ARC: Fix signing for case when DKIM signing failed
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495ae4b0 1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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3This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
4affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
5options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
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11JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
12 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
13
14JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
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15 non-signal-safe functions being used.
16
17JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
18 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
19 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
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21JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
22 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
23 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
24
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25JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
26 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
27 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
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28 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
29 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
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30 messed with.
31
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32PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
33 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
34
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35JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
36 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
37 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
38 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
39 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
40 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
41 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
42
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43JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
44 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
45
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46JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
47 legitimate.
48
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49JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
50 Previously this would segfault.
51
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52JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
53 segfault.
54
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60 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
61 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
62 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
63 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
64 be defined in redis_servers.
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66GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
67 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
68
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69JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
70 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
71 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
72 extant use locations.
73
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74JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
75 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
76
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77JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
78 Previously only the last row was returned.
79
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80JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
81 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
82 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
83 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
84 input.
85
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86JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
87 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
88 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
89 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
90 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
91 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
92 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
93 Main pool for expansions.
94 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
95 active in the testsuite.
96 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
97
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98JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
99 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
100 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
101 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
102 round-robin DNS.
103
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104JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
105 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
106 failure response.
107
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108JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
109 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
110 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
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112JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
113 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
114 ClamAV interface method is removed.
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116JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
117 rows affected is given instead).
118
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119JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
120 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
121
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122JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
123 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
124 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
125 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
126 for all multi-message initiating connections.
127
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128JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
129 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
130 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
131
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132JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
133 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
134 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
135 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
136 separate.
137
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138JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
139 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
140 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
141 fake-reject.
142
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143HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
144
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145JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
146 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
147
aab9a843 148PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
7be14582 149 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
aab9a843 150 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
7be14582 151
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152JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
153 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
154 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
155 and send a quit.
156
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157JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
158 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
159
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160JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
161 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
162 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
163
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164JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
165 for the build is renamed.
166
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167JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
168 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
169 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
170
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171JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
172 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
173 result replacing the original.
174
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175JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
176 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
177 and the resources needed to be freed.
178
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179JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
180
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181JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
182 was not propagated.
183
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184JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
185 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
186 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
187 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
188
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189JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
190 length value. Previously this would segfault.
191
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192HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
193 newer versions of the scanner.
194
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195JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
196 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
197 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
198 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
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199 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
200 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
201 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
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203JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
204 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
205 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
206 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
207 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
208 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
209 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
210 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
211 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
212 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
213
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214JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
215 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
216
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217JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
218
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219HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
220 allows proper process termination in container environments.
221
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222JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
223 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
224
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225JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
226 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
227 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
228
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229JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
230 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
231 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
5add7dc4 232 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
857eaf37 233
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234JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
235 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
236 would be spooled.
237
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238PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
239 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
240
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241HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
242 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
243 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
244 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
245 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
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247JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
248 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
249 lines.
250
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251JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
252 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
253
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254PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
255 suffix list.
256
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257JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
258 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
259 "bare" representation.
260
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261JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
262 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
263 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
264 corrupted the output.
265
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269
270JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
271 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
272 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
273 pairs of long lines into single ones.
274
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275PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
276 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
277
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278JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
279 This permits better logging.
280
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281JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
282 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
283 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
284 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
285 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
5013d912 286 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
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289 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
290 "exiwhat" output.
291
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292PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
293 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
294 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
295
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296JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
297 than 255 are no longer allowed.
298
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299JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
300 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
301 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
302 client, there is no benefit for these.
303 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
304 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
305 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
306 is used (3.2.4 +).
307
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308PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
309 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
310
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311JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
312 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
313 erroneously found still-pending ones.
314
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315JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
316 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
317
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318JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
319 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
320 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
321 signature and again for transmission.
322
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323JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
324 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
7d758a6a 325 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
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327JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
328 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
329 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
330 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
331 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
332 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
333 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
334
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335JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
336 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
337 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
a5ffa9b4 338 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
40525d07 339
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340PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
341 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
342 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
343 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
344 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
345 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
346 processing options.
347
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348JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
349 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
350 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
351 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
352 connections.
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354PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
355 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
356 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
357 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
358 versions.
359
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360JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
361 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
362 inaccessible.
363
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364JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
365 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
366 banner-time rejection.
367
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368JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
369 callout/hold.
370
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371PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
372 is the name of a transport.
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373 Fixes bug 2140.
374
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375HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
376
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377JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
378 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
379
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380JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
381 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
382 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
383 during compilation.
384
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385JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
386 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
387 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
02745400 388 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
0a6c178c 389
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390JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
391 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
392 initial verify call returned a defer.
393
ad1a76fe 394JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
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395 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
396
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397JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
398 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
399
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400JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
401 if present. Previously it was ignored.
402
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403JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
404 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
405
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406JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
407 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
408 extensible.
409
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410PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
411 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
412
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413PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
414 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
415 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
416
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417JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
418 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
419 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
420 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
421
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422HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess where chunked
423 and confused the parent.
424
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425JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
426 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
427
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428JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
429 for log purposes.
430
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431JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
432 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
433 out-of-order delivery.
434
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435JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
436 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
437 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
438 error for the HELO.
439
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440JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
441 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
442 desynchronisation.
443
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444JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
445 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
446 one run was done. Bug 2189.
447
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448JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
449 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
450 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
451 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
452 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
453 message is still "Temporary local problem".
454
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455JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
456 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
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457 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
458
459HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
460 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
461 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
625667b6 462
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463JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
464 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
465 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
466 though a different problem.
467
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9427e879 472JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
4c04137d 473 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
fd047340 474
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475JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
476
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477PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
478 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
479
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480JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
481 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
482
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483JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
484 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
485 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
486 before acknowledging the chunk.
487
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488PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
489 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
490 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
491
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492JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
493 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
494 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
495 should.
496
497JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
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498 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
499 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
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bd8fbe36 501JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
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502 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
503
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504JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
505 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
506 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
507 body hash calculated value.
508
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509JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
510 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
511 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
512
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513JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
514
515JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
516 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
517
518JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
519 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
520 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
521
522JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
523 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
524 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
525 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
526 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
527 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
528
529JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
530 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
531 past that check, despite the cost.
532
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533JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
534 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
535 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
536
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537PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
538 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
539 TLS library to consume.
540
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541PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
542
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543PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
544
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545JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
546 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
547 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
548 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
549 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
550 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
551 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
552
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553PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
554
555PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
556
557PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
558 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
559 should be warning-free.
560
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561JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
562
563HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
564 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
565
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566HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
567 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
568 general solution here.
569
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570PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
571 already-broken messages in the queue.
572
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573JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
574
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575JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
576
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581JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
582 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
8d042305 583
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584JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
585 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
586 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
587
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588JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
589 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
590 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
591 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
592 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
593 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
594 if one fails this test.
595 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
596 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
597
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598JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
599 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
600
23bb6982 601JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
f59aaaaa 602 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
23bb6982 603
0bd1b1ed 604JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
f42deca9 605 in rewrites and routers.
0bd1b1ed 606
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607JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
608 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
609
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610JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
611 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
612
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613JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
614
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615JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
616 certificate).
617
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618JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
619 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
620 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
621 connection after a verify cache hit.
622 Do not update it with the verify result either.
623
624JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
625 when routing results in more than one destination address.
626
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627JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
628 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
629 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
630 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
631 when the cutthrough connection is made).
632
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633JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
634 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
635
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636JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
637 Previously they were not counted.
638
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639JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
640 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
641 that needed the lookup.
642
4c04137d 643JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
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644 distinguished as "(=".
645
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646JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
647 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
648
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649JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
650
651JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
652 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
860cdda2 653
4c04137d 654JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
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655 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
656
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657JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
658 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
659 compatible.
660
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661JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
662 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
663 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
664 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
665
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666JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
667
f59aaaaa 668JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
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669 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
670 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
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672JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
673 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
674 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
675 be lost.
676
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677JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
678 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
679 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
680 itself :(
681
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682JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
683 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
684 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
685
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686JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
687 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
688 options.
689
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690JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
691
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692PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
693 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
694
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695PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
696 are not in the system include path.
697
ad7fc6eb 698JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
f59aaaaa 699 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
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700 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
701 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
ad7fc6eb 702
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703JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
704 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
705 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
706
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707JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
708
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709HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
710 an incoming connection.
711
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712HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
713 to rspamd.
714
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715HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
716 fallback to "prime256v1".
8d042305 717
87cb4a16 718JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
4c57a40e 719 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
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720
721
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725JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
726 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
727 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
728 client dropping the TLS connection.
0d9b78be 729
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730TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
731 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
732
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733TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
734 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
735 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
736 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
737 outgoing I= field.
738
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739JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
740 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
741 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
742 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
743 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
744 check on the next write.
745
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746HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
747 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
748 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
749 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
750 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
751
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752JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
753 mime_regex ACL conditions.
754
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755JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
756 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
757 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
758
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759JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
760 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
761 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
762 an authenticate fail is not an error.
763
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764HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
765 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
766
4c04137d 767JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
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768 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
769
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770JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
771 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
772 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
773 distinct.
774
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775JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
776
777JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
778
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779JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
780
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781JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
782 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
783
98b98887 784JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
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785 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
786
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787JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
788
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789JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
790 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
791
792JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
793
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794JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
795 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
796
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797JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
798
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799JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
800 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
4c04137d 801 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
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802 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
803 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
804 they will retry in-clear.
805 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
806 at installation time.
807
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808HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
809 with the $config_file variable.
810
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811JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
812 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
813 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
814 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
4c04137d 815 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
5ef5dd52 816
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817GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
818 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
819 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
820 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
821 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
822
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823JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
824
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825JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
826 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
827 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
828 list order is no longer honoured.
829
4c04137d 830JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
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831 for DKIM processing.
832
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833JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
834 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
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836JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
837 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
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838 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
839 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
cee5f132 840
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841JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
842 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
843
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844JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
845 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
846
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847JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
848 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
849
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850JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
851
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852JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
853 cached by the daemon.
854
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855JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
856 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
857
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858JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
859 keys are given for lookup.
860
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861JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
862 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
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863 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
864 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
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866JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
867 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
868 server-side so match that on older versions.
869
07c73177 870JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
fa01e4f8 871 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
07c73177 872 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
fa01e4f8 873
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874JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
875 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
876
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877JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
878 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
879 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
62ac2eb7 880 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
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881 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
882 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
883 initial truncated version.
884
ab9152ff 885JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
df3def24 886
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887JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
888
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889JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
890 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
891
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892JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
893
bc3c7bb7 894HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
df3def24 895
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896JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
897 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
898 induced overflows.
899
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900JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
901 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
902 stage.
903
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904JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
905 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
906
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907JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
908 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
909 former class.
910
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911JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
912 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
913 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
914
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915JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
916 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
917 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
918 extraction. Accept either.
919
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924JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
925 expanded.
926
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927JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
928
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929JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
930 it.
931
01a4a5c5 932JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
b3ef41c9 933 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
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934 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
935 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
936
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0e0f3f56 938 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
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940
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942 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
943 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
944 TLS connections
610ff438 945
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946JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
947 sites use this now.
948
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949JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
950 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
951 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
952 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
953 have a dsn_lasthop option.
954
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955JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
956 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
23763898 957 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
4e71661f 958
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959JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
960
aeaf5db3
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961JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
962 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
963
5032d1cf
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964JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
965 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
966
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967JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
968 /defer_ok option.
969
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970JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
971 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
972
fd4d8871 973JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
dc7b3d36 974 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
fd4d8871
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975 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
976
977JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
2aad5761
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978 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
979 specify a port-range.
fd4d8871 980
23763898
JH
981JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
982 timeout value per server.
983
2ad78978
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984JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
985 now have the list separator specified.
986
8a512ed5 987JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
cfab9d68 988 option values.
8a512ed5 989
82c0c8ea 990JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
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991 under OpenSSL.
992
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993JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
994
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995JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
996 rather than the verbs used.
997
b980ed83
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998JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
999 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1000
6c9ed72e
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1001JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1002
cfab9d68 1003HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
99c1bb4e 1004 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
50dc7409 1005
f846c8f5
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1006JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1007 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1008
fd4c285c
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1009HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1010 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1011
4c04137d 1012JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
fd7f7910 1013
d2a2c69b
JH
1014JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1015
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1016JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1017 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
4c04137d 1018 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
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1019 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1020
1f12df4d
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1021JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1022
1f155f8e
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1023JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1024 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1025
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1026JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1027 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1028
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1029JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1030
474f71bf
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1031JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1032
7137ca4b
JH
1033JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1034
dcb1095c
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1035JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1036 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1037
2f460950
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1038JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1039 added for tls authenticator.
1040
2f680c0c
HSHR
1041HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1042
9c695f6d 1043
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1044Exim version 4.85
1045-----------------
4c57a40e 1046
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1047TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1048 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1049 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1050 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1051 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1052 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1053 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1054
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1055TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1056 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1057 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1058 function when detected.
1059
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1060JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1061 cause callback expansion.
1062
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1063TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1064 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1065 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1066 instead of bool when processing it.
1067
0f06b4f2 1068JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
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1069 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1070
be36e572
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1071JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1072
ac4ef9bd
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1073JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1074
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1075TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1076
c713ca4b
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1077TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1078 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
e449c3b0 1079
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1080JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1081 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1082 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1083 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
4c04137d 1084 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
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1085 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1086
8bc732e8
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1087JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1088 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1089 exceeded it.
1090
a7fec7a7
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1091JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1092 version 3.3.6 or later.
1093
4c04137d 1094JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
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1095 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1096 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
aec45841 1097 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
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1098 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1099 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1100 option is defined.
774ef2d7 1101
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1102TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1103 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1104
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1105JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1106 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1107 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1108 matches.
1109
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1110JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1111 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1112 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1113
ad4c5ff9
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1114JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1115 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
8dea5edf
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1116
1117JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1118 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1119 syntax errors.
1120
3394b36a 1121JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
8dea5edf
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1122
1123JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1124 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1125
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1126TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1127 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1128 tarball.
1129
ad4c5ff9
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1130JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1131
4c04137d 1132JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
ad4c5ff9
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1133 Bug 1561.
1134
1135JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1136 output list separator was used.
1137
8bc732e8 1138
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1141TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1142 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1143 return.
1f0ebb98 1144
a612424f 1145JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
4c04137d 1146 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
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1147
1148JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1149
1150TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
a9b8ec8b 1151 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
a612424f 1152
1f0ebb98 1153
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1156
1157TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1158
1159 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1160 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1161 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1162 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1163 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1164 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1165
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1166TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1167 utilities have not been installed.
1168
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1169JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1170 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1171
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1172TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1173 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1174
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1175TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1176 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
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1177 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1178 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
a3c86431 1179
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JH
1180JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1181
5a1b8443
WB
1182TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1183 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1184
72c9e342
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1185PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1186 not dns_use_dnssec.
1187
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1188JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1189
770747fd
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1190TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1191 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1192 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1193
8ddef691 1194TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
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1195 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1196 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1197 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1198 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
8ddef691 1199 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
c0e56233 1200
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1201JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1202
e45a1c37
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1203JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1204 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1205
67d81c10
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1206JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1207 failed delivery.
1208
b1f8e4f8
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1209JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1210
511a6c14 1211JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
511a6c14
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1212
1213JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1214 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
214042d2 1215
51c7471d
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1216JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1217 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1218
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1219TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1220
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1221JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1222
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1223JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1224 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1225
1226 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1227 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1228 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1229
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1230TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1231 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1232 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1233 analysis.
b1f8e4f8 1234
35aba663
JH
1235JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1236
8c51eead 1237JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
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1238 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1239 lookup).
8c51eead 1240
deae092e
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1241TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1242 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1243 Schlichting.
35aba663 1244
fd3b6a4a 1245JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
4e0983dc 1246 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
fd3b6a4a 1247
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1248TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1249 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1250
2b4a568d
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1251JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1252
d2af03f4
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1253TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1254 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1255 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1256
9d1c15ef
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1257JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1258 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1259
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1260JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1261 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
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1262 hosts_request_ocsp.
1263
ed3bba5f 1264JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
6a8a60e0 1265 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
9ef9101c 1266 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
44662487 1267
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1268JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1269
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1270TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1271 Christian Aistleitner.
1272
f2de3a33
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1273JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1274
6eb02f88
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1275TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1276 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1277
00bff6f6
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1278JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1279 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1280
071c51f7
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1281JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1282 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1283
a6d4c44e
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1284TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1285 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1286
3ae173e7
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1287TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1288 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1289
c13d09b8
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1290TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1291 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1292 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1293
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1294JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1295
66be95e0
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1296PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1297 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1298 Jasper Wallace.
1299
1bd0d12b
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1300JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1301
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1302TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1303 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1304 CVE-2014-2972
1305
fd3b6a4a 1306
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1309
1310PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1311
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1312PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1313 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1314
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1315PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1316 by GnuTLS.
1317
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1318PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1319 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1320 routines.
1321
13363eba 1322PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
36a3ae5f 1323
66645890 1324PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
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1325 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1326 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1327 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1328 using channel bindings instead).
66645890 1329
a3fb9793 1330PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
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1331 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1332 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1333 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
a3fb9793 1334 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
f4ee74ac 1335 Bugzilla 1117.
a3fb9793 1336
d27f98fe 1337TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
98a90c36 1338
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1339TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1340
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1341TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1342 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1343
ae0e32ee 1344TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
ca0ff207 1345 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
97f42f10 1346 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
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1347
1348TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
ae0e32ee 1349
e2658fff
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1350TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1351
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1352TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1353 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1354
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1355JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1356
be4a1376
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1357JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1358
ec4b68e5
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1359PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1360
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1361NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1362 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
ec4b68e5 1363
585121e2 1364JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
ec4b68e5 1365
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1366PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1367 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1368 function.
a5f239e4 1369
13d08c90
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1370PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1371 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1372
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1373JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1374 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1375 "acl = name arg..."
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1377JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1378
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1379JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1380
ea722490 1381JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
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1382 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1383
b1b05573
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1384JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1385 Bugzilla 884.
1386
362145b5
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1387JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1388 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1389
3c0a92dc
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1390JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1391 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1392
6d7c6175
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1393PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1394 CVE-2012-5671
e78e6ecf 1395 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
6d7c6175 1396
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1397JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1398 authenticators.
1399
c8e2fc1e
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1400JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1401 for control.
1402
005ac57f
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1403PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1404
3f1df0e3
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1405PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1406 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1407 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1408 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1409
67bd1ab3
TF
1410TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1411
1412 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1413 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1414 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1415 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1416 the retry rules.
1417
1418 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1419 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1420 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1421
1422 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1423 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1424 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1425 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1426
1ddeb334
TF
1427 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1428 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1429 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1430 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1431 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1432 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1433 delivery, as in LMTP.
67bd1ab3
TF
1434
1435 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1436 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
1437
326cdc37
TF
1438TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
1439
1440 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
1441
1442 Resent-From: f
1443
1444 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
1445 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
1446 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
1447 username as equal to the username.
1448
1449 This change corrects that bug.
1450
f62514b3
GF
1451GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
1452 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
1453 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
1454
eb505532
TF
1455TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
1456
14c7b357
PP
1457PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
1458 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
1459 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
1460 NULL dereference and crash.
1461
94eaf700
PP
1462JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
1463
6f5a440a
PP
1464PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
1465 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
1466 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
1467
514ee161
SC
1468SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
1469
fd98a5c6
JH
1470JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
1471 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
1472 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
1473 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
1474 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
1475 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
1476 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
4c04137d 1477 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
fd98a5c6
JH
1478 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
1479 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
1480 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
1481
035c7f1e
PP
1482PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
1483 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
1484
ff284120
PP
1485PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
1486 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
1487 Bugzilla 880.
1488
26e72755
PP
1489PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
1490 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
1491 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
1492 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
1493 an empty string is now equivalent.
1494
0fbd9bff
PP
1495PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
1496 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
1497 not performing validation itself.
1498
700d22f3
PP
1499PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
1500 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
1501
fcc8e047
JH
1502JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
1503 Bugzilla 321, 823.
1504
4c04137d 1505TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
7142daca 1506
8c020188
PP
1507PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
1508 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
1509 other false fix of the same issue.
1510 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
1511 Bugzilla 1363.
1512
d13cdd30
PP
1513PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
1514 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
1515
e2fbf4a2
PP
1516PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
1517 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
1518 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
1519
f4c1088b
PP
1520PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
1521 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
1522 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
1523
c5c2182f
PP
1524TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
1525
73431ca9
JH
1526JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
1527
2d07a215
TL
1528TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
1529 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
1530
a30a8861
TL
1531TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
1532 Alexander Miroch.
1533
33382dd9
TL
1534TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
1535 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
1536 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
1537 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
1538 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
6d7c6175 1539
046172e6
TL
1540TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
1541 the src/util/ subdirectory.
1542
581d7bee 1543TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
1a7b746d 1544 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
9bdd29ad
TL
1545 EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA.
1546
1547TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
1548 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
1549 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
1550 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
1551
237b2cf2
TL
1552TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
1553
9fc5a352
TL
1554TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
1555 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
1556 from multiple comments on this bug.
1a7b746d 1557
b10e4ec2
TL
1558TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
1559
e2cebd74
TL
1560TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
1561 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
1562 interaction.
1563
1564TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
1565 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
1566
2519e60d
TL
1567TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
1568 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
1569
e78e6ecf 1570
4263f395
PP
1571Exim version 4.80.1
1572-------------------
1573
1574PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1575 CVE-2012-5671
2c422e6f 1576 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
3c0a92dc 1577
ea722490 1578
b1770b6e 1579Exim version 4.80
0599f9cf
PP
1580-----------------
1581
1582PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
1583 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
1584 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
1585
23c7e742
NM
1586NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
1587
b322aac8
NM
1588NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
1589 improved.
1590
4a891427
NM
1591NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
1592
c1e794ba 1593PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1594
97753960
PP
1595PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
1596
1597PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
1598 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
1599
df6303fa
PP
1600PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
1601 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
1602
7e6a8985
PP
1603PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
1604 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
1605
f1e05cc7 1606PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
20aa9dbd
PP
1607 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
1608 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 1609
4c287009
PP
1610PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
1611
b98bb9ac
PP
1612PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
1613 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
1614
4a6a987a
PP
1615PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
1616
c45dd180 1617PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 1618
7db8d074
PP
1619PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
1620 non-compliant senders.
1621 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
1622
eae0036b 1623NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
cfab9d68 1624 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
e0df1c83
DM
1625 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
1626
dec5017e
PP
1627PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
1628 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
1629 in spool file corruption.
1630
c80c5570
PP
1631PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
1632 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
1633 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
1634 "Got SSL error 2".
1635
076b11e2
PP
1636TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
1637 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
1638 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1639
5407bfff
JH
1640JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
1641 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
1642
9e45c72b
PP
1643JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
1644
e74376d8
PP
1645PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
1646 diagnostics.
1647 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
1648
4c04137d 1649PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
da3ad30d
PP
1650 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
1651 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
1652
7be682ca
PP
1653PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
1654 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
3f0945ff
PP
1655 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
1656 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
7be682ca 1657
ef840681
PP
1658PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
1659 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
1660
5bfb4cdf
PP
1661PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
1662 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
1663 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
1664 resolver implementation change.
1665
c6e95d22
PP
1666PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
1667 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
1668
9cbad13b
PP
1669PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
1670
9ee44efb
PP
1671PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
1672
6a6084f8
PP
1673PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
1674 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
1675
12dd53c7
PP
1676PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
1677 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
1678
9e45c72b 1679JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
97d17305
JH
1680 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
1681
17c76198
PP
1682PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
1683 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
1684 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
1685 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
af3498d6 1686 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
17c76198 1687
53947857 1688PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
3f7eeb86 1689
eae0036b 1690PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
8ee4b30e
PP
1691 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
1692 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
eae0036b 1693
9e45c72b 1694JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2605c55b 1695
7390e768
PP
1696PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
1697 read-only, out of scope).
1698 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
1699
08488c86
PP
1700PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
1701 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
1702 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
1703 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
1704
6475bd82
PP
1705PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
1706
81f91683
PP
1707PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
1708 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
1709 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
1710 real issues in debug logging.
1711
5779e6aa
PP
1712PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
1713 assignment on my part. Fixed.
1714
3375e053
PP
1715PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
1716 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
1717 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
1718
1719PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
1720 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
78e0c7a3
PP
1721 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
1722 problems.
3375e053 1723
9d26b8c0
PP
1724PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
1725 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
1726
57eb9e91 1727PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
b87a6e0e
PP
1728 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
1729 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
1730 needs to override this, it can.
1731
16880d1a
PP
1732PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
1733 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
1734 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1735
a799883d
PP
1736PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
1737 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
1738 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
1739 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
1740
3ecab157 1741PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
f0f5a555 1742
0599f9cf 1743
867fcbf5
PP
1744Exim version 4.77
1745-----------------
1746
1747PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
1748 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
1749
f1a29782
TF
1750TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
1751
ab42bd23
TK
1752TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
1753 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 1754
0ca0cf52
TF
1755TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
1756 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
1757
921b12ca
TF
1758TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
1759 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
1760 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
1761
1762 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
1763 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
1764 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
1765 not safe for signals.
1766
1767 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
1768 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
1769 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
1770 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
1771 exiwhat.
1772
c99ce5c9
TF
1773TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
1774
1775 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
1776 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
1777 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
1778 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
4c04137d 1779 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
c99ce5c9
TF
1780
1781 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
1782 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
1783 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
1784 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
1785 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
1786 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
1787
1788 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
1789 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
1790 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
1791 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
1792
1793 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
1794 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
1795 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
1796 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
1797
1798 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
1799 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
1800 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
1801 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
1802 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
1803 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
1804 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
1805 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
1806 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
1807
1808 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
1809 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
1810 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
1811 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
1812
1813 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
1814 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
1815 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
1816 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
1817 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
1818 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
1819 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
1820 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
1821 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
1822 details in the main documentation.
1823
3634fc25
TF
1824TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
1825
792e8a19
TF
1826TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
1827
5901f0ab
TF
1828TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
1829 repository when doing development or release builds.
1830
7f2a2a43
PP
1831PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
1832 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 1833
061b7ebd
PP
1834PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
1835 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
1836 Bugzilla 97.
1837
e12f8c32
PP
1838PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
1839
9e949f00 1840PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
7f2a2a43
PP
1841 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
1842
1843PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
1844 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 1845
555ae6af 1846PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
ac53fcda
PP
1847 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1848
1849PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
1850 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 1851
6f7fe114
PP
1852PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
1853 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1854
c566dd90
PP
1855PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
1856 Bugzilla 1156.
89f897c3
PP
1857 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
1858 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 1859
d6cc7c78 1860PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
39257585
PP
1861 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
1862 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
1863
0d0e4455
PP
1864PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
1865
3399bb60 1866PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
d690cbdc
PP
1867
1868PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
1869 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
1870
0ca0cf52 1871
10906672
PP
1872Exim version 4.76
1873-----------------
1874
1875PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
1876
754a0503
PP
1877PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
1878 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
1879
c0c7b2da
PP
1880PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
1881
e97d1f08
PP
1882PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
1883
084c1d8c
PP
1884PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
1885 Bugzilla 1098.
1886
4e7ee012
PP
1887PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
1888 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 1889
c8d52a00
PP
1890TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
1891 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
1892
54e7ce4a
PP
1893PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
1894 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
1895
5ee6f336
PP
1896PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
1897 Bugzilla 1104.
1898
c8d52a00 1899TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
6ea4a851
PP
1900 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
1901
1902TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
1903 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
1904 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
1905 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
1906
1907PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
1908 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 1909
10906672 1910
aa097c4c
NM
1911Exim version 4.75
1912-----------------
1913
4c04137d 1914NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
aa097c4c
NM
1915 Bugzilla 1073
1916
7f3d9eff
TF
1917TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
1918 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
1919 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
1920
159f52d2
TF
1921TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
1922 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
1923
0cc9542a
PP
1924PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
1925 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
1926 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
1927
f7274286
PP
1928PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
1929 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
1930
7b797365
PP
1931PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
1932 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
1933
caacae52
NM
1934NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
1935 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
1936
09dcaba9
NM
1937NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
1938 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
1939
bc19a55b
PP
1940PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
1941 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 1942
bd4c9759
NM
1943NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
1944 Fixes bug 943.
1945
b72aab72
PP
1946PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
1947 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
1948
2fe76745
PP
1949PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
1950 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
1951
76aa570c
PP
1952PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
1953 SQL string expansion failure details.
1954 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
1955
f1e5fef5
PP
1956PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
1957 Patch from Simon Arlott.
1958
4d805ee9
PP
1959PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
1960 extern declarations in function scope.
1961 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
1962
cd59ab18
PP
1963PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
1964 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
1965 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
1966 a kernel bug).
1967
332f5cf3
PP
1968PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
1969 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1970
29cfeb94
PP
1971PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
1972 Patch from Mark Zealey.
1973
660242ad
PP
1974PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
1975 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
1976
bc4bc4c5
PP
1977PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
1978 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
1979
2e64baa9
NM
1980NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
1981 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
1982 Dennis Davis.
1983
4c04137d 1984PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
bddd7526 1985
6bac1a9a
PP
1986PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
1987
552193f0
NM
1988NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
1989 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 1990
1b587e48
TF
1991TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
1992 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
1993
aa097c4c 1994
8c07b69f
TF
1995Exim version 4.74
1996-----------------
1997
1998TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
1999 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2000
c0ea85ab
TF
2001TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2002 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2003
0761d44e
TF
2004TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2005
0a349494
PP
2006DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2007 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2008 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2009
2010PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2011 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2012 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2013
fea24b2e
PP
2014PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2015 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2016 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2017 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2018
6545de78
PP
2019PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2020 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2021 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2022 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2023
1670ef10
PP
2024PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2025 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2026 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2027 arbitrary files.
2028
c0886197
PP
2029PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2030 (Wolfgang Breyha)
2031
b7487bce
PP
2032PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2033 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2034 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2035 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2036 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2037
8c07b69f 2038
97fd1e48 2039Exim version 4.73
ed7f7860 2040-----------------
97fd1e48
PP
2041
2042PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2043 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2044 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2045
6901c596
PP
2046PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2047 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2048
a8c8d6b5
JJ
2049JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2050
77bb000f
PP
2051PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2052
a29e5231
PP
2053PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2054
ec5a0394 2055PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 2056
55c75993
PP
2057PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2058
453a6645 2059PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
ec5a0394
PP
2060 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2061 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
453a6645
PP
2062 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2063
8544e77a
PP
2064PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2065 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2066 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
3346ab01
PP
2067 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2068 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 2069
83e029d5
PP
2070PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2071
ed7f7860
PP
2072PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2073
7d9f747b
PP
2074PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2075
4b2241d2
PP
2076PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2077
10385c15
PP
2078PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2079
dbc4b90d
PP
2080PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2081
532be449
PP
2082PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2083
6a8de854 2084PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
71265ae9
PP
2085 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2086 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 2087
5dc43717
JJ
2088JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2089
2090JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2091 "exim" to be used
55c75993 2092
3346ab01
PP
2093PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2094 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2095
491fab4c
PP
2096PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2097 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2098 Notification from John Horne.
2099
13eb9497
PP
2100PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2101 compatible.
2102
2103PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2104 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2105 it normally works.
2106
7f36d675
DW
2107DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2108 access.
2109
c1d94452
DW
2110DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2111 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2112 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2113
e2f5dc15
DW
2114DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2115 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2116 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2117 configuration file.
2118
cd25e41d
DW
2119DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2120 option (effectively making it always true).
2121
261dc43e
DW
2122DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2123 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2124
fa32850b
DW
2125DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2126 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2127
79d4bc3d
PP
2128PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2129 run-time user, instead of root.
2130
43236f35 2131PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2cfd3221
PP
2132 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2133
fb08281f
DW
2134DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2135 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2136 arguments.
3346ab01 2137
74935b98
DW
2138DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2139 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2140 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2141
90b6341f
DW
2142DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2143
57730b52
ML
2144NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2145
66581d1e 2146
465e92cf
JJ
2147Exim version 4.72
2148-----------------
2149
453a6645
PP
2150JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2151 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2152 typos
465e92cf 2153
453a6645
PP
2154JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2155 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2156 (Finput)
edae0343 2157
9bd3e22c
NM
2158NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2159 Patch from Alain Williams
2160
bb576ff7
NM
2161NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2162
5a1a5845
NM
2163NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2164 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2165
981a9fad
NM
2166NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2167 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2168
7fc497ee
NM
2169NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2170
1a41defa
JJ
2171JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2172
a466095c 2173NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 2174 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 2175
94a6bd0b
NM
2176TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2177
2178TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2179
2180MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2181 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2182 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2183
c1b141a8
NM
2184NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2185 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 2186
b26eacf1 2187NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
0d0c6357
NM
2188 Patch by Simon Arlott
2189
179c5980 2190PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 2191 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 2192
9bd3e22c 2193
7c6d71af
NM
2194Exim version 4.71
2195-----------------
2196
7d9f747b 2197TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 2198
f013fb92
NM
2199NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2200
0eb8eedd
NM
2201NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2202
663ee6d9
NM
2203NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2204
177ebd9b
NM
2205NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2206
7c6d71af 2207
210f147e
NM
2208Exim version 4.70
2209-----------------
2210
cdd3bb85 2211TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 2212 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
cdd3bb85
TK
2213
2214TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2215 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 2216 Hirsch).
cdd3bb85
TK
2217
2218TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2219 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 2220 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
cdd3bb85
TK
2221
2222TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2223 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2224
210f147e
NM
2225NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2226 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2227 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2228 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2229
deafd5b3
NM
2230NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2231 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 2232 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 2233
089793a4
TF
2234TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2235
5f16ca82
TF
2236TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2237
dae9d94e 2238NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 2239 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 2240
7d9f747b 2241NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 2242
06864c44
TF
2243TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2244 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2245 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2246 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2247
65a7d8c3 2248NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 2249 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 2250
23510047 2251TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 2252
7d9f747b 2253NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 2254
7d8eec3a 2255NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 2256 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 2257
89dec7b6
TF
2258TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2259 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 2260
a99de90c
TF
2261TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2262 that they are available at delivery time.
2263
e2803e40
TF
2264TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2265
7199e1ee
TF
2266TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2267 incoming_port log selectors.
2268
e276e04b
TF
2269TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2270 setting expands to an empty string.
2271
ce552449 2272NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 2273 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 2274
e765a0f1 2275NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 2276 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 2277
4f054c63 2278NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 2279 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 2280
7d9f747b
PP
2281NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2282 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 2283
7d9f747b
PP
2284NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2285 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 2286
b52bc06e 2287NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 2288 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 2289
447de4b0
NM
2290NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2291
4c69d561 2292NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 2293 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 2294
d5c39246 2295NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 2296 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 2297
0b23848a
TK
2298TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2299
8f3414a1 2300NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 2301 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 2302
fb6f955d
NM
2303NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2304
2305NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 2306
7d9f747b
PP
2307NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2308 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 2309
7d9f747b
PP
2310NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2311 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 2312
7d9f747b
PP
2313NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2314 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 2315
7d9f747b
PP
2316NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2317 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 2318
7d9f747b
PP
2319NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2320 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 2321
7d9f747b
PP
2322NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2323 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 2324
7d9f747b
PP
2325NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2326 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 2327
7d9f747b 2328NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 2329 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 2330
7d9f747b 2331NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 2332
7d9f747b
PP
2333NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2334 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 2335
7d9f747b 2336NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 2337
7d9f747b 2338NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 2339
7d9f747b 2340NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 2341
7d9f747b 2342NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 2343
17792b53 2344NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 2345 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 2346
7d9f747b
PP
2347NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2348 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 2349
91576cec 2350NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
7d9f747b 2351 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 2352
7d9f747b
PP
2353NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2354 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 2355
7d9f747b 2356NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 2357
7d9f747b 2358NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 2359
7d9f747b 2360NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 2361
7d9f747b 2362NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 2363
deafd5b3 2364
47db1125
NM
2365Exim version 4.69
2366-----------------
2367
4b3504d0
TK
2368TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2369 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2370 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2371
2372 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2373 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2374 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2375 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2376 build errors in sieve.c.
2377
81ea09ca
NM
2378NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2379 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2380 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2381
f13cddcb
SC
2382SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2383
7d9f747b 2384NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 2385
7d9f747b 2386NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 2387
7d9f747b 2388NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
47db1125
NM
2389
2390
eb4c0de6
PH
2391Exim version 4.68
2392-----------------
2393
2394PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2395
6a3bceb1
PH
2396PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2397 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2398 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2399 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2400 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2401 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2402 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2403 for iplsearch lookups.
2404
2405 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2406 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2407 previously such lookups could never work.
2408
4c04137d 2409 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
6a3bceb1
PH
2410 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2411 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2412
2e30fa9d
TK
2413TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2414 version.
2415
0806a9c5
MH
2416MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2417 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2418 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2419 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2420 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2421 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2422
ae276964
TK
2423TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2424 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2425
0f2cbd1b
MH
2426MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2427 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2428 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2429 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2430 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2431 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2432
2b85bce7
PH
2433PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2434 local_scan API.
2435
93655c46
PH
2436PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
2437
6c512171
PH
2438PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
2439 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
2440 encrypted.
2441
2442PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
2443 by clients under certain conditions.
2444
aa6dc513
PH
2445PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
2446 "_responses" off the end of the name.
2447
a96603a0
PH
2448PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
2449
8f240103
PH
2450PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
2451 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
2452
2453PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
2454
d677b2f2
PH
2455PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
2456
d52120f2
PH
2457PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
2458
64f2600a
PH
2459PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
2460 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
2461
8669f003
PH
2462PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
2463
a4dc33a8
PH
2464PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
2465 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
2466
d6a60c0f
PH
2467PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2468
8f128379
PH
2469PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
2470
8932dffe
PH
2471PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
2472 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
2473 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
2474 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 2475
ddea74fa 2476PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
48ed62d9
PH
2477 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
2478 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
2479
ddea74fa 2480PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
b7670459
PH
2481 and InterBase are left for another time.)
2482
ddea74fa
PH
2483PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
2484
ce9f225c
PH
2485PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
2486
19897d52
PH
2487PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
2488
bc64a74d
PH
2489PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
2490 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
2491 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
2492
eb4c0de6 2493
b4ed4da0
PH
2494Exim version 4.67
2495-----------------
2496
22ad45c9
MH
2497MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
2498 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
2499 Jan Srzednicki.
2500
b4ed4da0
PH
2501PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
2502 issue a MAIL command.
2503
431b7361
PH
2504PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
2505
2506 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
2507
2508 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
2509 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
2510 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
2511 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
2512 item. This has been fixed.
2513
2514PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
2515 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
2516
83da1223
PH
2517PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
2518 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
2519
54fc8428
PH
2520PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
2521 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
2522 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
2523
34c5e8dd
SC
2524SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
2525
bbe15da8
PH
2526PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
2527 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
2528 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
2529 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
2530 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
2531
0e8a9471
MH
2532MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
2533 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
2534 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
2535
f0872424
PH
2536PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
2537 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
2538 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
2539 the server_setid option was incorrect.
2540
b01dd148
PH
2541PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
2542
6bf342e1
PH
2543PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
2544
273f34d0
PH
2545PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
2546 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
2547 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
2548 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
2549 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
2550
cf8b11a5
PH
2551PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
2552
41c7c167
PH
2553PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
2554 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
2555 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
2556 values).
2557
9c57cbc0
PH
2558PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
2559
f3f065bb
PH
2560PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
2561
047bdd8c
PH
2562PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
2563
0ce9abe6
PH
2564PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
2565
0e22dfd1
PH
2566PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
2567
4c590bd1
PH
2568PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
2569 no_callout_flush is set.
2570
09945f1e
PH
2571PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
2572 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
2573 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
2574 fixed.
2575
c51b8e75
PH
2576PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
2577
e28326d8 2578PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
4c04137d 2579 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
e28326d8
PH
2580 other ACL rejections are.
2581
75b1493f
PH
2582PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
2583 with slight modification.
2584
7c5214ec
PH
2585PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
2586 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
2587
4311097e
PH
2588PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
2589 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
2590 connection.
2591
29f89cad
PH
2592PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
2593 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
2594
5e687460
SC
2595SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
2596
c3611384
PH
2597PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
2598 expansion side effects.
2599
5a11a7b4
PH
2600PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
2601 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
2602 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
2603 be the same.
2604
0e20aff9
MH
2605MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
2606 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
2607 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
2608
ca86f471
PH
2609PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
2610 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
2611 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
2612 were accidentally chopped off.
2613
a14e5636
PH
2614PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
2615 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
2616 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
2617 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
2618 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
2619 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
2620 pipelining has not been advertised.
2621
ec95d1a6
PH
2622PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
2623
42855d71
PH
2624PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
2625 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
2626 This has been fixed.
2627
57c2c631
PH
2628PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
2629 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
2630 reported on Solaris.
2631
58c01c94
PH
2632PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
2633 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
2634 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
2635 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
2636 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
2637 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
2638 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
2639
dee5a20a
PH
2640PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
2641 cpus.
2642
d2ee6114
PH
2643PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
2644
b2d5182b
PH
2645PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
2646
79749a79
PH
2647PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
2648 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3ce62588
PH
2649 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
2650 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
2651 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
2652 criteria to be more general.
79749a79 2653
c456d9bb
PH
2654PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
2655 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
2656 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
2657 host_all_ignored option.
2658
cd9868ec
PH
2659PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
2660 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
2661 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
2662 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
2663 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
2664 is what is supposed to happen).
2665
ebeaf996
PH
2666PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
2667 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
2668 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
2669 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
2670 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
2671 uses the Exim user.
2672
2679d413
PH
2673PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
2674 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
2675 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
2676 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
2677 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
2678 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
2679 users.
2680
84024b72
PH
2681PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2682
8005d38e
SC
2683SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
2684 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
2685 (Jez Hancock).
2686 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
2687 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
2688
3298c6c6
SC
2689SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
2690
a43a27c5
PH
2691PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2692
58eb016e 2693PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
563b63fa
PH
2694 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
2695 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
2696 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
2697 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
2698 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
2699 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
2700 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 2701 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
2702 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
2703 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 2704
b43a74ea
PH
2705PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
2706 advertised in response to EHLO.
2707
b4ed4da0 2708
5dd1517f
PH
2709Exim version 4.66
2710-----------------
2711
2712PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
2713 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
2714
2715 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
2716 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
2717
2718 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
2719 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
2720 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
2721
2722 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
2723 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
2724 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
2725 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
2726 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
2727
2728
93cfa765
TK
2729Exim version 4.65
2730-----------------
2731
2732TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
2733 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
2734 versions. (#438)
2735
d6066548
MH
2736MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
2737 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
2738 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
2739
4362ff0d
PH
2740PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
2741 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
2742 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
2743 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
2744 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
2745 rather than extend the field.
2746
93cfa765 2747
944e9e9c
TF
2748Exim version 4.64
2749-----------------
aa41d2de 2750
21d74bd9
TK
2751TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
2752 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
2753 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
2754 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
2755 these files.
2756
2757TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
2758 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
2759 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
2760
2761TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
2762 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
2763 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
2764
2765TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
2766 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
2767 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
2768 in the field name.
2769
2b1c6e3a
PH
2770PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
2771 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
2772 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
2773 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
2774 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
2775 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
2776 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
2777 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
2778 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
2779 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
2780 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
2781
1f872c80
PH
2782PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
2783 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
2784
2785PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
2786 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
2787 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
2788 ignores EPIPE as well.
2789
d203e649
PH
2790PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
2791 (quoted-printable decoding).
2792
cc2ed8f7 2793PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 2794 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 2795
ddfcd446
PH
2796PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
2797
d45b1de8
PH
2798PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
2799
2800PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
2801
38a0a95f 2802PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 2803 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 2804
a2405d83
JJ
2805JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
2806 in 4.64-PH/09.
2807
2808JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
2809 miscellaneous code fixes
2810
6ea85e9a
PH
2811PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
2812 rejections.
2813
26da7e20
PH
2814PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
2815 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
2816 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
2817 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
2818 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
2819 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
2820 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
2821 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 2822
14aa5a05 2823PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 2824 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
2825 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
2826 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
2827 function.
2828 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
2829 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
2830 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
2831 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
2832 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
2833 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
2834 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
2835 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
2836 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
2837
ff75a1f7
PH
2838PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
2839 decoding.
2840
e6f6568e
PH
2841PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
2842 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
2843 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
2844 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
2845 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
2846 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
2847 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
2848 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
2849
d6f6e0dc
PH
2850PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
2851 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
2852 list.
2853
322050c2
PH
2854PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
2855 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
2856 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
2857 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
2858 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
2859 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
2860 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
2861 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
2862 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
2863 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
2864 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
2865 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
2866 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
2867
08955dd3
PH
2868PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
2869 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
2870 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
2871 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
2872 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
2873 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
2874 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
2875
1eccaa59
PH
2876PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
2877 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
2878 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
2879 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
2880 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
2881 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
2882 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
2883 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
2884 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
2885 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
2886
602e59e5
PH
2887PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
2888 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
2889 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
2890 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
2891 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
2892
411ef850
PH
2893PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
2894 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
2895 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
2896 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
2897 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
2898 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
2899 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
2900
7befa435
PH
2901PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
2902 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
2903 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
2904 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
2905 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
2906 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
2907 been verified.
2908
48da4259 2909PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
2910 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
2911 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
2912 and authorization.)
2913
48da4259
PH
2914PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
2915 if any retry times were supplied.
2916
d1d5595c
PH
2917PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
2918 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
2919 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
2920
0ef732d9
PH
2921PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
2922
328895cc
PH
2923PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
2924
fd700877
PH
2925PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
2926 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
2927 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
2928 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
2929 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
2930 before) are ignored.
fd700877 2931
8dce1a6f
PH
2932PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
2933 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
2934
17af4a17
PH
2935PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
2936 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
2937 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
2938
2939PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
2940 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
2941 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
2942 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
2943 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
2944 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
2945 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
2946 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
2947 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
2948
2949 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
2950 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
2951 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
2952 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
2953 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
2954 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
2955 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
2956 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
2957 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
2958
2959 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
2960 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
2961 hammering the server.
2962
c1114884
PH
2963PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
2964 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
2965
7a0743eb
PH
2966PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
2967
0d85fa3f
PH
2968PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
2969 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
2970 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
2971
1bf43b78
PH
2972PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
2973 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
2974 one case where this was not true.
2975
520de300
PH
2976PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
2977 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
2978 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
2979 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
2980 fails.
2981
48c7f9e2
PH
2982PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
2983 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
2984 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
2985 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
4c04137d 2986 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
48c7f9e2
PH
2987 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
2988 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
2989 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
2990 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
2991 smtp transport.
2992
99ea1c86
PH
2993PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
2994 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
2995 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
2996 same for both kinds of LMTP.
2997
a2042e78
PH
2998PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
2999 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3000
4fbcfc2e
PH
3001PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3002 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3003 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3004
aa41d2de
PH
3005PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3006
af561417
PH
3007PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3008
3cc66b45
PH
3009PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3010
194cc0e4
PH
3011PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3012 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3013 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3014 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3015
a401ddaa
PH
3016PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3017 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3018
4e88a19f
PH
3019PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3020 be meaningful with "accept".
3021
d7d7b289
SC
3022SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3023 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3024
3025SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3026 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3027 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3028
3029SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3030 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3031 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3032 there is data to show.
3033 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3034
3035SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3036 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3037 as well as the number of messages.
3038
3039SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3040 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3041 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3042
3043SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3044 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3045 have a flag are now skipped.
3046
3047SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3048 Added the -emptyok flag.
3049
3050SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3051 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3052
0ea2a468
JJ
3053JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3054 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
4c04137d 3055 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
0ea2a468
JJ
3056
3057JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3058 match 4.64-PH/13
3059
3060JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3061 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3062
3063JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3064
3065JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3066 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3067
8a10f5a4
PH
3068PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3069
30e18802
PH
3070PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3071 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3072 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3073 contravention of the specifications.
3074
55728a4f
PH
3075PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3076 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3077 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 3078
d7837193
PH
3079PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3080 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3081 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3082
87054a31
PH
3083PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3084
ea2c01d2
MH
3085MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3086 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3087 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3088 some point in the past.
3089
e4fa6968
PH
3090PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3091 transport during callout processing was broken.
3092
56f5d9bd
PH
3093PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3094 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3095
922e1c28
PH
3096PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3097 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3098
21eb6e72
PH
3099PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3100 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3101
a0540757
PH
3102PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3103
944e9e9c 3104
478be7b0
SC
3105Exim version 4.63
3106-----------------
3107
3108SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3109 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3110
3111SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3112 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3113 there is data to show.
3114 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3115
3116SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3117 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3118
2b965a65
TF
3119TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3120 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 3121
45b91596
PH
3122TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3123 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 3124
c59f5781
TF
3125TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3126 submissions from trusted users.
3127
90fc3069
TF
3128TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3129 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3130
6083aca0
TF
3131TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3132 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3133 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3134 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3135 there is now a framework to start from.
3136
765b530f
PH
3137PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3138 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3139 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3140
4e167a8c
PH
3141PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3142
4608d683
PH
3143PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3144
b8dc3e4a
PH
3145PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3146
5418e93b
PH
3147PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3148 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3149 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3150
b4a9bda2
PH
3151PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3152 libradius.
3153
45b91596
PH
3154PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3155 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3156 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3157
5547e2c5
PH
3158PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3159 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3160 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3161 its arguments.
3162
dbcef0ea
PH
3163PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3164 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3165 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3166 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3167 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3168
25257489
PH
3169PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3170 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3171
c816d124
PH
3172PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3173
a9ccd69a
PH
3174PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3175 operations in malware.c.
3176
75fa1910
PH
3177PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3178 signatures.
3179
a7d7aa58
PH
3180PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3181 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3182 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3183 all.
3184
42119b09
PH
3185PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3186 statements to "add_header".
3187
41609df5
PH
3188PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3189 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3190
a5bd321b
PH
3191PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3192 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3193 latter.
3194
e85a7ad5 3195PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
3196 so that it is now:
3197
e85a7ad5
PH
3198 ${if or { \
3199 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3200 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3201 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
3202 }{no}{yes}}
3203
e85a7ad5
PH
3204 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3205 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 3206
d8fe1c03
PH
3207PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3208 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3209
16282d2b
PH
3210PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3211 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3212 any possible encoding problems.
3213
35d40a98
PH
3214PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3215 but not after initializing Perl.
3216
034d99ab
PH
3217PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3218 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3219 apparently, which is not desirable.
3220
6ec97b1b
PH
3221PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3222 queries.
3223
e22ca4ac
JJ
3224JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3225 --not options
3226
3227JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3228
33d73e3b
PH
3229PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3230 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3231 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3232 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3233
9ecb03f3
PH
3234PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3235 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3236 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3237
084efe8d
PH
3238PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3239 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3240 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3241 0.12.
3242
366fc9f0
PH
3243PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3244 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3245 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3246 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3247 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3248
c59f5781 3249
c887c79e
TF
3250Exim version 4.62
3251-----------------
3252
3253TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3254 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3255
1cce3af8
PH
3256PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3257 patch).
3258
afb3eaaf
PH
3259PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3260 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3261 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3262 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3263 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3264 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3265 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3266 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3267 451 error is used.
3268
e173618b
PH
3269PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3270
dd16e114
PH
3271PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3272 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3273 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3274
f7fd3850
PH
3275PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3276 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3277 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3278 odd errors.
3279
d87df92c
PH
3280PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3281 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3282
7e9f683d
PH
3283PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3284 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3285 option (which defaults to 0600).
3286
bfad5236
PH
3287PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3288
01c490df
PH
3289PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3290 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3291 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3292 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3293 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3294 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3295 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3296
d6629cdc
PH
3297PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3298
1cce3af8 3299
214e2000
PH
3300Exim version 4.61
3301-----------------
3302
3303PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3304 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3305 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3306 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3307 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3308 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3309 addresses as local.
3310
f9daeae0
PH
3311PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3312 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3313
7e66e54d
PH
3314PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3315
c8ea1597
PH
3316PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3317 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3318 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3319 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3320 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3321 grumble.
3322
911f6fde
PH
3323PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3324 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3325
47ca6d6c
PH
3326PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3327 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3328 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3329 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3330 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3331
ed0e9820
PH
3332PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3333 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3334 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3335 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3336
eff37e47
PH
3337PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3338 be the same on different OS.
3339
1921d2ea
PH
3340PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3341 testing.
3342
b3f69ca8
JJ
3343JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3344 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3345
3346JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3347 in 4.61-PH/06
3348
424a1c63
PH
3349PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3350 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3351 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3352 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3353 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3354 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3355 bounce message.
3356
7a100415
PH
3357PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3358 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3359 when Exim was called.
3360
19b9dc85
PH
3361PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3362 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3363
309bd837
PH
3364PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3365 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3366 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3367 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3368
59e82a2a
PH
3369PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3370 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3371 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3372 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3373 changes:
3374
3375 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3376 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
4c04137d 3377 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
59e82a2a
PH
3378
3379 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3380 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3381 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3382
9edc04ce
PH
3383PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3384 feature).
3385
1349e1e5
PH
3386PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3387 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3388 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3389 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3390 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3391 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3392 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3393 values from the SRV records were lost.
3394
ea49d0e1
PH
3395PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3396 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3397 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3398
064a94c9
PH
3399PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3400 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3401 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3402
727071f8
PH
3403PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3404 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3405 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3406 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3407 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3408 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3409 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3410 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3411 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 3412 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 3413
f78eb7c6
PH
3414PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3415 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3416 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3417
21c28500
PH
3418PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3419 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3420
3421PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3422 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3423 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3424 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3425 is given.
3426
1688f43b
PH
3427PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3428 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3429 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3430
3431PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3432 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3433 PH/23 above applies.
3434
9675b384
PH
3435PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3436 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
3437 (for which there is an explicit test).
3438
6a3f1455
PH
3439PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
3440
dac79d3e
PH
3441PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
3442 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
3443 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
3444 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
3445 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 3446
5977a0b3
PH
3447PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
3448 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
3449 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
3450 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
3451
c91535f3
PH
3452PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
3453 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
3454 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
3455
0d46a8c8
PH
3456PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
3457
278c6e6c
PH
3458PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
3459
2cbb4081
PH
3460PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
3461 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
3462 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
3463
3eef829e
PH
3464PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
3465 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
3466 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
3467 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
3468 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
3469
1ab95fa6
PH
3470PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
3471 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
3472 the message gets confusing).
3473
230205fc
PH
3474PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
3475 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
3476 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
3477 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
3478
75e0e026
PH
3479PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
3480 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
3481 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
3482 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
3483 same order.
3484
3485PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
3486 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
3487 the different processes.
3488
145396a6
PH
3489PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
3490
3cd34f13
PH
3491PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
3492
11121d3d
JJ
3493JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
3494 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
3495
3496JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
3497 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
3498
3499JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
3500 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
3501 messages matching specified criteria.
3502
8def5aaf
PH
3503PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
3504
929ba01c
PH
3505PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
3506 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
3507
2632889e
PH
3508PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
3509 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
3510 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
3511 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
3512 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
3513 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
3514 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
3515 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
3516 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
3517 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
3518
944a9c55
PH
3519PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
3520 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
3521 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
3522
4a23603b
PH
3523PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
3524
4730f942
PH
3525PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
3526 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
3527 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
3528 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
3529 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
3530 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
3531 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
3532 the variable.
3533
30dba1e6
PH
3534PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
3535 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
3536
382afc6b
PH
3537PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
3538
a86229cf
PH
3539PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
3540
50c99ba6
PH
3541PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3542
d35e429d
PH
3543PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
3544 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
3545 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
3546 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
3547 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
3548 size of the count of files.
3549
f90d018c
PH
3550PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
3551
75def545
PH
3552PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
3553 used in LMTP mode:
3554
3555 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
3556 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
3557 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
3558 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
3559
3560 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
3561 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
3562 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
3563
3564PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
3565 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
3566 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
3567 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
3568 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
3569
c46782ef
PH
3570PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
3571 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
3572
71fafd95
PH
3573PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
3574 will now be deprecated.
3575
2c5db4fd
PH
3576PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
3577
9cf6b11a
JJ
3578JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
3579 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
3580 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
3581
3582JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
3583 with very large, slow to parse queues
3584
3585JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
3586
3587JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
3588
898d150f
PH
3589PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
3590 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
3591 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
3592 SMTP output lines.
3593
46218253
PH
3594PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
3595 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
3596 Sieve code now uses this.
3597
e97957bc
PH
3598PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
3599 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
3600
81e509d7
PH
3601PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
3602 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
3603
3d240ff7
PH
3604PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
3605
b37c4101
PH
3606PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
3607 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
3608 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
3609 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
3610 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
3611
79378e0f
PH
3612PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
3613 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
3614 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
3615 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
3616
e49c7bb4
PH
3617PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
3618
d114ec46
PH
3619PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
3620
f3d7df6c
PH
3621PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
3622 is preferred over IPv4.
3623
715ab376
PH
3624PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
3625 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
3626 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
3627 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
3628 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
3629 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
3630 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
3631
6b31b150
PH
3632PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
3633 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
3634 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
3635
3636PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
3637
d515a917
PH
3638PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
3639 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
3640 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
3641 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
3642 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
3643 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
3644 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
3645 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
3646 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
3647 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
3648 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
3649
9b8fadde
PH
3650PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
3651 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
3652 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
3653
214e2000 3654
5de37277
PH
3655Exim version 4.60
3656-----------------
3657
cc38ddbf
PH
3658PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
3659
3660 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
3661 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
3662
3663 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
3664 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
3665 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 3666
72fdd6ae
PH
3667PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
3668
3669 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
3670 not a single digit.
3671
3672 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
3673 string.
3674
3675 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
3676 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
3677 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
3678 silly things.
3679
3680 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
3681 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
3682
3683 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
3684 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 3685
cb741023
PH
3686PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
3687 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
3688 "/bin:/usr/bin".
3689
f174f16e
PH
3690PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
3691 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 3692
c25242d7
PH
3693PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
3694 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
3695
3696 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
3697
3698 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
3699 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
3700 this:
3701
3702 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
3703
82c19f95
PH
3704PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
3705 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
3706 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
3707 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
3708 identical. For example:
3709
3710 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
3711
3712 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
3713 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
3714 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
3715
d7ffbc12
PH
3716PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
3717 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
3718 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
3719 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
3720
9f526266
PH
3721PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
3722 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
3723 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
3724 message.
3725
87fcc8b9
PH
3726PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
3727
3728 o fixes some comments
3729 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
3730 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
3731 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
3732 and documents the missing references header update
3733
3734 and most important:
3735
3736 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4c04137d 3737 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
87fcc8b9
PH
3738 result)
3739
456682f5
PH
3740PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
3741 Electronic Mail") by including:
3742
3743 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
3744
3745 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4c04137d 3746 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
456682f5
PH
3747 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
3748 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
3749 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
3750
3751 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
3752
3753 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
3754
3755 The auto-replied keyword:
3756
3757 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
3758 message by an automatic process,
3759
3760 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
3761
3762 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
3763 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
3764
3765 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
3766 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
3767 other messages.
3768
3e46c1aa
PH
3769PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
3770 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 3771
49826d12
PH
3772PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
3773
eba0c039
PH
3774PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
3775 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
3776 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
3777
a0d6ba8a
PH
3778PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
3779 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
3780 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
3781
f0917727
PH
3782PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
3783 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
3784 and treats the condition as false.
3785
096fee00
PH
3786PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
3787
024bd3c2
PH
3788PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
3789 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
3790 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
3791 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
3792 not changing the active code.
3793
3794 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
3795 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
3796
3797 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
3798 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
3799
df199fec
PH
3800PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
3801 (Bugzilla #53).
3802
d27f1df3
PH
3803PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
3804 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
3805 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
3806 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
3807 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
3808 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
3809 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
3810 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
3811 the text comparison.
3812
96776534
PH
3813PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
3814 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
3815 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
3816 The same fix has been applied.
3817
5de37277 3818
9a799bc0
PH
3819Exim version 4.54
3820-----------------
3821
3822PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
3823 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
3824 It now does.
3825
99a4b039
PH
3826PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
3827 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
3828
3829PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
3830
4b233853
PH
3831PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
3832 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
3833 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
3834 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
3835 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
3836
8857ccfd
PH
3837TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
3838 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
3839 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
3840 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
3841 or /domain=).
3842
433a2980
PH
3843PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
3844 testing suite.
3845
3e46c1aa 3846
9a799bc0 3847
e3a311ba
TK
3848Exim version 4.53
3849-----------------
3850
3851TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
3852 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
3853
13b685f9
PH
3854PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
3855
395ff96d
PH
3856PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
3857
5b68f6e4
PH
3858PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
3859 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
3860 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
3861
1ab52c69
PH
3862PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
3863 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
3864 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
3865
b07e6aa3
PH
3866PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
3867 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
3868 operating systems.
3869
254e032f
PH
3870PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
3871 ${stat: expansion item.
3872
3af76a81
PH
3873PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
3874 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
3875
2548ba04
PH
3876PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
3877 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
3878 file for comments.
3879
b6c6011d
PH
3880PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3881
cf39cf57
PH
3882PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
3883 setting.
3884
f1513293
PH
3885PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
3886 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
3887
727549a4
PH
3888TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
3889
af46795e
PH
3890PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
3891 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
3892 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
3893 the end of the subprocess.
3894
d7b47fd0
PH
3895PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
3896 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
3897 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
3898 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
3899 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
3900
ee744174
JJ
3901JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
3902
b582ab87
PH
3903TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
3904
41a13e0a
PH
3905PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
3906 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
3907
f625cc5a
PH
3908PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
3909
3910PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
3911
21f7af35
PH
3912PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
3913 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
3914 HP-UX compiler.
3915
31480e42
PH
3916PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
3917
2d280592
PH
3918PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
3919 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
3920 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
3921
7cd1141b
PH
3922PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
3923 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
3924
3925PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
3926 host errors such as "Connection refused".
3927
750af86e
PH
3928PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
3929 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
3930
3931 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
3932 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
3933
3934 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
3935 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
3936 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
3937 contributed by a Radius user.
3938
3939PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
3940 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
3941
4304270b
TK
3942TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
3943 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
3944
750af86e
PH
3945PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
3946 available.
3947
64ffc24f
PH
3948PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
3949 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
3950 received.
3951
5dd9625b
PH
3952PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
3953 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
3954 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
3955 header lines when this was not necessary.
3956
5591031b
PH
3957PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
3958
ba18e66a
PH
3959PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
3960 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
3961 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
3962 exists".
3963
9cec981f
PH
3964PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
3965 -bV or -d is used.
3966
aa2b5c79
PH
3967PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
3968 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
3969 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
3970 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 3971
48a53b7f
PH
3972PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
3973
1c59d63b
PH
3974PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
3975
671012da
TK
3976TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
3977
1509d3a8
PH
3978PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
3979
3980PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
3981 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
3982 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
3983 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
3984 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
3985 settings.
3986
3987PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
3988
2fe1a124
PH
3989PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
3990 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
3991 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
3992 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
3993 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
3994 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
3995 which is clearly wrong.
3996
8800895a
PH
3997PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
3998
ccfdb010
PH
3999PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4000 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4001 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4002 subsequently added.
4003
1130bfb0
PH
4004PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4005 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4006
ebcb507f
PH
4007PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4008
c35e155c
PH
4009PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4010 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4011
95d1f782
PH
4012PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4013 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4014
fd6de02e
PH
4015PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4016 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4017
58de37c5
PH
4018PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4019 recipients, not senders.
4020
261cf466
TF
4021TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4022 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4023
3ee512ff
PH
4024PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4025
e08c430f
PH
4026PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4027
bef5a11f
PH
4028PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4029 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4030 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4031 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4032
7546de58
TF
4033TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4034
e5d5a95f
TF
4035TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4036 clock is set back in time.
4037
2e88a017
TF
4038TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4039 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4040
a5f65aa4
TF
4041TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4042 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4043
e7726cbf
PH
4044PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4045 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4046 (see PH/47 above).
4047
a7fdad5b
TF
4048TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4049 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4050 header rewrites.
4051
6af56900
PH
4052PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4053 type ("H").
4054
0925ede6
PH
4055PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4056
66afa403
TF
4057TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4058 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4059 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4060
0154e85a
TF
4061TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4062 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4063 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4064 helo verification defer as a failure.
4065
16f12c76
PH
4066PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4067 actual error message.
4068
bbe902f0 4069
e5a9dba6
PH
4070Exim version 4.52
4071-----------------
4072
4073TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4074
22c3b60b
PH
4075PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4076 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4077 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4078 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4079
06a9b4b5
PH
4080TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4081
c1ac6996
PH
4082PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4083 can still be requested.
4084
9c7a242c
PH
4085PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4086 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4087 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4088 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4089
87ba3f5f
PH
4090TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4091 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4092 circumstances, but probably never did.
4093
4094PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4095 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4096 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4097 in the header line.
4098
29aba418
TF
4099TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4100
fe0dab11
TF
4101TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4102 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 4103
11d337a4
TK
4104TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4105
4106TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4107
415c8f3b
PH
4108PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4109 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4110 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4c04137d 4111 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
415c8f3b
PH
4112 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4113 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 4114
958541e9
PH
4115PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4116 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4117 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4118 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4119 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4120 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4121
c206415f
TK
4122TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4123 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4124
2a4be8f9
PH
4125PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4126 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4127
1cba11c5
SC
4128SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4129 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4130
4c04137d 4131SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
1cba11c5
SC
4132
4133SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4134
4135SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4136
4137SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4138
4139SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4140
4141SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4142
1005d00e
TK
4143TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4144
4145TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4146 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4147 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4148
4149TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4150 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4151 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4152 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4153
9b4768fa
PH
4154PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4155 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4156 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4157
4158PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4159 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4160 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4161 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4162
0d7eb84a
PH
4163PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4164 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4165 to be made).
4166
4167PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4168 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4169 should work with maildirs and everything.
4170
40727bee
TK
4171TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4172 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4173
554d2369
TF
4174TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4175 <jgh@wizmail.org>
4176
1f922db1
PH
4177PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4178 function for BDB 4.3.
4179
ef213c3b
PH
4180PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4181
8ac170f3
PH
4182PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4183 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4184 involved.
4185
b1c749bb
PH
4186PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4187 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4188 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
4189 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4190 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4191 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 4192
4aac9b49
PH
4193PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4194 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4195 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4196 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4197 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4198 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4199 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4200 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4201
294520c8
TK
4202TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4203 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4204 details.
4205
5bd022fe
PH
4206PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4207 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4208
90e9ce59
PH
4209PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4210 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4211 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4212 test. It is now used for both.
4213
5ea81592
PH
4214PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4215 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4216 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4217 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4218 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4219 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4220
c6c2dc1d
PH
4221PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4222 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4223 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4224 string_vformat().
4225
fffffe4c
PH
4226PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4227 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4228 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 4229
9a26b6b2
PH
4230PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4231 experimental DomainKeys support:
4232
4233 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4234 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4235 the control was given.
4236
4237 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4238
4aee0225
PH
4239PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4240
32d668a5
PH
4241PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4242
8187c3f3
PH
4243PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4244 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4245 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4246 db.h files).
4247
ff790e47 4248PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
4249 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4250 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4251 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4252 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4253 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4254 course.
ff790e47 4255
5417f6d1
PH
4256PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4257 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4258 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4259 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4260 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4261 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4262
59cf8544
PH
4263PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4264 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4265 do -d+all out of habit.
4266
e7ad8a65
PH
4267PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4268 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4269 x86_64 Fedora Core.
4270
ade42478
PH
4271PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4272 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4273 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4274 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4275 record types that Exim uses.
4276
182ad5cf
PH
4277PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4278 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4279 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4280 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4281 non-existent file that was broken.
4282
b0d9fc80
TK
4283TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4284 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4285
4286TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4287 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4288 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4289
4290TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4291
47c7a64a
PH
4292PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4293 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4294 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4295 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4296 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4297 same time.
4298
a388bce4
SC
4299SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4300 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4301 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4302 at a slight CPU cost.
4303
4304SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4305 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4306
4307SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4308 by Marc Sherman.
4309
0793e4ed
SC
4310SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4311
c58b88df
PH
4312PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4313 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4314
e7ad8a65 4315
7982096b
PH
4316Exim version 4.51
4317-----------------
4318
1a46a8c5
PH
4319TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4320 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4321
2f079f46 4322TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
4323
4324TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4325
4326PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4327 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4328
4329PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4330 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4331 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4332 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4333 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4334 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4335 file.
4336
4337PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4338 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4339 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4340 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4341 these two options.
4342
4343PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4344 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4345 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4346 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4347 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4348 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4349 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 4350 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
4351
4352PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4353 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4354
4355PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4356 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4357 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4358 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4359 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4360 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4361
4362PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4363 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4364 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4365 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4366
4367PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4368 Finch).
4369
4370PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4371 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 4372
49c2d5ea
PH
4373PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4374 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
4375 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4376 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4377 message.
49c2d5ea 4378
bf759a8b
PH
4379PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4380
83364d30
PH
4381PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4382 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4383
7999bbd7
PH
4384PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4385 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4386 to what was transported.)
4387
7dbf77c9
PH
4388TF/01 Added $received_time.
4389
74e0617f
PH
4390PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4391 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4392 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4393 spamd_address settings.
4394
2f079f46
PH
4395PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4396 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4397 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4398 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4399 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4400
8c841523
PH
4401PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4402
7766a4f0
PH
4403PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4404 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4405 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4406 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4407 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4408
8b417f2c
PH
4409PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4410 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4411
901f42cb
PH
4412PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4413 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4414 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4415 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4416 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4417 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4418 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4419 for failure.
4420
f9b9210e
PH
4421PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4422 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4423 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4424 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4425 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4426 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4427 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4428 "input=".
4429
54cdb463
PH
4430PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4431
cf00dad6
PH
4432PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4433 driver and ACL definitions.
4434
acb1b346
PH
4435PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4436 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
4437
c5ddb310
PH
4438PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
4439 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
4440 understands it better than I do:
4441
4442 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
4443 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
4444
4445 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
4446 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
4447 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
4448 => three warnings about OTP not working
4449 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
4450
4451 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
4452 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
4453 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
4454 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
4455 for each call.)
4456 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
4457 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
4458
4459 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
4460 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
4461 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
4462
31619da6
PH
4463PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
4464 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
4465 specified.
4466
bebaf0fc
PH
4467PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
4468 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
4469 "Linux".
4470
475fe28a
PH
4471PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
4472 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
4473 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
4474
4475 warn !verify = sender
4476 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
4477
4478 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
4479 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
4480
7e8bec7a
PH
4481PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
4482
4483 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
4484 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
4485
4486 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
4487 nomenclature these days.)
4488
e4a89c47
PH
4489PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
4490 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
4491
5ca2a9a1
PH
4492PH/30 In these circumstances:
4493 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
4494 . First host does not offer TLS;
4495 . First host accepts first address;
4496 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
4497 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
4498 . Second host accepts second address.
4499 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
4500 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
4501 address.
7e8bec7a 4502
c688b954
PH
4503PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
4504 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
4505 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
4506 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
4507 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
4508
fed77020
PH
4509PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
4510 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
4511
7fe1560f
PH
4512PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
4513 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 4514
ebb6e6d5
PH
4515PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
4516 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
4517 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
4518
9c4e8f60
PH
4519PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
4520 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
4521 overlooked.
4522
4523PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
4524
d7174846
PH
4525PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
4526 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
4527 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
4528 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
4529 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
4530 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
4531 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
4532
4533 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
4534 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
4535 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
4536 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
4537 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
4538
4539 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
4540 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
4541 routed further.
4542
cfe75fc3
PH
4543PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
4544 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
4545 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
4546 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
4547 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
4548 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
4549
be22d70e
PH
4550PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
4551
0612b098
PH
4552PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
4553 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
4554 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
4555 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
4556 printable escape sequences.
4557
2e0c1448
PH
4558PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
4559 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
4560 body only.
4561
447d236c
PH
4562PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
4563 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
4564 are as follows:
4565
4566 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
4567 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
4568 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
4569 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
4570 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
4571
4572 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
4573 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
4574 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
4575
d20976dc
PH
4576PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
4577
f656d135
PH
4578PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
4579 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
4580 play with."
4581
2e2a30b4
PH
4582PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
4583 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
4584 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
4585 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
4586 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
4587 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
4588 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
4589 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
4590 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
4591 the log output.
4592
9176e9f0
PH
4593PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
4594 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
4595 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
4596 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
4597 "make".
4598
7982096b 4599
bbe902f0
PH
4600A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
4601----------------------------------------
4602
4603Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
4604changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
4605needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
4606in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
4607that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
4608release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
4609from 4.43.
4610
4611I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
46124.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
4613those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
4614historical information.
4615
4616
f7b63901 4617Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
4618-----------------
4619
5fe762f6
PH
4620 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
4621
139059f6 4622 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 4623 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 4624
7086e875
PH
4625 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
4626 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
4627 place.
4628
35af9f61
PH
4629 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
4630 filter fails to execute.
4631
b668c215
PH
4632 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
4633 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
4634 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
4635 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
4636 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
4637
a494b1e1
PH
4638 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
4639
4640 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
4641 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
4642 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
4643 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 4644
c5fcb476
PH
4645 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
4646 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
4647 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
4648 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
4649 control that does not make sense is encountered.
4650
69358f02
PH
4651 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
4652
5be20824
PH
465310. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
4654
eb2c0248
PH
465511. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
4656 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
4657 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
4658 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
4659
2a3eea10
PH
466012. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
4661 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
4662 sender verification.
4663
466413. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
4665 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
4666
23c7ff99
PH
466714. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
4668
4deaf07d
PH
466915. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
4670 connection timeout.
4671
926e1192
PH
467216. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
4673 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
4674
650edc6f
PH
467517. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
4676 the spool by the -Mrm option.
4677
2c7db3f5
PH
467818. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
4679 information about exactly what failed.
4680
3d235903
PH
468119. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
4682
7c7ad977
PH
468320. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
4684 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
4685 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
4686
981756db
PH
468721. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
4688 It is now set to "smtps".
4689
d4eb88df
PH
469022. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
4691 ignore_target_hosts.
4692
469323. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
4694 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
4695 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
4696 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
4697 "[x.x.x.x]".
4698
7d468ab8
PH
469924. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
4700 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
4701 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
4702
470325. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
4704 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
4705 wake it up if nothing else does.
4706
62c0818f
PH
470726. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
4708 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
4709 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
4710 end up negative.
4711
26034054
PH
471227. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
4713 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
4714
af66f652
PH
471528. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
4716
90af77f4
PH
471729. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
4718 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
4719 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
4720 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
4721 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
4722 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
4723 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
4724 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
4725
d8ef3577
PH
472630. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
4727 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
4728 than one IP address.
4729
5cb8cbc6
PH
473031. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
4731 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
4732 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
4733 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
4734
14702f5b
PH
473532. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
4736 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
4737 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
4738 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
4739 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
4740 1024 to 2048 bytes.
4741
063b1e99
PH
474233. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
4743 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
4744 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
4745 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
4746
652e1b65
PH
474734. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
4748 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
4749 respected.
4750
6f0c9a4f
PH
475135. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
4752 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
4753 $sender_host_address.
4754
33397d19
PH
475536. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
4756 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
4757 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
4758 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
4759 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
4760 very small.
4761
7bb56e1f
PH
476237. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
4763
4764 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
4765 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
4766
ea3bc19b
PH
4767 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
4768 just the host names, not the priorities.
4769
4770 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
4771 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
4772 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 4773
ea3bc19b 4774 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 4775 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 4776
0bcb2a0e
PH
477738. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
4778 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
4779 domain.
4780
2ac0e484
PH
478139. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
4782
4e1fde53
PH
478340. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
4784 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
4785
de365ded
PH
478641. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
4787 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
4788 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
4789
f05da2e8
PH
479042. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
4791
d6453af2
PH
479243. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
4793
f7b63901
PH
479444. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
4795
479645. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
4797 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
4798 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
4799 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
4800 because the tests only now provoked it.
4801
a444213a
PH
480246. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
4803 (this can affect the format of dates).
4804
0ec020ea
PH
480547. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
4806 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
4807 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
4808 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
4809
b1206957
PH
481048. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
4811
481249. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
4813 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
4814 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
4815 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
4816
26dd5a95
PH
481750. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
4818 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
4819 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
4820
343b2385
PH
482151. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
4822 autoreply.
4823
1c5466b9
PH
482452. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
4825 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
4826 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
4827 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
4828 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
4829 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
4830 is going on).
4831
55ee9ee3
PH
483253. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
4833 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
4834 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
4835 the line.
4836
d38f8232
PH
483754. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
4838 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
4839 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
4840
4841 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
4842 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
4843 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
4844 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
4845 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
4846 so I produce this patch..."
4847
3295e65b
PH
4848 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
4849 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
4850 is not defined.
4851
7102e136
PH
485255. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
4853 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
4854 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
4855 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 4856 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 4857
3ca0ba97
PH
485856. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
4859
c2bcbe20
PH
486057. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
4861 long debug lines gets shown.
4862
18ce445d
PH
486358. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
4864 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
4865
1f5b4c3d
PH
486659. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
4867
4868 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
4869 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
4870 of $primary_hostname.
4871
b975ba52
PH
487260. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
4873 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
4874 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
4875 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
4876 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
4877 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
4878 by change 4.50/55 above.
4879
4880 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
4881 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
4882 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
4883 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
4884 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
4885 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 4886 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
4887
488861. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
4889 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
4890 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 4891 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 4892
17ffcae7
PH
489362. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
4894 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
4895
d95f9fdb
PH
489663. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
4897 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
4898 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
4899 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
4900 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4901
86b8287f
PH
490264. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
4903 This has been fixed.
4904
60dc5e56
PH
490565. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
4906 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
4907 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
4908 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
4909 the caching.)
4910
533244af
PH
491166. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
4912
a5a28604
PH
491367. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
4914 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
4915 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
4916 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
4917
7e634d24
PH
491868. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
4919 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
4920
3e11c26b
PH
492169. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
4922 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
4923 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
4924
6729cf78
PH
492570. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
4926 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
4927 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
4928 message there.
4929
00f00ca5
PH
493071. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
4931 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
4932 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
4933
c9bdd01c
PH
493472. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
4935 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
4936 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
4937 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
4938
d43194df
PH
493973. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
4940 during host lookups.
4941
fe5b5d0b
PH
494274. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
4943 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
4944
4945 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
4946
76a2d7ba
PH
494775. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
4948 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
4949 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
4950 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
4951 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
4952 background.
4953
495476. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
4955 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
4956
04f7d5b9
PH
495777. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
4958 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
4959 for the non-SMTP ACL.
4960
bc60667e
PH
496178. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
4962
bb6e88ff
PH
496379. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
4964 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
4965 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
4966 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
4967 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
4968 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
4969 process earlier.
4970
1e70f85b
PH
497180. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
4972 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
4973 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
4974 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
4975 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
4976
497781. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
4978 tables).
4979
4e01f9d6
PH
498082. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
4981
1ee1cef2
PH
498283. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
4983 "vacation" handling.
4984
6e2b4ccc
PH
498584. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
4986 OS variants using glibc.
4987
8e669ac1
PH
498885. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
4989
495ae4b0 4990
bbe902f0
PH
4991----------------------------------------------------
4992See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
4993----------------------------------------------------
4994
4995
4996Exim version 4.44
4997-----------------
4998
4999 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5000 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5001 transport
5002
5003 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5004 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5005 place.
5006
5007 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5008 filter fails to execute.
5009
5010 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5011 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5012 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5013 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5014 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5015
5016 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5017 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5018 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5019 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5020
5021 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5022 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5023 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5024 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5025 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5026
5027 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5028
5029 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5030 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5031 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5032 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5033
5034 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5035 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5036 sender verification.
5037
503810. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5039 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5040
504111. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5042 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5043
504412. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5045 ignore_target_hosts.
5046
504713. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5048 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5049 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5050 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5051 "[x.x.x.x]".
5052
505314. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5054 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5055 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5056
505715. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5058 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5059 wake it up if nothing else does.
5060
506116. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5062 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5063 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5064 end up negative.
5065
506617. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5067 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5068
ea3a6f44 506918. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
5070
507119. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5072 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5073 empty pattern.
5074
507520. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5076 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5077 one IP address.
5078
ea3a6f44
NM
507921. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5080 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5081 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5082 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5083 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5084 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 5085
ea3a6f44
NM
508622. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5087 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5088 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
5089
509023. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5091 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5092 $sender_host_address.
5093
509424. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5095
ea3a6f44
NM
509625. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5097 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5098 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
5099
510026. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 5101 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 5102
ea3a6f44
NM
510327. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5104 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 5105
ea3a6f44
NM
510628. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5107 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5108 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5109 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
5110
511129. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5112 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5113 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5114
ea3a6f44
NM
511530. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5116 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5117 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5118 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 5119
ea3a6f44
NM
512031. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5121 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5122 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 5123
ea3a6f44
NM
512431. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5125 autoreply.
bbe902f0 5126
ea3a6f44
NM
512732. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5128 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5129 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5130 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5131 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5132 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5133 is going on).
bbe902f0 5134
ea3a6f44
NM
513533. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5136 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5137 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5138 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
5139 CAN-2005-0021
5140
ea3a6f44
NM
514134. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5142 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5143 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5144 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5145 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5146 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5147 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5148
5149 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5150 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5151 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5152 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5153 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5154 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
5155 CAN-2005-0021
5156
ea3a6f44
NM
515735. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5158 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5159 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
5160 CAN-2005-0022
5161
ea3a6f44
NM
516236. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5163 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5164 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5165 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5166 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 5167
ea3a6f44
NM
516837. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5169 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5170 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5171 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5172 the caching.)
bbe902f0 5173
ea3a6f44
NM
517438. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5175 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5176 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5177 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5178 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
5179
5180
495ae4b0
PH
5181Exim version 4.43
5182-----------------
5183
5184 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5185 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5186 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5187 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5188 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5189 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5190 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5191
5192 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5193 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5194 the delivery.
5195
5196 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5197
5198 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5199
5200 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5201 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5202 to local_scan().
5203
5204 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5205 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5206 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5207 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5208 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5209
5210 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5211 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5212
5213 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5214
5215 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5216
521710. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5218 header_sender only.
5219
522011. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5221 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5222
522312. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5224 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5225 affecting debugging statements).
5226
522713. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5228
522914. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5230 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5231 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5232 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5233 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5234 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5235 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5236 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5237 after the received time, and all would be well.
5238
523915. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5240 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5241 condition in an expansion string.
5242
524316. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5244
524517. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5246 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5247 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5248 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5249 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5250 job under whatever limits there are.
5251
525218. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5253
525419. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5255 space).
5256
525720. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5258 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5259 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5260 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5261 return path is set.
5262
526321. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5264 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5265 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5266 binary data in such strings.
5267
526822. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5269
527023. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5271 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5272 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5273 failure, which is pointless.
5274
527524. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5276
527725. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5278
527926. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5280 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5281 Sender: header lines.
5282
528327. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5284 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5285 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5286
528728. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5288 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5289 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5290 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5291 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5292 happens.
5293
529429. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5295 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5296 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5297 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5298 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5299
530030. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5301 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5302 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5303 1024.
5304
530531. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5306 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5307
530832. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5309 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5310
531133. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5312
531332. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5314
531533. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5316
531734. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5318 syntax error.
5319
532035. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5321
532236. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5323
532437. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5325 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5326 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5327 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5328
532938. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5330 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5331
5332
5333Exim version 4.42
5334-----------------
5335
5336 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5337 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5338 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5339 it was not quoted.
5340 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5341 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5342 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5343 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5344 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5345 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5346
5347 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5348 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5349 verification failure".
5350
5351 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5352 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5353 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5354 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5355
5356 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5357 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5358 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5359 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5360 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5361 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5362 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5363 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5364 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5365 treated as a timeout.
5366
5367 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5368 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5369 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5370 not set for Exim filters).
5371
5372 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5373 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5374 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5375
5376 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5377
5378 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5379 try to make them clearer.
5380
5381 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5382 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5383
5384 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5385
5386 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5387
538810. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5389 only the Cygwin environment.
5390
539111. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5392 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5393 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5394 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5395 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5396
539712. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5398 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5399 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5400 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5401 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5402 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5403 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5404
540513. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5406 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5407
540814. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5409
5410 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5411 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5412 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5413
5414 To: susanne@some.where
5415
5416 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5417 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5418 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5419 of addresses in From: header lines).
5420
5421 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5422 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5423 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5424
5425 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5426 treated as non-personal.
5427
5428 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5429 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5430
543115. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5432
543316. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5434
543517. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5436 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
5437 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
5438
543918. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
5440 ACL and the local_scan() function.
5441
544219. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
5443 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
5444 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
5445 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
5446 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
5447 (I found it when inspecting the code).
5448
544920. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
5450 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
5451 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
5452 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
5453 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
5454 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
5455 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
5456 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
5457
5458 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
5459
546021. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
5461 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
5462
546322. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
5464 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
5465 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
5466
546723. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
5468 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
5469
547024. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
5471 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
5472 rather than long int.
5473
547425. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
5475
547626. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
5477
5478
5479Exim version 4.41
5480-----------------
5481
5482 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
5483 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
5484 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
5485 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
5486 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
5487 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
5488
5489
5490Exim version 4.40
5491-----------------
5492
5493 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
5494 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
5495
5496 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
5497 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
5498 socklen_t is defined.
5499
5500 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
5501 always exist.
5502
5503 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
5504 configured.
5505
5506 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
5507 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
5508 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
5509 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
5510 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
5511
5512 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
5513 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
5514 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
5515 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
5516
5517 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
5518 of flapping under certain conditions.
5519
5520 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
5521 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
5522 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
5523
5524 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5525
552610. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
5527
552811. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
5529 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
5530 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
5531 the duration of the SMTP connection.
5532
553312. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
5534 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
5535 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
5536 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
5537 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
5538 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
5539 preserved with the message after it was received.
5540
554113. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
5542 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
5543 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
5544 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
5545 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
5546 test suite worked just fine.
5547
554814. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
5549 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
5550 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
5551
555215. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
5553 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
5554 string.
5555
555616. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
5557 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
5558 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
5559 does not fully solve it.
5560
556117. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
5562 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
5563 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
5564 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
5565 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
5566
556718. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
5568 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
5569 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
5570
557119. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
5572 string, for example:
5573
5574 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
5575
5576 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
5577 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
5578 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
5579 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
5580 the routers could not see them.
5581
558220. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
5583 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
5584
558521. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
5586 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
5587 output).
5588
558922. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
5590 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
5591 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
5592 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
5593 that needed quoting.
5594
559523. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
5596 was not being matched caselessly.
5597
559824. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
5599 backslashes.
5600
560125. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
5602 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
5603 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
5604 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
5605 when use_sender is false.
5606
560726. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
5608
560927. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
5610
561128. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
5612
561329. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
5614 the configuration file.
5615
561630. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
5617 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
5618
561931. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
5620
562132. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
5622 bytes in the message body.
5623
562433. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
5625 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
5626 delivery.
5627
562834. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
5629
563035. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
5631
563236. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
5633 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
5634 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
5635 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
5636 another IP address.
5637
5638
5639Exim version 4.34
5640-----------------
5641
5642 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
5643 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
5644
5645 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
5646 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
5647 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
5648 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
5649 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
5650
5651 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
5652 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
5653
5654 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
5655 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
5656 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
5657
5658 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
5659 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
5660 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
5661
5662 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
5663 for routers.
5664
5665 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
5666 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
5667 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
5668 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
5669 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
5670 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
5671 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
5672
5673
5674Exim version 4.33
5675-----------------
5676
5677 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
5678 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
5679 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
5680 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
5681 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
5682 default (and expected) setting.
5683
5684 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
5685 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
5686 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
5687 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
5688
5689 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
5690 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
5691
5692 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
5693 in domain lists.
5694
5695 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
5696 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
5697 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
5698 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
5699 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
5700 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
5701
5702 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
5703 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
5704 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
5705
5706 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
5707 part (NOT match_host).
5708
5709 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
5710
5711 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
5712 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
5713 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
5714 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
5715 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
5716 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
5717 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
5718 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
5719 the same named file.
5720
572110. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
5722 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
5723 when Exim is built.
5724
572511. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
5726 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
5727 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
5728 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
5729 a host name.
5730
573112. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
5732 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
5733 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
5734
573513. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
5736
573714. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
5738
573915. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
5740
574116. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
5742 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
5743
574417. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
5745 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
5746 before starting the TLS session.
5747
574818. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
5749
575019. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
5751 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
5752
575320. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
5754 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
5755 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
5756 colon in the middle).
5757
5758
5759Exim version 4.32
5760-----------------
5761
5762 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
5763 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
5764 multiple configurations are in use.
5765
5766 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
5767 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
5768 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
5769 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
5770 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
5771 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
5772
5773 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
5774 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
5775
5776 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
5777 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
5778 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
5779
5780 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
5781 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
5782 occurs.
5783
5784 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
5785 that used bh_ and bheader_.
5786
5787 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
5788
5789 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
5790 allowing one more file than it should have been.
5791
5792 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
5793
5794 -prval:sval
5795
5796 is equivalent to
5797
5798 -oMr rval -oMs sval
5799
5800 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
5801 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
5802 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
5803 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
5804 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
5805
580610. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
5807 Exim's behaviour:
5808
5809 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
5810 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
5811 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
5812 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
5813 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
5814 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
5815
5816 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
5817 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
5818 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
5819 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
5820 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
5821 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
5822 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
5823 string.
5824
5825 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
5826 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
5827 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
5828 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
5829 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
5830
583111. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
5832
583312. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
5834 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
5835 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
5836
583713. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
5838
583914. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
5840 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
5841 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
5842 information.
5843
584415. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
5845 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
5846
584716. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
5848 Three changes have been made:
5849
5850 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
5851 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
5852 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
5853 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
5854 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
5855
5856 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
5857 been restored.
5858
5859 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
5860 the modified behaviour.
5861
5862
5863Exim version 4.31
5864-----------------
5865
5866 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
5867 Larry Rosenman.
5868
5869 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
5870 indeed breaks things for older releases.
5871
5872 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
5873 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
5874 try to track down a specific problem.
5875
5876 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
5877 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
5878 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
5879
5880 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
5881 warning.
5882
5883 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
5884 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
5885 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
5886 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
5887 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
5888 some earlier ones do not.
5889
5890 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
5891
5892 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
5893 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
5894 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
5895 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
5896 address literals are enabled, of course).
5897
5898 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
5899
590010. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
5901 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
5902 by a command such as
5903
5904 exim -f "" ...
5905
5906 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
5907
590811. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
5909
591012. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
5911 remained set. It is now erased.
5912
591313. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
5914 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
5915
591614. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
5917 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
5918 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
5919 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
5920 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
5921 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
5922 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
5923 appropriate error code.
5924
592515. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
5926 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
5927 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
5928 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
5929 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
5930 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
5931
593216. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
5933 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
5934 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
5935
593617. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
5937 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
5938 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
5939 terminate the header.
5940
594118. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
5942 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
5943 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
5944
594519. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
5946 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
5947 (4.30/29). In particular:
5948
5949 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
5950 imposed.
5951
5952 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
5953 to write a maildirsize file.
5954
5955 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
5956 the transport, the new value overrides.
5957
5958 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
5959 count.
5960
596120. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
5962 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
5963 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
5964 space or a tab.
5965
596621. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
5967 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
5968 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
5969 the fallback hosts.
5970
597122. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
5972 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
5973 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
5974
597523. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
5976 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
5977 using a union.
5978
597924. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
5980 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
5981 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
5982
598325. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
5984
598526. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
5986
598727. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
5988
598928. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
5990 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
5991 become corrupted.
5992
599329. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
5994 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
5995 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
5996 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
5997 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
5998 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
5999 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6000 too great.
6001
600230. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6003 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6004 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6005 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6006 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6007 incorrectly.
6008
600931. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6010 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6011 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6012 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6013 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6014 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6015 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6016 cached value only when the same options are set.
6017
601832. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6019
602033. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6021 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6022 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6023 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6024 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6025
602634: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6027 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6028 it is clearly obsolete.
6029
603035. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6031 transport.
6032
603336. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6034 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6035 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6036 times.
6037
603837. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6039 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6040 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6041 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6042 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6043
604438. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6045 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6046 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6047 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6048
604939. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6050
6051 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6052
6053 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6054 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6055 2^31.
6056
605740. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6058 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6059 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6060 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6061 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6062 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6063 $localpart_data.
6064
606541. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6066 with the -f command-line option.
6067
606842. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6069 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6070 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6071 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6072 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6073 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6074
607543. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6076 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6077 line.
6078
607944. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6080 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6081 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6082 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6083 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6084 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6085 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6086 buffer is too small.
6087
608845. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6089 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6090
609146. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6092 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6093 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6094 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6095 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6096 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6097 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6098 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6099 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6100
610147. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6102 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6103 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6104
610548. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6106 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6107 ACL").
6108
610949. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6110 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6111 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6112 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6113 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6114
611550. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6116 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6117 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6118 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6119 is set.
6120
612151. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6122
612352. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6124
612553. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6126 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6127
612854. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6129 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6130 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6131
613255. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6133 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6134 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6135 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6136 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6137
613856. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6139 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6140 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6141 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6142 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6143 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6144 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6145
614657. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6147 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6148 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6149 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6150 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6151 the test of how many are available.
6152
615358. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6154 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6155 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4c04137d 6156 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
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6157 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6158 new message is started.
6159
616059. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6161 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6162
616360. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6164 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6165
616661. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6167 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6168 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6169 is no long logged.
6170
617162. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6172 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6173 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6174 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6175 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6176 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6177 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6178
617963. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6180 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6181 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6182 interpreted as octal.
6183
618464. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6185 setting.
6186
618765. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6188 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6189 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6190 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6191 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6192 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6193
619466. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6195 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6196 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6197 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6198
6199 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6200 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6201 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6202 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6203
6204 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6205 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6206 is a bug fix.
6207
6208 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6209 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6210
621167. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6212
621368. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6214 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6215 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6216 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6217
621869. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6219 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6220 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6221 supplied", which is not helpful.
6222
622370. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6224 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6225 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6226
622771. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6228 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6229 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6230 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6231 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6232 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6233 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6234 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6235
623672. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6237 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6238 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6239 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6240 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6241
624273. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6243 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6244 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6245 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4c04137d 6246 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
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6247 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6248
624974. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6250 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6251 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6252
625375. Added write_rejectlog option.
6254
625576. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6256 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6257 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6258 variables.
6259
626077. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6261
626278. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6263 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6264 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6265 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6266 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6267 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6268 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6269 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6270
627179. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6272 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6273 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6274 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6275 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6276
627780. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6278 Haardt.
6279
628081. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6281 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6282 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6283 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6284 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6285 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6286 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6287 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6288 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6289
6290
6291Exim version 4.30
6292-----------------
6293
6294 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6295 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6296 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6297
6298 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6299 fixed.
6300
6301 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6302 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6303 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6304
6305 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6306 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6307 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6308 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6309 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4c04137d 6310 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
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6311
6312 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6313 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6314 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6315 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6316 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6317 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6318 the Exim test suite.
6319
6320 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6321 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6322 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6323 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6324
6325 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6326 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6327 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6328 specify it in this variable.
6329
6330 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6331 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6332 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6333 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6334
6335 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6336 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6337 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6338 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6339
6340 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6341 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6342 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6343 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6344 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6345
6346 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6347
634810. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6349 they are logged.
6350
635111. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6352 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6353 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6354 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6355 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6356
635712. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6358 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6359
636013. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6361 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4c04137d 6362 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
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6363 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6364 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6365
636614. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6367 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6368
636915. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6370 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6371 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6372
637316. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6374 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6375
637617. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6377 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6378
637918. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6380 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6381 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6382
638319. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6384 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6385
638620. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6387 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6388 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6389 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6390
639121. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6392
639322. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6394 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6395 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6396 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6397
639823. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6399
640024. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6401 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6402
640325. Added .include_if_exists.
6404
640526. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6406 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6407 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6408 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6409 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6410 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6411
641227. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6413
641428. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6415 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6416 this.
6417
641829. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6419
642030. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6421 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6422
6423 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6424 550 Sender verify failed
6425
6426 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6427 the final line of the response.
6428
642931. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6430 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6431 all other user lookups.
6432
643332. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6434 delivery time.
6435
643633. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
6437 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
6438 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
6439 result into an int without checking.
6440
644134. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
6442 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4c04137d 6443 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
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6444
644535. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
6446 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
6447 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
6448 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
6449
645036. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
6451 correctly.
6452
645337. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
6454 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
6455
645638. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
6457 to the empty sender.
6458
645939. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
6460 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
6461 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
6462 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
6463 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
6464 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
6465 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
6466 panic log.
6467
646840. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
6469 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
6470 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
6471 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
6472 used.
6473
647441. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
6475 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
6476
647742. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
6478 timestamps.
6479
648043. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
6481 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
6482
648344. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
6484
648545. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
6486 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
6487 logs.
6488
648946. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
6490 as soon as it is encountered.
6491
649247. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
6493
649448. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
6495 rewritten to "<>".
6496
649749. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
6498 recognizes a tab character.
6499
650050. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
6501 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
6502 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
6503 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
6504
650551. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
6506
650752. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
6508 crash.
6509
651053. Installed eximstats 1.29.
6511
651254. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
6513
651455. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
6515 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
6516 2822.
6517
651856. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
6519 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
6520 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
6521 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
6522 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
6523
652457. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
6525 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
6526
652758. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
6528 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
6529 list (.included file names were always shown).
6530
653159. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
6532 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
6533 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
6534 root at that time.
6535
653660. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
6537 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
6538
653961. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
6540
654162. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
6542
654363. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
6544
654564. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
6546 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
6547 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
6548 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
6549 failures to open the logs.
6550
655165. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
6552 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
6553 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
6554 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
6555 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
6556 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
6557 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
6558
6559
6560Exim version 4.24
6561-----------------
6562
6563 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
6564 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
6565 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
6566 change 4.23/1.
6567
6568 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
6569 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
6570 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
6571
6572 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
6573 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
6574 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
6575
6576 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
6577 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
6578 causing some misleading effects.
6579
6580 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
6581 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
6582 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
6583
6584 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
6585 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
6586 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
6587 queue-runner function directly.
6588
6589
6590Exim version 4.23
6591-----------------
6592
6593 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
6594 HEADERS_CHARSET.
6595
6596 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
6597 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
6598 was always written to the default place.
6599
6600 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
6601 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
6602 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
6603
6604 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
6605
6606 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
6607
6608 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
6609 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
6610 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
6611
6612 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
6613 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
6614 must start.
6615
6616 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
6617 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
6618 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
6619
6620 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
6621 command line option is disabled.
6622
6623 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
6624 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
6625
6626 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
6627
6628 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
6629
6630 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
6631 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
6632
663310. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
6634
663511. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
6636 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
6637 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
6638 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
6639 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
6640 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
6641
664212. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
6643 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
6644 timeout.
6645
664613. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
6647 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
6648
664914. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
6650 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
6651
665215. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
6653 received was valid base64.
6654
665516. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
6656 name of the variable that was being set.
6657
665817. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
6659
666018. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
6661 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
6662 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
6663 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
6664 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
6665 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
6666
666719. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
6668
666920. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
6670 nor realm was specified.
6671
667221. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
6673 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
6674 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
6675 errors are given to SMTP connections.
6676
667722. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
6678 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
6679 failing to send a response to QUIT.
6680
668123. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
6682 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
6683 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
6684
668524. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
6686 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
6687 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
6688 some systems use these upper case variants.
6689
669025. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
6691 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
6692 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
6693 socket" when it tried to send the third.
6694
669526. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
6696
669727. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
6698 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
6699
670028. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
6701 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
6702 expansion variable.
6703
670429. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
6705
670630. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
6707 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
6708 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
6709 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
6710
671131. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
6712 using it.
6713
671432. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
6715 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
6716 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
6717
671833. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
6719 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
6720
672134. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
6722 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
6723 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
6724 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
6725
672635. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
6727 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
6728 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
6729
673036. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
6731
673237. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
6733 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
6734 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
6735 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
6736 aborted.
6737
673838. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
6739 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
6740 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
6741
674239. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
6743
674440. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
6745 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
6746
674741. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
6748 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
6749
675042. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
6751 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
6752 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
6753 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
6754 when emails are that large.
6755
6756
6757
6758Exim version 4.22
6759-----------------
6760
6761 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
6762 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
6763
6764 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
6765 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
6766 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
6767
6768 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
6769 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
6770 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
6771
6772 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
6773 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
6774 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
6775 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
6776 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
6777
6778 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
6779 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
6780 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
6781 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
6782 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
6783 ever.
6784
6785 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
6786 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
6787 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
6788 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
6789 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
6790 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
6791 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
6792 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
6793 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
6794 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
6795 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
6796 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
6797 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
6798 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
6799
6800 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
6801 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
6802 parameterised it.
6803
6804 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
6805 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
6806 error should be diagnosed.
6807
6808 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
6809 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
6810 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
6811 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
6812 appeared instead of "NULL".
6813
681410. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
6815 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
6816 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
6817 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
6818 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
6819 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
6820 proceeds).
6821
6822 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
6823 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
6824 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
6825
6826
6827Exim version 4.21
6828-----------------
6829
6830 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
6831 or receiver verification errors.
6832
6833 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
6834 name.
6835
6836 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
6837 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
6838 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
6839 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
6840
6841 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
6842 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
6843 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
6844 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
6845 shouldn't happen again.
6846
6847 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
6848 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
6849 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
6850
6851 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
6852 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
6853
6854 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
6855
6856 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
6857 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
6858
6859 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
6860 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
6861 RFC.
6862
686310. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
6864 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
6865 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
6866
686711. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
6868 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
6869 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
6870 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
6871
687212. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
6873 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
6874 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
6875 to define what should happen).
6876
687713. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
6878 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
6879 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
6880
688114. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
6882
688315. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
6884
688516. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
6886 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
6887
4c04137d 688817. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
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6889 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
6890 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
6891 structure in all cases.
6892
6893 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
6894 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
6895 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
6896 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
6897
689818. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
6899 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
6900 domain name.
6901
690219. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
6903 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
6904
690520. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
6906 MD5 (which is deprecated).
6907
690821. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
6909 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
6910 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
6911
691222. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
6913 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
6914 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
6915
691623. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
6917 the book and for uniformity.
6918
691924. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
6920
692125. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
4c04137d 6922 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
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6923 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
6924 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
6925 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
6926 non-existent command as the problem.
6927
692826. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
6929 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
6930 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
6931
693227. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
6933
693428. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
6935 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
6936 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
6937
693829. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
6939 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
6940 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
6941 timestamps using strftime().
6942
694330. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
6944 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
6945
694632. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
6947 transport-time rewrites.
6948
694933. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
6950 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
6951 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
6952 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
6953
695434. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
6955 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
6956
695735. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
6958 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
6959 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
6960 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
6961 comma and a space.
6962
696336. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
6964 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
6965 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
6966 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
6967 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
6968 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
6969 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
6970
697137. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
6972 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
6973 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
6974 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
6975 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
6976
697738. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
6978 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
6979 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
6980 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
6981 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
6982 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
6983 remaining text gets split now.
6984
698539. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
6986 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
6987 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
6988 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
6989
699040. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
6991 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
6992 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
6993 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
6994 $return_path.
6995
699641. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
6997 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
6998 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
6999 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7000 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7001 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7002 passed through if needed.
7003
700442. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7005 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7006 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7007 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7008 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7009 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7010
701143. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7012 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7013 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7014 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7015 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7016
701744. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7018 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7019 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7020 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7021 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7022
702345. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7024 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7025 noticed.
7026
702746. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7028 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7029 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7030 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7031 mayhem of various kinds.
7032
703347. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7034 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
4c04137d 7035 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
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7036 the right test for positive values.
7037
703848. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7039 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7040 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7041 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7042 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7043 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7044 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7045 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7046 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7047 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7048 envelope.
7049
705049. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7051 module.
7052
705350. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7054 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7055 forbidding it.
7056
705751. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7058 the existing equality matching.
7059
706052. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7061 dealing with inode numbers.
7062
706353. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7064 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7065 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7066
706754. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7068 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7069 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7070 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7071 local_scan().
7072
707355. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7074 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7075 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7076 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7077 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7078 relay addresses has also been removed.
7079
708056. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7081
708257. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7083 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7084 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7085
708658. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7087 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7088 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7089 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7090 processing applies to CR:
7091
7092 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7093 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7094
7095 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7096 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7097 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7098 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7099
710059. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7101 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7102 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7103
710460. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7105 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7106 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7107 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7108 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7109 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7110 arisen.
7111
711261. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7113 program routers.
7114
711562. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7116 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7117 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7118 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7119 adds:
7120
7121 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7122
7123 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7124
7125 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7126
712763. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7128 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7129 not considered personal.
7130
713164. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7132
713365. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7134
713566. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7136
713767. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7138 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7139 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7140 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7141 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7142 header lines, and spool format errors.
7143
714468. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7145 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7146 for more flexibility.
7147
714869. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7149 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7150 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7151
715270. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7153 Sabourenkov.
7154
715571. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7156 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7157 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7158 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7159 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7160 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7161 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7162 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7163 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7164
716572. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7166 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7167 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7168 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7169 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7170 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7171 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7172
717373. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7174 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7175 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7176
717774. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7178 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7179 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7180 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7181 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7182 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7183 instead of killing the process with assert().
7184
718575. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7186 than Unicode encoding.
7187
718876. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7189 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7190 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7191 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7192
719377. Added process_log_path.
7194
719578. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7196 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7197
719879. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7199 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7200
720180. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7202 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7203 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7204
720581. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7206 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7207 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7208 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7209 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7210 were applied:
7211
7212 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7213 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7214 as invalid.
7215
721682. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7217 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7218 they will be used during message reception.
7219
7220
7221Exim version 4.20
7222-----------------
7223
7224The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
7225
7226****