Harmonised TLS library version reporting.
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3Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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6Exim version 4.76
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9PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
10
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11PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
12 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
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15Exim version 4.75
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17
4c9ef03a 18NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
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19 Bugzilla 1073
20
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21TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
22 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
23 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
24
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25TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
26 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
27
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28PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
29 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
30 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
31
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32PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
33 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
34
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35PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
36 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
37
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38NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
39 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
40
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41NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
42 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
43
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44PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
45 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 46
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47NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
48 Fixes bug 943.
49
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50PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
51 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
52
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53PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
54 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
55
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56PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
57 SQL string expansion failure details.
58 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
59
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60PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
61 Patch from Simon Arlott.
62
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63PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
64 extern declarations in function scope.
65 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
66
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67PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
68 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
69 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
70 a kernel bug).
71
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72PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
73 Patch from Mark Zealey.
74
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75PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
76 Patch from Mark Zealey.
77
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78PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
79 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
80
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81PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
82 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
83
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84NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
85 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
86 Dennis Davis.
87
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88PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
89
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90PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
91
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92NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
93 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 94
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95TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
96 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
97
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99Exim version 4.74
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101
102TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
103 consequences so log it to the panic log.
104
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105TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
106 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
107
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108TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
109
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110DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
111 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
112 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
113
114PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
115 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
116 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
117
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118PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
119 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
120 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
121 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
122
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123PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
124 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
125 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
126 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
127
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128PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
129 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
130 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
131 arbitrary files.
132
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133PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
134 (Wolfgang Breyha)
135
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136PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
137 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
138 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
139 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
140 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
141
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146PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
147 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
148 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
149
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150PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
151 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
152
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153JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
154
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155PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
156
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157PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
158
ec5a0394 159PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 160
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161PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
162
453a6645 163PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
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164 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
165 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
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166 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
167
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168PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
169 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
170 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
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171 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
172 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 173
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174PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
175
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176PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
177
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178PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
179
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180PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
181
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182PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
183
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184PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
185
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186PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
187
6a8de854 188PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
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189 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
190 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 191
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192JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
193
194JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
195 "exim" to be used
55c75993 196
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197PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
198 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
199
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200PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
201 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
202 Notification from John Horne.
203
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204PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
205 compatible.
206
207PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
208 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
209 it normally works.
210
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211DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
212 access.
213
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214DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
215 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
216 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
217
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218DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
219 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
220 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
221 configuration file.
222
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223DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
224 option (effectively making it always true).
225
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226DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
227 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
228
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229DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
230 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
231
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232PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
233 run-time user, instead of root.
234
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235PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overriden by the
236 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
237
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238DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
239 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
240 arguments.
3346ab01 241
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242DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
243 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
244 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
245
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246DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
247
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248NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
249
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251Exim version 4.72
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253
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254JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
255 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
256 typos
465e92cf 257
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258JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
259 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
260 (Finput)
edae0343 261
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262NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
263 Patch from Alain Williams
264
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265NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
266
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267NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
268 Patch from Andreas Metzler
269
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270NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
271 Patch from Kirill Miazine
272
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273NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
274
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275JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
276
a466095c 277NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 278 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 279
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280TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
281
282TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
283
284MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
285 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
286 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
287
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288NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
289 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 290
b26eacf1 291NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
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292 Patch by Simon Arlott
293
179c5980 294PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 295 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 296
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298Exim version 4.71
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7d9f747b 301TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 302
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303NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
304
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305NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
306
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307NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
308
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309NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
310
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312Exim version 4.70
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314
cdd3bb85 315TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 316 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
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318TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
319 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 320 Hirsch).
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321
322TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
323 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 324 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
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325
326TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
327 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
328
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329NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
330 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
331 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
332 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
333
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334NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
335 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 336 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 337
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338TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
339
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340TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
341
dae9d94e 342NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 343 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 344
7d9f747b 345NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 346
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347TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
348 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
349 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
350 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
351
65a7d8c3 352NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 353 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 354
23510047 355TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 356
7d9f747b 357NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 358
7d8eec3a 359NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 360 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 361
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362TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
363 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 364
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365TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
366 that they are available at delivery time.
367
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368TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
369
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370TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
371 incoming_port log selectors.
372
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373TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
374 setting expands to an empty string.
375
ce552449 376NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 377 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 378
e765a0f1 379NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 380 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 381
4f054c63 382NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 383 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 384
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385NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
386 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 387
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388NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
389 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 390
b52bc06e 391NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 392 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 393
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394NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
395
4c69d561 396NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 397 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 398
d5c39246 399NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 400 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 401
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402TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
403
8f3414a1 404NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 405 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 406
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407NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
408
409NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 410
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411NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
412 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 413
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414NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
415 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 416
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417NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
418 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 419
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420NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
421 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 422
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423NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
424 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 425
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426NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
427 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 428
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429NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
430 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 431
7d9f747b 432NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 433 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 434
7d9f747b 435NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 436
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437NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
438 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 439
7d9f747b 440NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 441
7d9f747b 442NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 443
7d9f747b 444NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 445
7d9f747b 446NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 447
17792b53 448NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 449 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 450
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451NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
452 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 453
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454NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mistmatches.
455 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 456
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457NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
458 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 459
7d9f747b 460NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 461
7d9f747b 462NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 463
7d9f747b 464NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 465
7d9f747b 466NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 467
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469Exim version 4.69
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472TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
473 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
474 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
475
476 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
477 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
478 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
479 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
480 build errors in sieve.c.
481
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482NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
483 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
484 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
485
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486SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
487
7d9f747b 488NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 489
7d9f747b 490NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 491
7d9f747b 492NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
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498PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
499
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500PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
501 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
502 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
503 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
504 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
505 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
506 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
507 for iplsearch lookups.
508
509 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
510 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
511 previously such lookups could never work.
512
513 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
514 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
515 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
516
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517TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
518 version.
519
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520MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
521 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
522 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
523 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
524 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
525 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
526
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527TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
528 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
529
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530MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
531 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
532 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
533 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
534 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
535 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
536
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537PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
538 local_scan API.
539
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540PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
541
6c512171
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542PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
543 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
544 encrypted.
545
546PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
547 by clients under certain conditions.
548
aa6dc513
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549PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
550 "_responses" off the end of the name.
551
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552PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
553
8f240103
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554PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
555 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
556
557PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
558
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559PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
560
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561PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
562
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563PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
564 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
565
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566PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
567
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568PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
569 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
570
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571PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
572
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573PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
574
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575PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
576 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
577 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
578 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 579
ddea74fa 580PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
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581 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
582 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
583
ddea74fa 584PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
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585 and InterBase are left for another time.)
586
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587PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
588
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589PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
590
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591PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
592
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593PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
594 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
595 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
596
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598Exim version 4.67
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600
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601MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
602 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
603 Jan Srzednicki.
604
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605PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
606 issue a MAIL command.
607
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608PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
609
610 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
611
612 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
613 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
614 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
615 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
616 item. This has been fixed.
617
618PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
619 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
620
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621PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
622 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
623
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624PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
625 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
626 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
627
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628SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
629
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630PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
631 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
632 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
633 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
634 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
635
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636MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
637 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
638 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
639
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640PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
641 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
642 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
643 the server_setid option was incorrect.
644
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645PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
646
6bf342e1
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647PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
648
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649PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
650 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
651 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
652 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
653 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
654
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655PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
656
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657PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
658 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
659 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
660 values).
661
9c57cbc0
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662PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
663
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664PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
665
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666PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
667
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668PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
669
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670PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
671
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672PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
673 no_callout_flush is set.
674
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675PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
676 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
677 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
678 fixed.
679
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680PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
681
e28326d8
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682PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
683 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
684 other ACL rejections are.
685
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686PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
687 with slight modification.
688
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689PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
690 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
691
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692PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
693 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
694 connection.
695
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696PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
697 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
698
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699SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
700
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701PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
702 expansion side effects.
703
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704PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
705 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
706 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
707 be the same.
708
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709MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
710 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
711 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
712
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713PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
714 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
715 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
716 were accidentally chopped off.
717
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718PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
719 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
720 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
721 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
722 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
723 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
724 pipelining has not been advertised.
725
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726PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
727
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728PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
729 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
730 This has been fixed.
731
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732PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
733 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
734 reported on Solaris.
735
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736PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
737 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
738 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
739 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
740 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
741 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
742 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
743
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744PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
745 cpus.
746
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747PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
748
b2d5182b
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749PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
750
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751PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
752 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
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753 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
754 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
755 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
756 criteria to be more general.
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758PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
759 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
760 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
761 host_all_ignored option.
762
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763PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
764 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
765 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
766 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
767 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
768 is what is supposed to happen).
769
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770PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
771 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
772 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
773 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
774 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
775 uses the Exim user.
776
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777PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
778 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
779 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
780 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
781 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
782 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
783 users.
784
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785PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
786
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787SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
788 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
789 (Jez Hancock).
790 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
791 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
792
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793SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
794
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795PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
796
58eb016e 797PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
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798 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
799 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
800 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
801 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
802 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
803 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
804 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 805 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
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806 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
807 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 808
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809PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
810 advertised in response to EHLO.
811
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815
816PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
817 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
818
819 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
820 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
821
822 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
823 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
824 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
825
826 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
827 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
828 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
829 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
830 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
831
832
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835
836TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
837 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
838 versions. (#438)
839
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840MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
841 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
842 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
843
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844PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
845 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
846 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
847 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
848 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
849 rather than extend the field.
850
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855TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
856 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
857 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
858 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
859 these files.
860
861TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
862 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
863 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
864
865TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
866 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
867 hence the _LINUX specificness.
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868
869TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
870 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
871 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
872 in the field name.
873
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874PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
875 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
876 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
877 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
878 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
879 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
880 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
881 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
882 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
883 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
884 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
885
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886PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
887 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
888
889PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
890 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
891 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
892 ignores EPIPE as well.
893
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894PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
895 (quoted-printable decoding).
896
cc2ed8f7 897PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 898 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 899
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900PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
901
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902PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
903
904PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
905
38a0a95f 906PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 907 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 908
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909JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
910 in 4.64-PH/09.
911
912JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
913 miscellaneous code fixes
914
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915PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
916 rejections.
917
26da7e20
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918PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
919 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
920 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
921 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
922 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
923 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
924 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
925 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 926
14aa5a05 927PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 928 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
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929 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
930 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
931 function.
932 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
933 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
934 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
935 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
936 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
937 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
938 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
939 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
940 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
941
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942PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
943 decoding.
944
e6f6568e
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945PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
946 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
947 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
948 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
949 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
950 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
951 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
952 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
953
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954PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
955 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
956 list.
957
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958PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
959 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
960 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
961 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
962 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
963 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
964 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
965 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
966 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
967 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
968 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
969 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
970 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
971
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972PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
973 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
974 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
975 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
976 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
977 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
978 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
979
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980PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
981 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
982 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
983 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
984 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
985 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
986 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
987 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
988 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
989 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
990
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991PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
992 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
993 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
994 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
995 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
996
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997PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
998 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
999 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1000 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1001 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1002 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1003 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1004
7befa435
PH
1005PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1006 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1007 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1008 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1009 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1010 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1011 been verified.
1012
48da4259 1013PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1014 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1015 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1016 and authorization.)
1017
48da4259
PH
1018PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1019 if any retry times were supplied.
1020
d1d5595c
PH
1021PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1022 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1023 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1024
0ef732d9
PH
1025PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1026
328895cc
PH
1027PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1028
fd700877
PH
1029PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1030 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1031 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1032 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1033 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1034 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1035
8dce1a6f
PH
1036PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1037 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1038
17af4a17
PH
1039PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1040 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1041 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1042
1043PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1044 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1045 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1046 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1047 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1048 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1049 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1050 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1051 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1052
1053 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1054 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1055 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1056 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1057 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1058 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1059 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1060 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1061 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1062
1063 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1064 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1065 hammering the server.
1066
c1114884
PH
1067PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1068 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1069
7a0743eb
PH
1070PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1071
0d85fa3f
PH
1072PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1073 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1074 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1075
1bf43b78
PH
1076PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1077 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1078 one case where this was not true.
1079
520de300
PH
1080PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1081 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1082 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1083 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1084 fails.
1085
48c7f9e2
PH
1086PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1087 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1088 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1089 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1090 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1091 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1092 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1093 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1094 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1095 smtp transport.
1096
99ea1c86
PH
1097PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1098 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1099 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1100 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1101
a2042e78
PH
1102PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1103 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1104
4fbcfc2e
PH
1105PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1106 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1107 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1108
aa41d2de
PH
1109PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1110
af561417
PH
1111PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1112
3cc66b45
PH
1113PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1114
194cc0e4
PH
1115PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1116 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1117 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1118 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1119
a401ddaa
PH
1120PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1121 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1122
4e88a19f
PH
1123PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1124 be meaningful with "accept".
1125
d7d7b289
SC
1126SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1127 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1128
1129SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1130 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1131 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1132
1133SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1134 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1135 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1136 there is data to show.
1137 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1138
1139SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1140 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1141 as well as the number of messages.
1142
1143SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1144 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1145 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1146
1147SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1148 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1149 have a flag are now skipped.
1150
1151SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1152 Added the -emptyok flag.
1153
1154SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1155 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1156
0ea2a468
JJ
1157JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1158 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1159 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1160
1161JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1162 match 4.64-PH/13
1163
1164JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1165 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1166
1167JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1168
1169JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1170 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1171
8a10f5a4
PH
1172PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1173
30e18802
PH
1174PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1175 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1176 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1177 contravention of the specifications.
1178
55728a4f
PH
1179PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1180 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1181 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1182
d7837193
PH
1183PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1184 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1185 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1186
87054a31
PH
1187PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1188
ea2c01d2
MH
1189MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1190 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1191 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1192 some point in the past.
1193
e4fa6968
PH
1194PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1195 transport during callout processing was broken.
1196
56f5d9bd
PH
1197PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1198 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1199
922e1c28
PH
1200PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1201 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1202
21eb6e72
PH
1203PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1204 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1205
a0540757
PH
1206PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1207
944e9e9c 1208
478be7b0
SC
1209Exim version 4.63
1210-----------------
1211
1212SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1213 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1214
1215SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1216 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1217 there is data to show.
1218 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1219
1220SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1221 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1222
2b965a65
TF
1223TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1224 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1225
45b91596
PH
1226TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1227 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1228
c59f5781
TF
1229TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1230 submissions from trusted users.
1231
90fc3069
TF
1232TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1233 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1234
6083aca0
TF
1235TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1236 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1237 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1238 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1239 there is now a framework to start from.
1240
765b530f
PH
1241PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1242 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1243 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1244
4e167a8c
PH
1245PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1246
4608d683
PH
1247PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1248
b8dc3e4a
PH
1249PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1250
5418e93b
PH
1251PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1252 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1253 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1254
b4a9bda2
PH
1255PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1256 libradius.
1257
45b91596
PH
1258PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1259 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1260 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1261
5547e2c5
PH
1262PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1263 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1264 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1265 its arguments.
1266
dbcef0ea
PH
1267PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1268 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1269 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1270 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1271 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1272
25257489
PH
1273PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1274 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1275
c816d124
PH
1276PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1277
a9ccd69a
PH
1278PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1279 operations in malware.c.
1280
75fa1910
PH
1281PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1282 signatures.
1283
a7d7aa58
PH
1284PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1285 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1286 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1287 all.
1288
42119b09
PH
1289PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1290 statements to "add_header".
1291
41609df5
PH
1292PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1293 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1294
a5bd321b
PH
1295PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1296 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1297 latter.
1298
e85a7ad5 1299PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1300 so that it is now:
1301
e85a7ad5
PH
1302 ${if or { \
1303 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1304 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1305 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1306 }{no}{yes}}
1307
e85a7ad5
PH
1308 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1309 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1310
d8fe1c03
PH
1311PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1312 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1313
16282d2b
PH
1314PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1315 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1316 any possible encoding problems.
1317
35d40a98
PH
1318PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1319 but not after initializing Perl.
1320
034d99ab
PH
1321PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1322 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1323 apparently, which is not desirable.
1324
6ec97b1b
PH
1325PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1326 queries.
1327
e22ca4ac
JJ
1328JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1329 --not options
1330
1331JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1332
33d73e3b
PH
1333PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1334 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1335 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1336 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1337
9ecb03f3
PH
1338PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1339 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1340 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1341
084efe8d
PH
1342PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1343 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1344 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1345 0.12.
1346
366fc9f0
PH
1347PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1348 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1349 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1350 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1351 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1352
c59f5781 1353
c887c79e
TF
1354Exim version 4.62
1355-----------------
1356
1357TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1358 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1359
1cce3af8
PH
1360PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1361 patch).
1362
afb3eaaf
PH
1363PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1364 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1365 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1366 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1367 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1368 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1369 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1370 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1371 451 error is used.
1372
e173618b
PH
1373PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1374
dd16e114
PH
1375PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1376 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1377 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1378
f7fd3850
PH
1379PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1380 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1381 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1382 odd errors.
1383
d87df92c
PH
1384PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1385 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1386
7e9f683d
PH
1387PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1388 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1389 option (which defaults to 0600).
1390
bfad5236
PH
1391PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1392
01c490df
PH
1393PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1394 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1395 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1396 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1397 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1398 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1399 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1400
d6629cdc
PH
1401PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1402
1cce3af8 1403
214e2000
PH
1404Exim version 4.61
1405-----------------
1406
1407PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1408 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1409 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1410 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1411 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1412 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1413 addresses as local.
1414
f9daeae0
PH
1415PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1416 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1417
7e66e54d
PH
1418PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1419
c8ea1597
PH
1420PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1421 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1422 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1423 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1424 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1425 grumble.
1426
911f6fde
PH
1427PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1428 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1429
47ca6d6c
PH
1430PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1431 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1432 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1433 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1434 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1435
ed0e9820
PH
1436PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1437 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1438 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1439 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1440
eff37e47
PH
1441PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1442 be the same on different OS.
1443
1921d2ea
PH
1444PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1445 testing.
1446
b3f69ca8
JJ
1447JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1448 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1449
1450JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1451 in 4.61-PH/06
1452
424a1c63
PH
1453PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1454 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1455 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1456 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1457 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1458 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1459 bounce message.
1460
7a100415
PH
1461PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1462 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1463 when Exim was called.
1464
19b9dc85
PH
1465PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1466 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1467
309bd837
PH
1468PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1469 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1470 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1471 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1472
59e82a2a
PH
1473PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1474 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1475 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1476 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1477 changes:
1478
1479 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1480 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1481 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1482
1483 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1484 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1485 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1486
9edc04ce
PH
1487PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1488 feature).
1489
1349e1e5
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1490PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1491 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1492 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1493 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1494 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1495 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1496 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1497 values from the SRV records were lost.
1498
ea49d0e1
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1499PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1500 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1501 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1502
064a94c9
PH
1503PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1504 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1505 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1506
727071f8
PH
1507PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1508 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1509 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1510 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1511 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1512 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1513 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1514 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1515 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 1516 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 1517
f78eb7c6
PH
1518PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1519 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1520 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1521
21c28500
PH
1522PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1523 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1524
1525PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1526 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1527 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1528 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1529 is given.
1530
1688f43b
PH
1531PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1532 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1533 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1534
1535PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1536 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1537 PH/23 above applies.
1538
9675b384
PH
1539PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1540 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1541 (for which there is an explicit test).
1542
6a3f1455
PH
1543PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1544
dac79d3e
PH
1545PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1546 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1547 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1548 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1549 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 1550
5977a0b3
PH
1551PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1552 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1553 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1554 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1555
c91535f3
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1556PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1557 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1558 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1559
0d46a8c8
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1560PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1561
278c6e6c
PH
1562PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1563
2cbb4081
PH
1564PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1565 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1566 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1567
3eef829e
PH
1568PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1569 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1570 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1571 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1572 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1573
1ab95fa6
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1574PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1575 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1576 the message gets confusing).
1577
230205fc
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1578PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1579 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1580 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1581 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1582
75e0e026
PH
1583PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1584 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1585 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1586 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1587 same order.
1588
1589PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1590 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1591 the different processes.
1592
145396a6
PH
1593PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1594
3cd34f13
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1595PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1596
11121d3d
JJ
1597JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1598 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1599
1600JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1601 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1602
1603JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1604 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1605 messages matching specified criteria.
1606
8def5aaf
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1607PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1608
929ba01c
PH
1609PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1610 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1611
2632889e
PH
1612PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1613 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1614 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1615 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1616 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1617 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1618 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1619 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1620 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1621 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1622
944a9c55
PH
1623PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1624 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1625 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1626
4a23603b
PH
1627PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1628
4730f942
PH
1629PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1630 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1631 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1632 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1633 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1634 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1635 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1636 the variable.
1637
30dba1e6
PH
1638PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1639 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
1640
382afc6b
PH
1641PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
1642
a86229cf
PH
1643PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
1644
50c99ba6
PH
1645PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1646
d35e429d
PH
1647PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
1648 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
1649 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
1650 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
1651 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
1652 size of the count of files.
1653
f90d018c
PH
1654PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
1655
75def545
PH
1656PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
1657 used in LMTP mode:
1658
1659 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
1660 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
1661 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
1662 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
1663
1664 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
1665 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
1666 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
1667
1668PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
1669 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
1670 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
1671 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
1672 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
1673
c46782ef
PH
1674PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
1675 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
1676
71fafd95
PH
1677PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
1678 will now be deprecated.
1679
2c5db4fd
PH
1680PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1681
9cf6b11a
JJ
1682JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
1683 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
1684 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
1685
1686JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
1687 with very large, slow to parse queues
1688
1689JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
1690
1691JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
1692
898d150f
PH
1693PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
1694 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
1695 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
1696 SMTP output lines.
1697
46218253
PH
1698PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
1699 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
1700 Sieve code now uses this.
1701
e97957bc
PH
1702PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
1703 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
1704
81e509d7
PH
1705PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
1706 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
1707
3d240ff7
PH
1708PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
1709
b37c4101
PH
1710PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
1711 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
1712 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
1713 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
1714 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
1715
79378e0f
PH
1716PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
1717 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
1718 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
1719 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
1720
e49c7bb4
PH
1721PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
1722
d114ec46
PH
1723PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
1724
f3d7df6c
PH
1725PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
1726 is preferred over IPv4.
1727
715ab376
PH
1728PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
1729 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
1730 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
1731 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
1732 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
1733 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
1734 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
1735
6b31b150
PH
1736PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
1737 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
1738 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
1739
1740PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
1741
d515a917
PH
1742PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
1743 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
1744 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
1745 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
1746 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
1747 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
1748 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
1749 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
1750 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
1751 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
1752 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
1753
9b8fadde
PH
1754PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
1755 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
1756 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
1757
214e2000 1758
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1759Exim version 4.60
1760-----------------
1761
cc38ddbf
PH
1762PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
1763
1764 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
1765 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
1766
1767 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
1768 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
1769 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 1770
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1771PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
1772
1773 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
1774 not a single digit.
1775
1776 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
1777 string.
1778
1779 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
1780 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
1781 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
1782 silly things.
1783
1784 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
1785 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
1786
1787 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
1788 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 1789
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PH
1790PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
1791 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
1792 "/bin:/usr/bin".
1793
f174f16e
PH
1794PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
1795 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 1796
c25242d7
PH
1797PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
1798 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
1799
1800 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
1801
1802 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
1803 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
1804 this:
1805
1806 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
1807
82c19f95
PH
1808PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
1809 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
1810 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
1811 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
1812 identical. For example:
1813
1814 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
1815
1816 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
1817 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
1818 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
1819
d7ffbc12
PH
1820PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
1821 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
1822 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
1823 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
1824
9f526266
PH
1825PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
1826 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
1827 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
1828 message.
1829
87fcc8b9
PH
1830PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
1831
1832 o fixes some comments
1833 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
1834 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
1835 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
1836 and documents the missing references header update
1837
1838 and most important:
1839
1840 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
1841 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
1842 result)
1843
456682f5
PH
1844PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
1845 Electronic Mail") by including:
1846
1847 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
1848
1849 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
1850 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
1851 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
1852 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
1853 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
1854
1855 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
1856
1857 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
1858
1859 The auto-replied keyword:
1860
1861 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
1862 message by an automatic process,
1863
1864 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
1865
1866 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
1867 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
1868
1869 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
1870 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
1871 other messages.
1872
3e46c1aa
PH
1873PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
1874 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 1875
49826d12
PH
1876PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
1877
eba0c039
PH
1878PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
1879 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
1880 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
1881
a0d6ba8a
PH
1882PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
1883 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
1884 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
1885
f0917727
PH
1886PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
1887 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
1888 and treats the condition as false.
1889
096fee00
PH
1890PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
1891
024bd3c2
PH
1892PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
1893 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
1894 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
1895 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
1896 not changing the active code.
1897
1898 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
1899 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
1900
1901 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
1902 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
1903
df199fec
PH
1904PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
1905 (Bugzilla #53).
1906
d27f1df3
PH
1907PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
1908 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
1909 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
1910 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
1911 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
1912 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
1913 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
1914 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
1915 the text comparison.
1916
96776534
PH
1917PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
1918 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
1919 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
1920 The same fix has been applied.
1921
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1923Exim version 4.54
1924-----------------
1925
1926PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
1927 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
1928 It now does.
1929
99a4b039
PH
1930PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
1931 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
1932
1933PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
1934
4b233853
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1935PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
1936 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
1937 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
1938 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
1939 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
1940
8857ccfd
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1941TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
1942 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
1943 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
1944 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
1945 or /domain=).
1946
433a2980
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1947PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
1948 testing suite.
1949
3e46c1aa 1950
9a799bc0 1951
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1952Exim version 4.53
1953-----------------
1954
1955TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
1956 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
1957
13b685f9
PH
1958PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
1959
395ff96d
PH
1960PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
1961
5b68f6e4
PH
1962PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
1963 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
1964 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
1965
1ab52c69
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1966PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
1967 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
1968 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
1969
b07e6aa3
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1970PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
1971 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
1972 operating systems.
1973
254e032f
PH
1974PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
1975 ${stat: expansion item.
1976
3af76a81
PH
1977PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
1978 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
1979
2548ba04
PH
1980PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
1981 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
1982 file for comments.
1983
b6c6011d
PH
1984PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
1985
cf39cf57
PH
1986PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
1987 setting.
1988
f1513293
PH
1989PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
1990 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
1991
727549a4
PH
1992TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
1993
af46795e
PH
1994PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
1995 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
1996 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
1997 the end of the subprocess.
1998
d7b47fd0
PH
1999PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2000 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2001 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2002 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2003 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2004
ee744174
JJ
2005JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2006
b582ab87
PH
2007TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2008
41a13e0a
PH
2009PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2010 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2011
f625cc5a
PH
2012PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2013
2014PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2015
21f7af35
PH
2016PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2017 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2018 HP-UX compiler.
2019
31480e42
PH
2020PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2021
2d280592
PH
2022PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2023 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2024 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2025
7cd1141b
PH
2026PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2027 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2028
2029PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2030 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2031
750af86e
PH
2032PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2033 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2034
2035 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2036 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2037
2038 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2039 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2040 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2041 contributed by a Radius user.
2042
2043PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2044 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2045
4304270b
TK
2046TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2047 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2048
750af86e
PH
2049PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2050 available.
2051
64ffc24f
PH
2052PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2053 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2054 received.
2055
5dd9625b
PH
2056PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2057 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2058 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2059 header lines when this was not necessary.
2060
5591031b
PH
2061PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2062
ba18e66a
PH
2063PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2064 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2065 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2066 exists".
2067
9cec981f
PH
2068PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2069 -bV or -d is used.
2070
aa2b5c79
PH
2071PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2072 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2073 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2074 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2075
48a53b7f
PH
2076PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2077
1c59d63b
PH
2078PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2079
671012da
TK
2080TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2081
1509d3a8
PH
2082PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2083
2084PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2085 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2086 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2087 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2088 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2089 settings.
2090
2091PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2092
2fe1a124
PH
2093PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2094 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2095 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2096 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2097 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2098 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2099 which is clearly wrong.
2100
8800895a
PH
2101PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2102
ccfdb010
PH
2103PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2104 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2105 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2106 subsequently added.
2107
1130bfb0
PH
2108PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2109 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2110
ebcb507f
PH
2111PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2112
c35e155c
PH
2113PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2114 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2115
95d1f782
PH
2116PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2117 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2118
fd6de02e
PH
2119PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2120 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2121
58de37c5
PH
2122PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2123 recipients, not senders.
2124
261cf466
TF
2125TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2126 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2127
3ee512ff
PH
2128PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2129
e08c430f
PH
2130PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2131
bef5a11f
PH
2132PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2133 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2134 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2135 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2136
7546de58
TF
2137TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2138
e5d5a95f
TF
2139TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2140 clock is set back in time.
2141
2e88a017
TF
2142TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2143 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2144
a5f65aa4
TF
2145TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2146 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2147
e7726cbf
PH
2148PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2149 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2150 (see PH/47 above).
2151
a7fdad5b
TF
2152TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2153 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2154 header rewrites.
2155
6af56900
PH
2156PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2157 type ("H").
2158
0925ede6
PH
2159PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2160
66afa403
TF
2161TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2162 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2163 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2164
0154e85a
TF
2165TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2166 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2167 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2168 helo verification defer as a failure.
2169
16f12c76
PH
2170PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2171 actual error message.
2172
bbe902f0 2173
e5a9dba6
PH
2174Exim version 4.52
2175-----------------
2176
2177TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2178
22c3b60b
PH
2179PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2180 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2181 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2182 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2183
06a9b4b5
PH
2184TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2185
c1ac6996
PH
2186PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2187 can still be requested.
2188
9c7a242c
PH
2189PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2190 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2191 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2192 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2193
87ba3f5f
PH
2194TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2195 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2196 circumstances, but probably never did.
2197
2198PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2199 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2200 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2201 in the header line.
2202
29aba418
TF
2203TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2204
fe0dab11
TF
2205TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2206 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2207
11d337a4
TK
2208TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2209
2210TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2211
415c8f3b
PH
2212PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2213 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2214 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2215 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2216 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2217 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2218
958541e9
PH
2219PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2220 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2221 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2222 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2223 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2224 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2225
c206415f
TK
2226TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2227 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2228
2a4be8f9
PH
2229PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2230 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2231
1cba11c5
SC
2232SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2233 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2234
2235SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2236
2237SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2238
2239SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2240
2241SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2242
2243SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2244
2245SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2246
1005d00e
TK
2247TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2248
2249TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2250 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2251 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2252
2253TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2254 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2255 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2256 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2257
9b4768fa
PH
2258PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2259 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2260 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2261
2262PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2263 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2264 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2265 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2266
0d7eb84a
PH
2267PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2268 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2269 to be made).
2270
2271PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2272 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2273 should work with maildirs and everything.
2274
40727bee
TK
2275TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2276 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2277
554d2369
TF
2278TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2279 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2280
1f922db1
PH
2281PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2282 function for BDB 4.3.
2283
ef213c3b
PH
2284PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2285
8ac170f3
PH
2286PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2287 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2288 involved.
2289
b1c749bb
PH
2290PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2291 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2292 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2293 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2294 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2295 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2296
4aac9b49
PH
2297PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2298 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2299 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2300 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2301 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2302 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2303 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2304 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2305
294520c8
TK
2306TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2307 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2308 details.
2309
5bd022fe
PH
2310PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2311 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2312
90e9ce59
PH
2313PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2314 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2315 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2316 test. It is now used for both.
2317
5ea81592
PH
2318PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2319 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2320 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2321 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2322 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2323 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2324
c6c2dc1d
PH
2325PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2326 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2327 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2328 string_vformat().
2329
fffffe4c
PH
2330PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2331 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2332 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2333
9a26b6b2
PH
2334PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2335 experimental DomainKeys support:
2336
2337 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2338 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2339 the control was given.
2340
2341 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2342
4aee0225
PH
2343PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2344
32d668a5
PH
2345PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2346
8187c3f3
PH
2347PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2348 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2349 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2350 db.h files).
2351
ff790e47 2352PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2353 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2354 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2355 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2356 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2357 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2358 course.
ff790e47 2359
5417f6d1
PH
2360PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2361 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2362 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2363 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2364 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2365 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2366
59cf8544
PH
2367PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2368 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2369 do -d+all out of habit.
2370
e7ad8a65
PH
2371PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2372 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2373 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2374
ade42478
PH
2375PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2376 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2377 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2378 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2379 record types that Exim uses.
2380
182ad5cf
PH
2381PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2382 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2383 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2384 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2385 non-existent file that was broken.
2386
b0d9fc80
TK
2387TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2388 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2389
2390TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2391 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2392 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2393
2394TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2395
47c7a64a
PH
2396PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2397 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2398 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2399 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2400 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2401 same time.
2402
a388bce4
SC
2403SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2404 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2405 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2406 at a slight CPU cost.
2407
2408SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2409 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2410
2411SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2412 by Marc Sherman.
2413
0793e4ed
SC
2414SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2415
c58b88df
PH
2416PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2417 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2418
e7ad8a65 2419
7982096b
PH
2420Exim version 4.51
2421-----------------
2422
1a46a8c5
PH
2423TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2424 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2425
2f079f46 2426TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
2427
2428TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2429
2430PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2431 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2432
2433PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2434 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2435 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2436 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2437 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2438 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2439 file.
2440
2441PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2442 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2443 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2444 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2445 these two options.
2446
2447PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2448 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2449 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2450 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2451 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2452 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2453 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 2454 address.
1a46a8c5
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2455
2456PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2457 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2458
2459PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2460 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2461 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2462 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2463 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2464 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2465
2466PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2467 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2468 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2469 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2470
2471PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2472 Finch).
2473
2474PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2475 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 2476
49c2d5ea
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2477PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2478 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
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2479 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2480 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2481 message.
49c2d5ea 2482
bf759a8b
PH
2483PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2484
83364d30
PH
2485PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2486 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2487
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2488PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2489 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2490 to what was transported.)
2491
7dbf77c9
PH
2492TF/01 Added $received_time.
2493
74e0617f
PH
2494PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2495 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2496 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2497 spamd_address settings.
2498
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2499PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2500 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2501 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2502 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2503 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2504
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2505PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2506
7766a4f0
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2507PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2508 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2509 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2510 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2511 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2512
8b417f2c
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2513PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2514 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2515
901f42cb
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2516PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2517 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2518 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2519 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2520 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2521 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2522 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2523 for failure.
2524
f9b9210e
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2525PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2526 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2527 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2528 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2529 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2530 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2531 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2532 "input=".
2533
54cdb463
PH
2534PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2535
cf00dad6
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2536PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2537 driver and ACL definitions.
2538
acb1b346
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2539PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2540 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2541
c5ddb310
PH
2542PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2543 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2544 understands it better than I do:
2545
2546 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2547 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2548
2549 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2550 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2551 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2552 => three warnings about OTP not working
2553 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2554
2555 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2556 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2557 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2558 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2559 for each call.)
2560 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2561 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2562
2563 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2564 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2565 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2566
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2567PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2568 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2569 specified.
2570
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2571PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2572 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2573 "Linux".
2574
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PH
2575PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2576 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2577 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2578
2579 warn !verify = sender
2580 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2581
2582 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2583 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2584
7e8bec7a
PH
2585PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2586
2587 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2588 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2589
2590 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2591 nomenclature these days.)
2592
e4a89c47
PH
2593PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2594 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2595
5ca2a9a1
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2596PH/30 In these circumstances:
2597 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2598 . First host does not offer TLS;
2599 . First host accepts first address;
2600 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2601 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2602 . Second host accepts second address.
2603 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2604 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2605 address.
7e8bec7a 2606
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PH
2607PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2608 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2609 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2610 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2611 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2612
fed77020
PH
2613PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2614 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2615
7fe1560f
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2616PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2617 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 2618
ebb6e6d5
PH
2619PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2620 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2621 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2622
9c4e8f60
PH
2623PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2624 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2625 overlooked.
2626
2627PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2628
d7174846
PH
2629PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2630 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2631 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2632 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2633 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2634 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2635 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2636
2637 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2638 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2639 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
2640 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
2641 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
2642
2643 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
2644 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
2645 routed further.
2646
cfe75fc3
PH
2647PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
2648 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
2649 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
2650 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
2651 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
2652 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
2653
be22d70e
PH
2654PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
2655
0612b098
PH
2656PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
2657 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
2658 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
2659 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
2660 printable escape sequences.
2661
2e0c1448
PH
2662PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
2663 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
2664 body only.
2665
447d236c
PH
2666PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
2667 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
2668 are as follows:
2669
2670 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
2671 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
2672 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
2673 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
2674 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
2675
2676 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
2677 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
2678 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
2679
d20976dc
PH
2680PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
2681
f656d135
PH
2682PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
2683 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
2684 play with."
2685
2e2a30b4
PH
2686PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
2687 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
2688 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
2689 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
2690 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
2691 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
2692 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
2693 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
2694 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
2695 the log output.
2696
9176e9f0
PH
2697PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
2698 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
2699 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
2700 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
2701 "make".
2702
7982096b 2703
bbe902f0
PH
2704A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
2705----------------------------------------
2706
2707Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
2708changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
2709needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
2710in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
2711that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
2712release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
2713from 4.43.
2714
2715I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
27164.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
2717those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
2718historical information.
2719
2720
f7b63901 2721Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
2722-----------------
2723
5fe762f6
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2724 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2725
139059f6 2726 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 2727 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 2728
7086e875
PH
2729 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2730 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2731 place.
2732
35af9f61
PH
2733 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2734 filter fails to execute.
2735
b668c215
PH
2736 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2737 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2738 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2739 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2740 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2741
a494b1e1
PH
2742 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
2743
2744 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2745 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2746 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2747 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 2748
c5fcb476
PH
2749 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2750 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2751 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2752 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2753 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2754
69358f02
PH
2755 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
2756
5be20824
PH
275710. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2758
eb2c0248
PH
275911. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2760 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2761 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2762 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2763
2a3eea10
PH
276412. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2765 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2766 sender verification.
2767
276813. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
2769 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
2770
23c7ff99
PH
277114. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
2772
4deaf07d
PH
277315. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
2774 connection timeout.
2775
926e1192
PH
277616. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2777 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2778
650edc6f
PH
277917. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2780 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2781
2c7db3f5
PH
278218. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
2783 information about exactly what failed.
2784
3d235903
PH
278519. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
2786
7c7ad977
PH
278720. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
2788 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
2789 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
2790
981756db
PH
279121. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
2792 It is now set to "smtps".
2793
d4eb88df
PH
279422. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
2795 ignore_target_hosts.
2796
279723. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
2798 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
2799 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
2800 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
2801 "[x.x.x.x]".
2802
7d468ab8
PH
280324. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
2804 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
2805 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
2806
280725. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
2808 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
2809 wake it up if nothing else does.
2810
62c0818f
PH
281126. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
2812 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
2813 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
2814 end up negative.
2815
26034054
PH
281627. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
2817 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
2818
af66f652
PH
281928. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
2820
90af77f4
PH
282129. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
2822 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
2823 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
2824 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
2825 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
2826 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
2827 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
2828 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
2829
d8ef3577
PH
283030. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
2831 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
2832 than one IP address.
2833
5cb8cbc6
PH
283431. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
2835 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
2836 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
2837 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
2838
14702f5b
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283932. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
2840 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
2841 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
2842 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
2843 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
2844 1024 to 2048 bytes.
2845
063b1e99
PH
284633. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
2847 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
2848 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
2849 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
2850
652e1b65
PH
285134. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
2852 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
2853 respected.
2854
6f0c9a4f
PH
285535. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
2856 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
2857 $sender_host_address.
2858
33397d19
PH
285936. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
2860 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
2861 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
2862 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
2863 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
2864 very small.
2865
7bb56e1f
PH
286637. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
2867
2868 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
2869 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
2870
ea3bc19b
PH
2871 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
2872 just the host names, not the priorities.
2873
2874 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
2875 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
2876 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 2877
ea3bc19b 2878 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 2879 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 2880
0bcb2a0e
PH
288138. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
2882 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
2883 domain.
2884
2ac0e484
PH
288539. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
2886
4e1fde53
PH
288740. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
2888 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
2889
de365ded
PH
289041. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
2891 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
2892 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
2893
f05da2e8
PH
289442. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
2895
d6453af2
PH
289643. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
2897
f7b63901
PH
289844. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
2899
290045. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
2901 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
2902 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
2903 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
2904 because the tests only now provoked it.
2905
a444213a
PH
290646. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
2907 (this can affect the format of dates).
2908
0ec020ea
PH
290947. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
2910 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
2911 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
2912 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
2913
b1206957
PH
291448. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
2915
291649. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
2917 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
2918 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
2919 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
2920
26dd5a95
PH
292150. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
2922 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
2923 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
2924
343b2385
PH
292551. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
2926 autoreply.
2927
1c5466b9
PH
292852. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
2929 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
2930 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
2931 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
2932 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
2933 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
2934 is going on).
2935
55ee9ee3
PH
293653. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
2937 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
2938 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
2939 the line.
2940
d38f8232
PH
294154. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
2942 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
2943 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
2944
2945 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
2946 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
2947 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
2948 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
2949 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
2950 so I produce this patch..."
2951
3295e65b
PH
2952 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
2953 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
2954 is not defined.
2955
7102e136
PH
295655. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
2957 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
2958 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
2959 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 2960 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 2961
3ca0ba97
PH
296256. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
2963
c2bcbe20
PH
296457. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
2965 long debug lines gets shown.
2966
18ce445d
PH
296758. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
2968 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
2969
1f5b4c3d
PH
297059. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
2971
2972 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
2973 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
2974 of $primary_hostname.
2975
b975ba52
PH
297660. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
2977 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
2978 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
2979 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
2980 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
2981 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
2982 by change 4.50/55 above.
2983
2984 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
2985 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
2986 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
2987 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
2988 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
2989 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 2990 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
2991
299261. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
2993 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
2994 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 2995 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 2996
17ffcae7
PH
299762. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
2998 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
2999
d95f9fdb
PH
300063. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3001 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3002 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3003 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3004 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3005
86b8287f
PH
300664. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3007 This has been fixed.
3008
60dc5e56
PH
300965. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3010 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3011 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3012 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3013 the caching.)
3014
533244af
PH
301566. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3016
a5a28604
PH
301767. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3018 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3019 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3020 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3021
7e634d24
PH
302268. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3023 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3024
3e11c26b
PH
302569. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3026 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3027 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3028
6729cf78
PH
302970. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3030 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3031 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3032 message there.
3033
00f00ca5
PH
303471. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3035 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3036 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3037
c9bdd01c
PH
303872. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3039 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3040 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3041 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3042
d43194df
PH
304373. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3044 during host lookups.
3045
fe5b5d0b
PH
304674. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3047 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3048
3049 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3050
76a2d7ba
PH
305175. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3052 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3053 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3054 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3055 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3056 background.
3057
305876. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3059 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3060
04f7d5b9
PH
306177. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3062 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3063 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3064
bc60667e
PH
306578. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3066
bb6e88ff
PH
306779. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3068 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3069 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3070 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3071 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3072 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3073 process earlier.
3074
1e70f85b
PH
307580. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3076 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3077 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3078 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3079 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3080
308181. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3082 tables).
3083
4e01f9d6
PH
308482. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3085
1ee1cef2
PH
308683. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3087 "vacation" handling.
3088
6e2b4ccc
PH
308984. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3090 OS variants using glibc.
3091
8e669ac1
PH
309285. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3093
495ae4b0 3094
bbe902f0
PH
3095----------------------------------------------------
3096See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3097----------------------------------------------------
3098
3099
3100Exim version 4.44
3101-----------------
3102
3103 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3104 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3105 transport
3106
3107 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3108 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3109 place.
3110
3111 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3112 filter fails to execute.
3113
3114 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3115 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3116 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3117 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3118 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3119
3120 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3121 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3122 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3123 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3124
3125 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3126 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3127 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3128 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3129 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3130
3131 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3132
3133 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3134 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3135 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3136 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3137
3138 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3139 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3140 sender verification.
3141
314210. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3143 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3144
314511. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3146 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3147
314812. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3149 ignore_target_hosts.
3150
315113. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3152 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3153 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3154 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3155 "[x.x.x.x]".
3156
315714. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3158 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3159 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3160
316115. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3162 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3163 wake it up if nothing else does.
3164
316516. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3166 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3167 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3168 end up negative.
3169
317017. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3171 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3172
ea3a6f44 317318. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3174
317519. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3176 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3177 empty pattern.
3178
317920. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3180 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3181 one IP address.
3182
ea3a6f44
NM
318321. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3184 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3185 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3186 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3187 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3188 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3189
ea3a6f44
NM
319022. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3191 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3192 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3193
319423. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3195 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3196 $sender_host_address.
3197
319824. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3199
ea3a6f44
NM
320025. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3201 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3202 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3203
320426. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3205 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3206
ea3a6f44
NM
320727. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3208 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3209
ea3a6f44
NM
321028. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3211 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3212 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3213 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3214
321529. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3216 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3217 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3218
ea3a6f44
NM
321930. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3220 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3221 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3222 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3223
ea3a6f44
NM
322431. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3225 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3226 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3227
ea3a6f44
NM
322831. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3229 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3230
ea3a6f44
NM
323132. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3232 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3233 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3234 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3235 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3236 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3237 is going on).
bbe902f0 3238
ea3a6f44
NM
323933. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3240 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3241 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3242 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3243 CAN-2005-0021
3244
ea3a6f44
NM
324534. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3246 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3247 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3248 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3249 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3250 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3251 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3252
3253 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3254 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3255 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3256 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3257 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3258 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3259 CAN-2005-0021
3260
ea3a6f44
NM
326135. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3262 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3263 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3264 CAN-2005-0022
3265
ea3a6f44
NM
326636. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3267 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3268 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3269 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3270 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3271
ea3a6f44
NM
327237. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3273 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3274 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3275 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3276 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3277
ea3a6f44
NM
327838. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3279 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3280 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3281 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3282 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3283
3284
495ae4b0
PH
3285Exim version 4.43
3286-----------------
3287
3288 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3289 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3290 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3291 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3292 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3293 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3294 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3295
3296 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3297 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3298 the delivery.
3299
3300 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3301
3302 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3303
3304 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3305 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3306 to local_scan().
3307
3308 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3309 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3310 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3311 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3312 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3313
3314 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3315 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3316
3317 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3318
3319 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3320
332110. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3322 header_sender only.
3323
332411. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3325 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3326
332712. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3328 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3329 affecting debugging statements).
3330
333113. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3332
333314. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3334 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3335 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3336 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3337 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3338 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3339 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3340 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3341 after the received time, and all would be well.
3342
334315. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3344 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3345 condition in an expansion string.
3346
334716. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3348
334917. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3350 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3351 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3352 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3353 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3354 job under whatever limits there are.
3355
335618. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3357
335819. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3359 space).
3360
336120. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3362 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3363 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3364 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3365 return path is set.
3366
336721. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3368 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3369 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3370 binary data in such strings.
3371
337222. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3373
337423. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3375 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3376 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3377 failure, which is pointless.
3378
337924. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3380
338125. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3382
338326. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3384 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3385 Sender: header lines.
3386
338727. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3388 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3389 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3390
339128. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3392 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3393 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3394 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3395 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3396 happens.
3397
339829. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3399 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3400 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3401 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3402 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3403
340430. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3405 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3406 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3407 1024.
3408
340931. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3410 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3411
341232. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3413 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3414
341533. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3416
341732. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3418
341933. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3420
342134. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3422 syntax error.
3423
342435. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3425