617712. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6178 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6179 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6180
618113. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6182
618314. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6184 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6185 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6186 information.
6187
618815. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6189 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6190
619116. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6192 Three changes have been made:
6193
6194 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6195 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6196 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6197 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6198 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6199
6200 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6201 been restored.
6202
6203 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6204 the modified behaviour.
6205
6206
6207Exim version 4.31
6208-----------------
6209
6210 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6211 Larry Rosenman.
6212
6213 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6214 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6215
6216 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6217 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6218 try to track down a specific problem.
6219
6220 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6221 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6222 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6223
6224 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6225 warning.
6226
6227 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6228 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6229 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6230 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6231 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6232 some earlier ones do not.
6233
6234 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6235
6236 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6237 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6238 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6239 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6240 address literals are enabled, of course).
6241
6242 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6243
624410. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6245 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6246 by a command such as
6247
6248 exim -f "" ...
6249
6250 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6251
625211. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6253
625412. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6255 remained set. It is now erased.
6256
625713. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6258 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6259
626014. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6261 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6262 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6263 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6264 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6265 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6266 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6267 appropriate error code.
6268
626915. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6270 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6271 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6272 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6273 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6274 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6275
627616. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6277 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6278 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6279
628017. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6281 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6282 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6283 terminate the header.
6284
628518. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6286 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6287 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6288
628919. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6290 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6291 (4.30/29). In particular:
6292
6293 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6294 imposed.
6295
6296 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6297 to write a maildirsize file.
6298
6299 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6300 the transport, the new value overrides.
6301
6302 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6303 count.
6304
630520. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6306 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6307 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6308 space or a tab.
6309
631021. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6311 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6312 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6313 the fallback hosts.
6314
631522. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6316 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6317 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6318
631923. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6320 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6321 using a union.
6322
632324. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6324 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6325 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6326
632725. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6328
632926. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6330
633127. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6332
633328. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6334 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6335 become corrupted.
6336
633729. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6338 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6339 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6340 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6341 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6342 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6343 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6344 too great.
6345
634630. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6347 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6348 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6349 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6350 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6351 incorrectly.
6352
635331. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6354 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6355 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6356 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6357 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6358 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6359 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6360 cached value only when the same options are set.
6361
636232. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6363
636433. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6365 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6366 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6367 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6368 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6369
637034: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6371 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6372 it is clearly obsolete.
6373
637435. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6375 transport.
6376
637736. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6378 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6379 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6380 times.
6381
638237. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6383 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6384 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6385 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6386 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6387
638838. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6389 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6390 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6391 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6392
639339. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6394
6395 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6396
6397 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6398 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6399 2^31.
6400
640140. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6402 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6403 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6404 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6405 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6406 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6407 $localpart_data.
6408
640941. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6410 with the -f command-line option.
6411
641242. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6413 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6414 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6415 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6416 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6417 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6418
641943. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6420 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6421 line.
6422
642344. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6424 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6425 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6426 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6427 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6428 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6429 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6430 buffer is too small.
6431
643245. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6433 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6434
643546. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6436 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6437 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6438 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6439 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6440 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6441 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6442 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6443 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6444
644547. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6446 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6447 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6448
644948. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6450 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6451 ACL").
6452
645349. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6454 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6455 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6456 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6457 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6458
645950. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6460 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6461 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6462 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6463 is set.
6464
646551. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6466
646752. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6468
646953. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6470 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6471
647254. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6473 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6474 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6475
647655. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6477 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6478 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6479 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6480 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6481
648256. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6483 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6484 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6485 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6486 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6487 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6488 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6489
649057. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6491 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6492 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6493 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6494 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6495 the test of how many are available.
6496
649758. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6498 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6499 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6500 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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6501 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6502 new message is started.
6503
650459. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6505 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6506
650760. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6508 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6509
651061. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6511 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6512 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6513 is no long logged.
6514
651562. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6516 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6517 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6518 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6519 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6520 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6521 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6522
652363. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6524 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6525 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6526 interpreted as octal.
6527
652864. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6529 setting.
6530
653165. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6532 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6533 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6534 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6535 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6536 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6537
653866. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6539 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6540 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6541 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6542
6543 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6544 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6545 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6546 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6547
6548 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6549 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6550 is a bug fix.
6551
6552 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6553 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6554
655567. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6556
655768. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6558 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6559 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6560 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6561
656269. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6563 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6564 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6565 supplied", which is not helpful.
6566
656770. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6568 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6569 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6570
657171. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6572 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6573 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6574 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6575 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6576 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6577 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6578 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6579
658072. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6581 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6582 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6583 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6584 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6585
658673. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6587 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6588 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6589 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6590 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6591 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6592
659374. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6594 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6595 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6596
659775. Added write_rejectlog option.
6598
659976. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6600 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6601 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6602 variables.
6603
660477. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6605
660678. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6607 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6608 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6609 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6610 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6611 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6612 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6613 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6614
661579. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6616 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6617 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6618 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6619 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6620
662180. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6622 Haardt.
6623
662481. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6625 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6626 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6627 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6628 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6629 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6630 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6631 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6632 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6633
6634
6635Exim version 4.30
6636-----------------
6637
6638 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6639 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6640 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6641
6642 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6643 fixed.
6644
6645 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6646 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6647 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6648
6649 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6650 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6651 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6652 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6653 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6654 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6656 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6657 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6658 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6659 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6660 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6661 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6662 the Exim test suite.
6663
6664 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6665 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6666 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6667 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6668
6669 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6670 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6671 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6672 specify it in this variable.
6673
6674 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6675 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6676 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6677 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6678
6679 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6680 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6681 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6682 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6683
6684 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6685 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6686 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6687 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6688 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6689
6690 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6691
669210. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6693 they are logged.
6694
669511. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6696 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6697 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6698 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6699 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6700
670112. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6702 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6703
670413. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6705 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6706 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6707 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6708 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6709
671014. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6711 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6712
671315. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6714 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6715 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6716
671716. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6718 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6719
672017. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6721 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6722
672318. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6724 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6725 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6726
672719. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6728 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6729
673020. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6731 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6732 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6733 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6734
673521. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6736
673722. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6738 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6739 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6740 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6741
674223. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6743
674424. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6745 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6746
674725. Added .include_if_exists.
6748
674926. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6750 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6751 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6752 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6753 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6754 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6755
675627. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6757
675828. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6759 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6760 this.
6761
676229. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6763
676430. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6765 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6766
6767 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6768 550 Sender verify failed
6769
6770 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6771 the final line of the response.
6772
677331. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6774 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6775 all other user lookups.
6776
677732. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6778 delivery time.
6779
678033. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6781 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6782 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6783 result into an int without checking.
6784
678534. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6786 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6787 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
495ae4b0
PH
6788
678935. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6790 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6791 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6792 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6793
679436. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6795 correctly.
6796
679737. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6798 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6799
680038. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6801 to the empty sender.
6802
680339. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6804 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6805 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6806 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6807 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6808 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6809 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6810 panic log.
6811
681240. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6813 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6814 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6815 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6816 used.
6817
681841. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6819 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6820
682142. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6822 timestamps.
6823
682443. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6825 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6826
682744. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6828
682945. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6830 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6831 logs.
6832
683346. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6834 as soon as it is encountered.
6835
683647. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6837
683848. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6839 rewritten to "<>".
6840
684149. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6842 recognizes a tab character.
6843
684450. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6845 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6846 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6847 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6848
684951. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6850
685152. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6852 crash.
6853
685453. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6855
685654. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6857
685855. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6859 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6860 2822.
6861
686256. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6863 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6864 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6865 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6866 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6867
686857. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6869 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6870
687158. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6872 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6873 list (.included file names were always shown).
6874
687559. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6876 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6877 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6878 root at that time.
6879
688060. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6881 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6882
688361. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6884
688562. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6886
688763. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6888
688964. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6890 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6891 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6892 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6893 failures to open the logs.
6894
689565. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6896 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6897 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6898 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6899 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6900 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6901 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6902
6903
6904Exim version 4.24
6905-----------------
6906
6907 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6908 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6909 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6910 change 4.23/1.
6911
6912 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6913 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6914 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6915
6916 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6917 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6918 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6919
6920 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6921 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6922 causing some misleading effects.
6923
6924 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6925 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6926 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6927
6928 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6929 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6930 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6931 queue-runner function directly.
6932
6933
6934Exim version 4.23
6935-----------------
6936
6937 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6938 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6939
6940 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6941 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6942 was always written to the default place.
6943
6944 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6945 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6946 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6947
6948 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6949
6950 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6951
6952 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6953 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6954 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6955
6956 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6957 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6958 must start.
6959
6960 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6961 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6962 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6963
6964 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6965 command line option is disabled.
6966
6967 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6968 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6969
6970 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6971
6972 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6973
6974 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6975 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6976
697710. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6978
697911. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6980 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6981 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6982 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6983 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6984 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6985
698612. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6987 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6988 timeout.
6989
699013. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6991 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6992
699314. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6994 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6995
699615. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6997 received was valid base64.
6998
699916. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7000 name of the variable that was being set.
7001
700217. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7003
700418. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7005 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7006 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7007 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7008 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7009 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7010
701119. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7012
701320. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7014 nor realm was specified.
7015
701621. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7017 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7018 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7019 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7020
702122. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7022 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7023 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7024
702523. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7026 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7027 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7028
702924. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7030 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7031 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7032 some systems use these upper case variants.
7033
703425. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7035 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7036 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7037 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7038
703926. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7040
704127. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7042 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7043
704428. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7045 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7046 expansion variable.
7047
704829. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7049
705030. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7051 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7052 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7053 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7054
705531. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7056 using it.
7057
705832. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7059 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7060 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7061
706233. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7063 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7064
706534. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7066 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7067 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7068 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7069
707035. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7071 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7072 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7073
707436. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7075
707637. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7077 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7078 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7079 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7080 aborted.
7081
708238. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7083 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7084 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7085
708639. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7087
708840. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7089 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7090
709141. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7092 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7093
709442. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7095 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7096 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7097 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7098 when emails are that large.
7099
7100
7101
7102Exim version 4.22
7103-----------------
7104
7105 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7106 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7107
7108 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7109 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7110 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7111
7112 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7113 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7114 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7115
7116 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7117 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7118 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7119 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7120 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7121
7122 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7123 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7124 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7125 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7126 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7127 ever.
7128
7129 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7130 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7131 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7132 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7133 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7134 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7135 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7136 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7137 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7138 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7139 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7140 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7141 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7142 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7143
7144 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7145 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7146 parameterised it.
7147
7148 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7149 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7150 error should be diagnosed.
7151
7152 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7153 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7154 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7155 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7156 appeared instead of "NULL".
7157
715810. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7159 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7160 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7161 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7162 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7163 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7164 proceeds).
7165
7166 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7167 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7168 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7169
7170
7171Exim version 4.21
7172-----------------
7173
7174 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7175 or receiver verification errors.
7176
7177 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7178 name.
7179
7180 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7181 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7182 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7183 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7184
7185 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7186 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7187 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7188 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7189 shouldn't happen again.
7190
7191 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7192 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7193 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7194
7195 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7196 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7197
7198 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7199
7200 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7201 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7202
7203 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7204 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7205 RFC.
7206
720710. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7208 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7209 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7210
721111. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7212 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7213 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7214 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7215
721612. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7217 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7218 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7219 to define what should happen).
7220
722113. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7222 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7223 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7224
722514. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7226
722715. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7228
722916. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7230 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7231
4c04137d 723217. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
495ae4b0
PH
7233 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7234 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7235 structure in all cases.
7236
7237 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7238 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7239 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7240 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7241
724218. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7243 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7244 domain name.
7245
724619. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7247 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7248
724920. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7250 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7251
725221. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7253 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7254 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7255
725622. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7257 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7258 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7259
726023. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7261 the book and for uniformity.
7262
726324. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7264
726525. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 7266 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
495ae4b0
PH
7267 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7268 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7269 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7270 non-existent command as the problem.
7271
727226. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7273 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7274 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7275
727627. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7277
727828. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7279 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7280 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7281
728229. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7283 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7284 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7285 timestamps using strftime().
7286
728730. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7288 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7289
729032. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7291 transport-time rewrites.
7292
729333. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7294 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7295 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7296 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7297
729834. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7299 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7300
730135. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7302 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7303 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7304 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7305 comma and a space.
7306
730736. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7308 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7309 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7310 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7311 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7312 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7313 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7314
731537. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7316 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7317 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7318 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7319 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7320
732138. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7322 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7323 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7324 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7325 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7326 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7327 remaining text gets split now.
7328
732939. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7330 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7331 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7332 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7333
733440. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7335 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7336 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7337 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7338 $return_path.
7339
734041. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7341 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7342 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7343 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7344 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7345 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7346 passed through if needed.
7347
734842. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7349 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7350 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7351 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7352 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7353 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7354
735543. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7356 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7357 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7358 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7359 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7360
736144. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7362 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7363 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7364 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7365 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7366
736745. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7368 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7369 noticed.
7370
737146. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7372 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7373 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7374 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7375 mayhem of various kinds.
7376
737747. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7378 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 7379 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
495ae4b0
PH
7380 the right test for positive values.
7381
738248. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7383 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7384 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7385 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7386 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7387 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7388 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7389 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7390 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7391 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7392 envelope.
7393
739449. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7395 module.
7396
739750. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7398 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7399 forbidding it.
7400
740151. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7402 the existing equality matching.
7403
740452. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7405 dealing with inode numbers.
7406
740753. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7408 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7409 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7410
741154. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7412 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7413 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7414 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7415 local_scan().
7416
741755. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7418 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7419 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7420 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7421 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7422 relay addresses has also been removed.
7423
742456. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7425
742657. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7427 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7428 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7429
743058. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7431 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7432 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7433 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7434 processing applies to CR:
7435
7436 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7437 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7438
7439 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7440 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7441 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7442 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7443
744459. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7445 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7446 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7447
744860. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7449 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7450 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7451 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7452 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7453 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7454 arisen.
7455
745661. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7457 program routers.
7458
745962. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7460 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7461 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7462 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7463 adds:
7464
7465 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7466
7467 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7468
7469 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7470
747163. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7472 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7473 not considered personal.
7474
747564. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7476
747765. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7478
747966. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7480
748167. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7482 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7483 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7484 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7485 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7486 header lines, and spool format errors.
7487
748868. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7489 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7490 for more flexibility.
7491
749269. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7493 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7494 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7495
749670. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7497 Sabourenkov.
7498
749971. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7500 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7501 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7502 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7503 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7504 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7505 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7506 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7507 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7508
750972. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7510 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7511 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7512 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7513 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7514 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7515 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7516
751773. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7518 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7519 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7520
752174. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7522 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7523 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7524 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7525 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7526 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7527 instead of killing the process with assert().
7528
752975. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7530 than Unicode encoding.
7531
753276. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7533 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7534 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7535 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7536
753777. Added process_log_path.
7538
753978. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7540 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7541
754279. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7543 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7544
754580. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7546 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7547 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7548
754981. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7550 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7551 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7552 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7553 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7554 were applied:
7555
7556 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7557 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7558 as invalid.
7559
756082. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7561 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7562 they will be used during message reception.
7563
7564
7565Exim version 4.20
7566-----------------
7567
7568The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7569
7570****