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1Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
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4Exim version 4.78
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6
7PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
8 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
9 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
10
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11NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
12
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13NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
14 improved.
15
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16NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
17
c1e794ba 18PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
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20PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
21
22PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
23 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
24
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25PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
26 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
27
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28PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
29 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
30
f1e05cc7 31PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
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32 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
33 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
b322aac8 34
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35PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
36
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37PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
38 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
39
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40PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
41
c45dd180 42PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
c7955b11 43
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44PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
45 non-compliant senders.
46 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
47
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49Exim version 4.77
50-----------------
51
52PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
53 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
54
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55TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
56
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57TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
58 whitespace trailer
867fcbf5 59
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60TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
61 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
62
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63TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
64 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
65 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
66
67 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
68 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
69 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
70 not safe for signals.
71
72 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
73 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
74 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
75 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
76 exiwhat.
77
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78TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
79
80 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
81 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
82 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
83 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
84 means that when you upgrde Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
85
86 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
87 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
88 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
89 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
90 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
91 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
92
93 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
94 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
95 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
96 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
97
98 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
99 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
100 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
101 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
102
103 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
104 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
105 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
106 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
107 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
108 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
109 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
110 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
111 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
112
113 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
114 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
115 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
116 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
117
118 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
119 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
120 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
121 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
122 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
123 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
124 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
125 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
126 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
127 details in the main documentation.
128
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129TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
130
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131TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
132
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133TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
134 repository when doing development or release builds.
135
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136PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
137 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
e2ca7082 138
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139PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
140 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
141 Bugzilla 97.
142
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143PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
144
9e949f00 145PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
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146 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
147
148PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
149 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
9e949f00 150
555ae6af 151PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
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152 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
153
154PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
155 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
555ae6af 156
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157PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
158 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
159
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160PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
161 Bugzilla 1156.
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162 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
163 Bugzilla 1095.
c566dd90 164
d6cc7c78 165PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
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166 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
167 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
168
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169PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
170
3399bb60 171PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
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172
173PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
174 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
175
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177Exim version 4.76
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179
180PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
181
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182PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
183 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
184
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185PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
186
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187PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
188
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189PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
190 Bugzilla 1098.
191
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192PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
193 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
da80c2a8 194
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195TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
196 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
197
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198PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
199 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
200
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201PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
202 Bugzilla 1104.
203
c8d52a00 204TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
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205 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
206
207TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
208 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
209 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
210 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
211
212PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
213 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
c8d52a00 214
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216Exim version 4.75
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218
4c9ef03a 219NM/01 Workround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
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220 Bugzilla 1073
221
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222TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
223 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
224 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
225
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226TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
227 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
228
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229PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
230 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
231 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
232
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233PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
234 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
235
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236PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
237 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
238
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239NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
240 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
241
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242NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
243 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
244
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245PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
246 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
caacae52 247
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248NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
249 Fixes bug 943.
250
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251PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
252 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
253
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254PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
255 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
256
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257PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
258 SQL string expansion failure details.
259 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
260
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261PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
262 Patch from Simon Arlott.
263
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264PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
265 extern declarations in function scope.
266 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
267
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268PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
269 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
270 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
271 a kernel bug).
272
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273PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
274 Patch from Mark Zealey.
275
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276PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
277 Patch from Mark Zealey.
278
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279PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
280 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
281
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282PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
283 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
284
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285NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
286 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
287 Dennis Davis.
288
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289PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibilty coercion.
290
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291PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
292
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293NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
294 Patch by Simon Arlott
baeee2c1 295
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296TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
297 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
298
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300Exim version 4.74
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302
303TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
304 consequences so log it to the panic log.
305
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306TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
307 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
308
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309TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
310
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311DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
312 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
313 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
314
315PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
316 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
317 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
318
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319PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
320 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
321 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
322 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
323
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324PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
325 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
326 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
327 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
328
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329PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
330 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
331 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
332 arbitrary files.
333
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334PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
335 (Wolfgang Breyha)
336
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337PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
338 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
339 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
340 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
341 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
342
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346
347PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
348 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
349 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
350
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351PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
352 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
353
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354JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
355
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356PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
357
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358PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
359
ec5a0394 360PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
a29e5231 361
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362PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
363
453a6645 364PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
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365 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
366 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
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367 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
368
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369PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
370 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
371 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
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372 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
373 more caution in buffer sizes.
8544e77a 374
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375PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
376
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377PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
378
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379PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
380
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381PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
382
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383PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
384
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385PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
386
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387PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
388
6a8de854 389PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
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390 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
391 ignore trailing whitespace.
6a8de854 392
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393JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
394
395JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
396 "exim" to be used
55c75993 397
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398PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
399 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
400
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401PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
402 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
403 Notification from John Horne.
404
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405PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
406 compatible.
407
408PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
409 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
410 it normally works.
411
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412DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
413 access.
414
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415DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
416 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
417 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
418
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419DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
420 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
421 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
422 configuration file.
423
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424DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
425 option (effectively making it always true).
426
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427DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
428 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
429
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430DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
431 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
432
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433PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
434 run-time user, instead of root.
435
43236f35 436PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
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437 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
438
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439DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
440 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
441 arguments.
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443DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
444 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
445 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
446
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447DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
448
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449NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
450
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452Exim version 4.72
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454
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455JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
456 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
457 typos
465e92cf 458
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459JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
460 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
461 (Finput)
edae0343 462
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463NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
464 Patch from Alain Williams
465
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466NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
467
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468NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
469 Patch from Andreas Metzler
470
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471NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
472 Patch from Kirill Miazine
473
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474NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
475
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476JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
477
a466095c 478NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
b26eacf1 479 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
a466095c 480
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481TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
482
483TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
484
485MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
486 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
487 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
488
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489NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
490 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
94a6bd0b 491
b26eacf1 492NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
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493 Patch by Simon Arlott
494
179c5980 495PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
b26eacf1 496 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
179c5980 497
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501
7d9f747b 502TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
7c6d71af 503
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504NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
505
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506NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
507
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508NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
509
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510NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
511
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513Exim version 4.70
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515
cdd3bb85 516TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
e739e3d9 517 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
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518
519TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
520 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
7d9f747b 521 Hirsch).
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522
523TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
524 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
e739e3d9 525 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
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526
527TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
528 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
529
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530NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
531 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
532 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
533 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
534
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535NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
536 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
7d9f747b 537 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
deafd5b3 538
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539TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
540
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541TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
542
dae9d94e 543NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
7d9f747b 544 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
dae9d94e 545
7d9f747b 546NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
3f0da4d0 547
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548TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
549 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
550 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
551 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
552
65a7d8c3 553NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
7d9f747b 554 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
65a7d8c3 555
23510047 556TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
65a7d8c3 557
7d9f747b 558NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
5f28a6e8 559
7d8eec3a 560NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
7d9f747b 561 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
6c588e74 562
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563TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
564 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
5f28a6e8 565
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566TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
567 that they are available at delivery time.
568
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569TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
570
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571TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
572 incoming_port log selectors.
573
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574TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
575 setting expands to an empty string.
576
ce552449 577NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
7d9f747b 578 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
ce552449 579
e765a0f1 580NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
7d9f747b 581 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
e765a0f1 582
4f054c63 583NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
447de4b0 584 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
4f054c63 585
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586NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
587 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
24c929a2 588
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589NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
590 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
cf73943b 591
b52bc06e 592NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
7d9f747b 593 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
b52bc06e 594
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595NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
596
4c69d561 597NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
7d9f747b 598 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
4c69d561 599
d5c39246 600NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
7d9f747b 601 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
9b989985 602
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603TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
604
8f3414a1 605NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
7d9f747b 606 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
e2aacdfd 607
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608NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
609
610NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
8f3414a1 611
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612NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
613 lsearch.
dbb0bf41 614
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615NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
616 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
f3766eb5 617
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618NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
619 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
36f12725 620
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621NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
622 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
e6060e2c 623
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624NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
625 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
5eb690a1 626
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627NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
628 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
d5c13d66 629
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630NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
631 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
b2335c0b 632
7d9f747b 633NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
1da77999 634 plus update to original patch.
f4cd9433 635
7d9f747b 636NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
dc988b7e 637
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638NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
639 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
8dc71ab3 640
7d9f747b 641NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
400eda43 642
7d9f747b 643NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
ec5a421b 644
7d9f747b 645NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
07af267e 646
7d9f747b 647NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
51473862 648
17792b53 649NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
7d9f747b 650 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
17792b53 651
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652NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
653 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
52383f8f 654
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655NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mistmatches.
656 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
5ca6d115 657
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658NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
659 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
baee9eee 660
7d9f747b 661NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
e93a964c 662
7d9f747b 663NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
9bf3d68f 664
7d9f747b 665NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
96535b98 666
7d9f747b 667NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
30339e0f 668
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672
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673TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
674 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
675 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
676
677 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
678 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
679 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
680 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
681 build errors in sieve.c.
682
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683NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
684 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
685 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
686
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687SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
688
7d9f747b 689NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
8ad076b2 690
7d9f747b 691NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
a843aaa6 692
7d9f747b 693NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
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695
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698
699PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
700
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701PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
702 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
703 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
704 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
705 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
706 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
707 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
708 for iplsearch lookups.
709
710 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
711 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
712 previously such lookups could never work.
713
714 The situation is now rather anomolous, since one *can* have colons in
715 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
716 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
717
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718TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
719 version.
720
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721MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
722 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
723 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
724 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
725 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
726 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
727
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728TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
729 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
730
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731MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
732 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
733 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
734 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
735 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
736 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
737
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738PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
739 local_scan API.
740
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741PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
742
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743PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
744 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
745 encrypted.
746
747PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
748 by clients under certain conditions.
749
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750PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
751 "_responses" off the end of the name.
752
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753PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
754
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755PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
756 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
757
758PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
759
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760PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
761
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762PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
763
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764PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
765 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
766
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767PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
768
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769PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
770 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
771
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772PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
773
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774PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
775
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776PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
777 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
778 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
779 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
d6a60c0f 780
ddea74fa 781PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
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782 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
783 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
784
ddea74fa 785PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
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786 and InterBase are left for another time.)
787
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788PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
789
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790PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
791
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792PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
793
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794PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
795 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
796 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
797
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801
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802MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
803 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
804 Jan Srzednicki.
805
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806PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
807 issue a MAIL command.
808
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809PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
810
811 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
812
813 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
814 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
815 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
816 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
817 item. This has been fixed.
818
819PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
820 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
821
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822PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
823 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
824
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825PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
826 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
827 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
828
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829SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
830
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831PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
832 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
833 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
834 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
835 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
836
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837MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
838 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
839 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
840
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841PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
842 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
843 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
844 the server_setid option was incorrect.
845
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846PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
847
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848PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
849
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850PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
851 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
852 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
853 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
854 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
855
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856PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
857
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858PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
859 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
860 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
861 values).
862
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863PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
864
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865PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
866
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867PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
868
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869PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
870
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871PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
872
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873PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
874 no_callout_flush is set.
875
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876PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
877 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
878 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
879 fixed.
880
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881PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
882
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883PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
884 into multiline reponses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
885 other ACL rejections are.
886
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887PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
888 with slight modification.
889
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890PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
891 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
892
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893PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
894 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
895 connection.
896
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897PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
898 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
899
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900SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
901
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902PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
903 expansion side effects.
904
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905PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
906 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
907 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
908 be the same.
909
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910MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
911 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
912 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
913
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914PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
915 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
916 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
917 were accidentally chopped off.
918
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919PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
920 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
921 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
922 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
923 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
924 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
925 pipelining has not been advertised.
926
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927PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
928
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929PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
930 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
931 This has been fixed.
932
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933PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
934 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
935 reported on Solaris.
936
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937PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
938 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
939 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
940 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
941 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
942 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
943 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
944
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945PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
946 cpus.
947
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948PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
949
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950PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
951
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952PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
953 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
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954 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
955 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
956 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
957 criteria to be more general.
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959PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
960 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
961 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
962 host_all_ignored option.
963
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964PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
965 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
966 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
967 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
968 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
969 is what is supposed to happen).
970
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971PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
972 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
973 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
974 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
975 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
976 uses the Exim user.
977
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978PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
979 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
980 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
981 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
982 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
983 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
984 users.
985
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986PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
987
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988SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
989 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
990 (Jez Hancock).
991 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
992 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
993
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994SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
995
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996PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
997
58eb016e 998PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
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999 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
1000 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
1001 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
1002 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
1003 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
1004 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
1005 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
58eb016e 1006 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
563b63fa
PH
1007 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
1008 least in a lot of common cases.
58eb016e 1009
b43a74ea
PH
1010PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
1011 advertised in response to EHLO.
1012
b4ed4da0 1013
5dd1517f
PH
1014Exim version 4.66
1015-----------------
1016
1017PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
1018 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
1019
1020 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
1021 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
1022
1023 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
1024 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
1025 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
1026
1027 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
1028 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
1029 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
1030 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
1031 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
1032
1033
93cfa765
TK
1034Exim version 4.65
1035-----------------
1036
1037TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
1038 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
1039 versions. (#438)
1040
d6066548
MH
1041MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
1042 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
1043 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
1044
4362ff0d
PH
1045PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
1046 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
1047 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
1048 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
1049 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
1050 rather than extend the field.
1051
93cfa765 1052
944e9e9c
TF
1053Exim version 4.64
1054-----------------
aa41d2de 1055
21d74bd9
TK
1056TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
1057 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
1058 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
1059 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
1060 these files.
1061
1062TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
1063 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
1064 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
1065
1066TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
1067 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
1068 hence the _LINUX specificness.
944e9e9c
TF
1069
1070TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
1071 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
1072 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
1073 in the field name.
1074
2b1c6e3a
PH
1075PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
1076 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
1077 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
1078 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
1079 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
1080 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
1081 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
1082 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
1083 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
1084 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
1085 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
1086
1f872c80
PH
1087PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
1088 gcc 4.1.1 threw up.
1089
1090PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
1091 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
1092 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
1093 ignores EPIPE as well.
1094
d203e649
PH
1095PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
1096 (quoted-printable decoding).
1097
cc2ed8f7 1098PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
21a04aa3 1099 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
f951fd57 1100
ddfcd446
PH
1101PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
1102
d45b1de8
PH
1103PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
1104
1105PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
1106
38a0a95f 1107PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
641cb756 1108 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
38a0a95f 1109
a2405d83
JJ
1110JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
1111 in 4.64-PH/09.
1112
1113JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
1114 miscellaneous code fixes
1115
6ea85e9a
PH
1116PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
1117 rejections.
1118
26da7e20
PH
1119PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
1120 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
1121 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
1122 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
1123 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
1124 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
1125 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
1126 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
6ea85e9a 1127
14aa5a05 1128PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
7befa435 1129 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
14aa5a05
PH
1130 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
1131 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
1132 function.
1133 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
1134 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
1135 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
1136 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
1137 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
1138 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
1139 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
1140 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
1141 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
1142
ff75a1f7
PH
1143PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
1144 decoding.
1145
e6f6568e
PH
1146PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
1147 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
1148 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
1149 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
1150 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
1151 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
1152 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
1153 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
1154
d6f6e0dc
PH
1155PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
1156 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
1157 list.
1158
322050c2
PH
1159PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
1160 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
1161 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
1162 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
1163 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
1164 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
1165 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
1166 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
1167 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
1168 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
1169 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
1170 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
1171 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
1172
08955dd3
PH
1173PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
1174 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
1175 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
1176 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
1177 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
1178 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
1179 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
1180
1eccaa59
PH
1181PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
1182 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
1183 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
1184 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
1185 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
1186 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
1187 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
1188 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
1189 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
1190 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
1191
602e59e5
PH
1192PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
1193 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
1194 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
1195 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
1196 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
1197
411ef850
PH
1198PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
1199 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
1200 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
1201 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
1202 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
1203 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
1204 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
1205
7befa435
PH
1206PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
1207 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
1208 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
1209 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
1210 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
1211 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
1212 been verified.
1213
48da4259 1214PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
16ff981e
PH
1215 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
1216 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
1217 and authorization.)
1218
48da4259
PH
1219PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
1220 if any retry times were supplied.
1221
d1d5595c
PH
1222PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
1223 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
1224 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
1225
0ef732d9
PH
1226PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
1227
328895cc
PH
1228PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
1229
fd700877
PH
1230PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
1231 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
1232 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
1233 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
f6c332bd
PH
1234 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
1235 before) are ignored.
fd700877 1236
8dce1a6f
PH
1237PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
1238 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
1239
17af4a17
PH
1240PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
1241 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
1242 committing the later change.]
f6c332bd
PH
1243
1244PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
1245 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
1246 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
1247 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
1248 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
1249 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
1250 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
1251 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
1252 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
1253
1254 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
1255 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
1256 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
1257 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
1258 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
1259 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
1260 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
1261 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
1262 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
1263
1264 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
1265 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
1266 hammering the server.
1267
c1114884
PH
1268PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
1269 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
1270
7a0743eb
PH
1271PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
1272
0d85fa3f
PH
1273PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
1274 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
1275 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
1276
1bf43b78
PH
1277PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
1278 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
1279 one case where this was not true.
1280
520de300
PH
1281PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
1282 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
1283 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
1284 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
1285 fails.
1286
48c7f9e2
PH
1287PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
1288 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
1289 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
1290 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
1291 things. In particualar, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
1292 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
1293 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
1294 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
1295 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
1296 smtp transport.
1297
99ea1c86
PH
1298PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
1299 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
1300 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
1301 same for both kinds of LMTP.
1302
a2042e78
PH
1303PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
1304 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
1305
4fbcfc2e
PH
1306PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
1307 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
1308 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
1309
aa41d2de
PH
1310PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
1311
af561417
PH
1312PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
1313
3cc66b45
PH
1314PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
1315
194cc0e4
PH
1316PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
1317 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
1318 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
1319 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
1320
a401ddaa
PH
1321PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
1322 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
1323
4e88a19f
PH
1324PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
1325 be meaningful with "accept".
1326
d7d7b289
SC
1327SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
1328 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
1329
1330SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
1331 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
1332 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1333
1334SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
1335 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
1336 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
1337 there is data to show.
1338 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
1339
1340SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
1341 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
1342 as well as the number of messages.
1343
1344SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
1345 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
1346 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
1347
1348SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
1349 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
1350 have a flag are now skipped.
1351
1352SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
1353 Added the -emptyok flag.
1354
1355SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
1356 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
1357
0ea2a468
JJ
1358JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
1359 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
1360 whitesspace changes from 4.64-PH/27
1361
1362JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
1363 match 4.64-PH/13
1364
1365JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
1366 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
1367
1368JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
1369
1370JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
1371 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
1372
8a10f5a4
PH
1373PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
1374
30e18802
PH
1375PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
1376 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
1377 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
1378 contravention of the specifications.
1379
55728a4f
PH
1380PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
1381 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
1382 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
d7d7b289 1383
d7837193
PH
1384PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
1385 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
1386 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
1387
87054a31
PH
1388PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
1389
ea2c01d2
MH
1390MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
1391 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
1392 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
1393 some point in the past.
1394
e4fa6968
PH
1395PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
1396 transport during callout processing was broken.
1397
56f5d9bd
PH
1398PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
1399 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
1400
922e1c28
PH
1401PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
1402 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
1403
21eb6e72
PH
1404PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
1405 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
1406
a0540757
PH
1407PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
1408
944e9e9c 1409
478be7b0
SC
1410Exim version 4.63
1411-----------------
1412
1413SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
1414 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
1415
1416SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
1417 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
1418 there is data to show.
1419 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
1420
1421SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
1422 as the number of messages in eximstats.
1423
2b965a65
TF
1424TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
1425 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
478be7b0 1426
45b91596
PH
1427TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
1428 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
478be7b0 1429
c59f5781
TF
1430TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
1431 submissions from trusted users.
1432
90fc3069
TF
1433TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
1434 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
1435
6083aca0
TF
1436TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
1437 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
1438 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
1439 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
1440 there is now a framework to start from.
1441
765b530f
PH
1442PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
1443 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
1444 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
1445
4e167a8c
PH
1446PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
1447
4608d683
PH
1448PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
1449
b8dc3e4a
PH
1450PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
1451
5418e93b
PH
1452PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
1453 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
1454 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
1455
b4a9bda2
PH
1456PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
1457 libradius.
1458
45b91596
PH
1459PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
1460 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
1461 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
1462
5547e2c5
PH
1463PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
1464 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
1465 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
1466 its arguments.
1467
dbcef0ea
PH
1468PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
1469 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
1470 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
1471 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
1472 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
1473
25257489
PH
1474PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
1475 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
1476
c816d124
PH
1477PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
1478
a9ccd69a
PH
1479PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
1480 operations in malware.c.
1481
75fa1910
PH
1482PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
1483 signatures.
1484
a7d7aa58
PH
1485PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
1486 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
1487 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
1488 all.
1489
42119b09
PH
1490PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
1491 statements to "add_header".
1492
41609df5
PH
1493PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
1494 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
1495
a5bd321b
PH
1496PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
1497 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
1498 latter.
1499
e85a7ad5 1500PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
5dff5817
PH
1501 so that it is now:
1502
e85a7ad5
PH
1503 ${if or { \
1504 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
1505 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
1506 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
5dff5817
PH
1507 }{no}{yes}}
1508
e85a7ad5
PH
1509 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
1510 don't think Precedence: ever was.
5dff5817 1511
d8fe1c03
PH
1512PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
1513 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
1514
16282d2b
PH
1515PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
1516 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
1517 any possible encoding problems.
1518
35d40a98
PH
1519PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
1520 but not after initializing Perl.
1521
034d99ab
PH
1522PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
1523 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
1524 apparently, which is not desirable.
1525
6ec97b1b
PH
1526PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
1527 queries.
1528
e22ca4ac
JJ
1529JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
1530 --not options
1531
1532JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
1533
33d73e3b
PH
1534PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
1535 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
1536 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
1537 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
1538
9ecb03f3
PH
1539PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
1540 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
1541 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
1542
084efe8d
PH
1543PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
1544 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
1545 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
1546 0.12.
1547
366fc9f0
PH
1548PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
1549 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
1550 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
1551 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
1552 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
1553
c59f5781 1554
c887c79e
TF
1555Exim version 4.62
1556-----------------
1557
1558TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
1559 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
1560
1cce3af8
PH
1561PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
1562 patch).
1563
afb3eaaf
PH
1564PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
1565 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
1566 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
1567 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
1568 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
1569 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
1570 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
1571 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
1572 451 error is used.
1573
e173618b
PH
1574PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
1575
dd16e114
PH
1576PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
1577 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
1578 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
1579
f7fd3850
PH
1580PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
1581 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
1582 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
1583 odd errors.
1584
d87df92c
PH
1585PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
1586 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
1587
7e9f683d
PH
1588PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
1589 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
1590 option (which defaults to 0600).
1591
bfad5236
PH
1592PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1593
01c490df
PH
1594PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
1595 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
1596 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
1597 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
1598 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
1599 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
1600 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
1601
d6629cdc
PH
1602PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
1603
1cce3af8 1604
214e2000
PH
1605Exim version 4.61
1606-----------------
1607
1608PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
1609 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
1610 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
1611 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
1612 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
1613 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
1614 addresses as local.
1615
f9daeae0
PH
1616PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
1617 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
1618
7e66e54d
PH
1619PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
1620
c8ea1597
PH
1621PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
1622 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
1623 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
1624 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
1625 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
1626 grumble.
1627
911f6fde
PH
1628PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
1629 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
1630
47ca6d6c
PH
1631PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
1632 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
1633 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
1634 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
1635 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
1636
ed0e9820
PH
1637PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
1638 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
1639 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
1640 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
1641
eff37e47
PH
1642PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
1643 be the same on different OS.
1644
1921d2ea
PH
1645PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
1646 testing.
1647
b3f69ca8
JJ
1648JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
1649 whether --show-vars was specified or not
1650
1651JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
1652 in 4.61-PH/06
1653
424a1c63
PH
1654PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
1655 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
1656 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
1657 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
1658 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
1659 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
1660 bounce message.
1661
7a100415
PH
1662PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
1663 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
1664 when Exim was called.
1665
19b9dc85
PH
1666PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
1667 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
1668
309bd837
PH
1669PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
1670 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
1671 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
1672 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
1673
59e82a2a
PH
1674PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
1675 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
1676 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
1677 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
1678 changes:
1679
1680 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
1681 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
1682 suitable debugging ouput when -d is set.
1683
1684 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
1685 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
1686 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
1687
9edc04ce
PH
1688PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
1689 feature).
1690
1349e1e5
PH
1691PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
1692 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
1693 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
1694 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
1695 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
1696 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
1697 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
1698 values from the SRV records were lost.
1699
ea49d0e1
PH
1700PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
1701 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
1702 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
1703
064a94c9
PH
1704PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
1705 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
1706 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
1707
727071f8
PH
1708PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
1709 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
1710 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
1711 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
1712 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
1713 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
1714 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
1715 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
1716 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
dd16e114 1717 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
727071f8 1718
f78eb7c6
PH
1719PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
1720 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
1721 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
1722
21c28500
PH
1723PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
1724 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
1725
1726PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
1727 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
1728 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
1729 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
1730 is given.
1731
1688f43b
PH
1732PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
1733 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
1734 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
1735
1736PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
1737 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
1738 PH/23 above applies.
1739
9675b384
PH
1740PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
1741 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
1742 (for which there is an explicit test).
1743
6a3f1455
PH
1744PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
1745
dac79d3e
PH
1746PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
1747 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
1748 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
1749 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
1750 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
1349e1e5 1751
5977a0b3
PH
1752PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
1753 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
1754 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
1755 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
1756
c91535f3
PH
1757PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
1758 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
1759 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
1760
0d46a8c8
PH
1761PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
1762
278c6e6c
PH
1763PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
1764
2cbb4081
PH
1765PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
1766 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
1767 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
1768
3eef829e
PH
1769PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
1770 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
1771 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
1772 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
1773 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
1774
1ab95fa6
PH
1775PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
1776 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
1777 the message gets confusing).
1778
230205fc
PH
1779PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
1780 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
1781 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
1782 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
1783
75e0e026
PH
1784PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
1785 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
1786 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
1787 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
1788 same order.
1789
1790PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
1791 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
1792 the different processes.
1793
145396a6
PH
1794PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
1795
3cd34f13
PH
1796PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
1797
11121d3d
JJ
1798JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
1799 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
1800
1801JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
1802 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
1803
1804JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
1805 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
1806 messages matching specified criteria.
1807
8def5aaf
PH
1808PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
1809
929ba01c
PH
1810PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
1811 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
1812
2632889e
PH
1813PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
1814 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
1815 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
1816 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
1817 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
1818 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
1819 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
1820 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
1821 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
1822 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
1823
944a9c55
PH
1824PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
1825 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
1826 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
1827
4a23603b
PH
1828PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
1829
4730f942
PH
1830PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
1831 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
1832 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
1833 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
1834 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
1835 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
1836 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
1837 the variable.
1838
30dba1e6
PH
1839PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
1840 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
1841
382afc6b
PH
1842PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
1843
a86229cf
PH
1844PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
1845
50c99ba6
PH
1846PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
1847
d35e429d
PH
1848PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
1849 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
1850 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
1851 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
1852 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
1853 size of the count of files.
1854
f90d018c
PH
1855PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
1856
75def545
PH
1857PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
1858 used in LMTP mode:
1859
1860 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
1861 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
1862 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
1863 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
1864
1865 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
1866 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
1867 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
1868
1869PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
1870 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
1871 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
1872 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
1873 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
1874
c46782ef
PH
1875PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
1876 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
1877
71fafd95
PH
1878PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
1879 will now be deprecated.
1880
2c5db4fd
PH
1881PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
1882
9cf6b11a
JJ
1883JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
1884 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
1885 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
1886
1887JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
1888 with very large, slow to parse queues
1889
1890JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
1891
1892JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
1893
898d150f
PH
1894PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
1895 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
1896 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
1897 SMTP output lines.
1898
46218253
PH
1899PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
1900 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
1901 Sieve code now uses this.
1902
e97957bc
PH
1903PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
1904 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
1905
81e509d7
PH
1906PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
1907 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
1908
3d240ff7
PH
1909PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
1910
b37c4101
PH
1911PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
1912 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
1913 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
1914 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
1915 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
1916
79378e0f
PH
1917PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
1918 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
1919 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
1920 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
1921
e49c7bb4
PH
1922PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
1923
d114ec46
PH
1924PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
1925
f3d7df6c
PH
1926PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
1927 is preferred over IPv4.
1928
715ab376
PH
1929PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
1930 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
1931 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
1932 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
1933 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
1934 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
1935 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
1936
6b31b150
PH
1937PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
1938 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
1939 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
1940
1941PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
1942
d515a917
PH
1943PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
1944 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
1945 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
1946 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
1947 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
1948 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
1949 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
1950 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
1951 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
1952 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
1953 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
1954
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1955PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
1956 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
1957 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
1958
214e2000 1959
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1960Exim version 4.60
1961-----------------
1962
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1963PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
1964
1965 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
1966 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
1967
1968 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
1969 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
1970 statements are most likely to be submissions.
5de37277 1971
72fdd6ae
PH
1972PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
1973
1974 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
1975 not a single digit.
1976
1977 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
1978 string.
1979
1980 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
1981 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
1982 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
1983 silly things.
1984
1985 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
1986 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
1987
1988 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
1989 inside the third argument.
cb9328de 1990
cb741023
PH
1991PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
1992 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
1993 "/bin:/usr/bin".
1994
f174f16e
PH
1995PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
1996 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
b2f5a032 1997
c25242d7
PH
1998PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
1999 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
2000
2001 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
2002
2003 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
2004 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
2005 this:
2006
2007 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
2008
82c19f95
PH
2009PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
2010 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
2011 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
2012 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
2013 identical. For example:
2014
2015 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
2016
2017 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
2018 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
2019 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
2020
d7ffbc12
PH
2021PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
2022 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
2023 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
2024 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
2025
9f526266
PH
2026PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
2027 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
2028 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
2029 message.
2030
87fcc8b9
PH
2031PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
2032
2033 o fixes some comments
2034 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
2035 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
2036 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
2037 and documents the missing references header update
2038
2039 and most important:
2040
2041 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
2042 multiple envelope elements, the last element determinted the
2043 result)
2044
456682f5
PH
2045PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
2046 Electronic Mail") by including:
2047
2048 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
2049
2050 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
2051 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP mesages, there was
2052 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
2053 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
2054 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
2055
2056 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
2057
2058 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
2059
2060 The auto-replied keyword:
2061
2062 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
2063 message by an automatic process,
2064
2065 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
2066
2067 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
2068 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
2069
2070 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
2071 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
2072 other messages.
2073
3e46c1aa
PH
2074PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
2075 to the default Received: header definition.
456682f5 2076
49826d12
PH
2077PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
2078
eba0c039
PH
2079PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
2080 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
2081 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
2082
a0d6ba8a
PH
2083PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
2084 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
2085 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
2086
f0917727
PH
2087PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
2088 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
2089 and treats the condition as false.
2090
096fee00
PH
2091PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
2092
024bd3c2
PH
2093PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
2094 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
2095 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
2096 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
2097 not changing the active code.
2098
2099 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
2100 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
2101
2102 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
2103 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
2104
df199fec
PH
2105PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
2106 (Bugzilla #53).
2107
d27f1df3
PH
2108PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
2109 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
2110 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
2111 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
2112 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
2113 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
2114 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
2115 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
2116 the text comparison.
2117
96776534
PH
2118PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
2119 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
2120 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
2121 The same fix has been applied.
2122
5de37277 2123
9a799bc0
PH
2124Exim version 4.54
2125-----------------
2126
2127PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
2128 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
2129 It now does.
2130
99a4b039
PH
2131PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
2132 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
2133
2134PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
2135
4b233853
PH
2136PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
2137 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
2138 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
2139 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
2140 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
2141
8857ccfd
PH
2142TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
2143 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
2144 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
2145 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
2146 or /domain=).
2147
433a2980
PH
2148PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
2149 testing suite.
2150
3e46c1aa 2151
9a799bc0 2152
e3a311ba
TK
2153Exim version 4.53
2154-----------------
2155
2156TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
2157 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
2158
13b685f9
PH
2159PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
2160
395ff96d
PH
2161PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
2162
5b68f6e4
PH
2163PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
2164 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
2165 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
2166
1ab52c69
PH
2167PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
2168 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
2169 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
2170
b07e6aa3
PH
2171PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
2172 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
2173 operating systems.
2174
254e032f
PH
2175PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
2176 ${stat: expansion item.
2177
3af76a81
PH
2178PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
2179 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
2180
2548ba04
PH
2181PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
2182 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
2183 file for comments.
2184
b6c6011d
PH
2185PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
2186
cf39cf57
PH
2187PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
2188 setting.
2189
f1513293
PH
2190PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
2191 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
2192
727549a4
PH
2193TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
2194
af46795e
PH
2195PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
2196 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
2197 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
2198 the end of the subprocess.
2199
d7b47fd0
PH
2200PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
2201 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
2202 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
2203 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
2204 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
2205
ee744174
JJ
2206JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
2207
b582ab87
PH
2208TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
2209
41a13e0a
PH
2210PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
2211 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
2212
f625cc5a
PH
2213PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
2214
2215PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
2216
21f7af35
PH
2217PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
2218 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
2219 HP-UX compiler.
2220
31480e42
PH
2221PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
2222
2d280592
PH
2223PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
2224 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
2225 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
2226
7cd1141b
PH
2227PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
2228 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
2229
2230PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
2231 host errors such as "Connection refused".
2232
750af86e
PH
2233PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
2234 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
2235
2236 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
2237 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
2238
2239 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
2240 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
2241 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
2242 contributed by a Radius user.
2243
2244PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
2245 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
2246
4304270b
TK
2247TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
2248 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
2249
750af86e
PH
2250PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
2251 available.
2252
64ffc24f
PH
2253PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
2254 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
2255 received.
2256
5dd9625b
PH
2257PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
2258 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
2259 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
2260 header lines when this was not necessary.
2261
5591031b
PH
2262PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
2263
ba18e66a
PH
2264PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
2265 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
2266 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
2267 exists".
2268
9cec981f
PH
2269PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
2270 -bV or -d is used.
2271
aa2b5c79
PH
2272PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
2273 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
1509d3a8
PH
2274 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
2275 return code was incorrect.
aa2b5c79 2276
48a53b7f
PH
2277PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
2278
1c59d63b
PH
2279PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
2280
671012da
TK
2281TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
2282
1509d3a8
PH
2283PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
2284
2285PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
2286 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
2287 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
2288 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
2289 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
2290 settings.
2291
2292PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
2293
2fe1a124
PH
2294PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
2295 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
2296 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
2297 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
2298 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
2299 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
2300 which is clearly wrong.
2301
8800895a
PH
2302PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
2303
ccfdb010
PH
2304PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
2305 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
2306 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
2307 subsequently added.
2308
1130bfb0
PH
2309PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
2310 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
2311
ebcb507f
PH
2312PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
2313
c35e155c
PH
2314PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
2315 the "build-* directories that it finds.
2316
95d1f782
PH
2317PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
2318 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
2319
fd6de02e
PH
2320PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
2321 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
2322
58de37c5
PH
2323PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
2324 recipients, not senders.
2325
261cf466
TF
2326TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
2327 the ratelimit ACL was added.
2328
3ee512ff
PH
2329PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
2330
e08c430f
PH
2331PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
2332
bef5a11f
PH
2333PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
2334 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
2335 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
2336 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
2337
7546de58
TF
2338TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
2339
e5d5a95f
TF
2340TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
2341 clock is set back in time.
2342
2e88a017
TF
2343TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
2344 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
2345
a5f65aa4
TF
2346TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
2347 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
2348
e7726cbf
PH
2349PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
2350 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
2351 (see PH/47 above).
2352
a7fdad5b
TF
2353TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
2354 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
2355 header rewrites.
2356
6af56900
PH
2357PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
2358 type ("H").
2359
0925ede6
PH
2360PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
2361
66afa403
TF
2362TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
2363 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
2364 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
2365
0154e85a
TF
2366TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
2367 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
2368 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
2369 helo verification defer as a failure.
2370
16f12c76
PH
2371PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
2372 actual error message.
2373
bbe902f0 2374
e5a9dba6
PH
2375Exim version 4.52
2376-----------------
2377
2378TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
2379
22c3b60b
PH
2380PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
2381 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
2382 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
2383 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
2384
06a9b4b5
PH
2385TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
2386
c1ac6996
PH
2387PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
2388 can still be requested.
2389
9c7a242c
PH
2390PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
2391 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
2392 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
2393 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
2394
87ba3f5f
PH
2395TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
2396 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
2397 circumstances, but probably never did.
2398
2399PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
2400 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
2401 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
2402 in the header line.
2403
29aba418
TF
2404TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
2405
fe0dab11
TF
2406TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
2407 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
870f6ba8 2408
11d337a4
TK
2409TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
2410
2411TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
2412
415c8f3b
PH
2413PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
2414 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
2415 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
2416 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assumimg that macro definitions were
2417 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
2418 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
11d337a4 2419
958541e9
PH
2420PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
2421 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
2422 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
2423 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
2424 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
2425 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
2426
c206415f
TK
2427TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
2428 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
2429
2a4be8f9
PH
2430PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
2431 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
2432
1cba11c5
SC
2433SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
2434 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
2435
2436SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputing results.
2437
2438SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
2439
2440SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
2441
2442SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
2443
2444SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
2445
2446SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
2447
1005d00e
TK
2448TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
2449
2450TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
2451 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
2452 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
2453
2454TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
2455 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
2456 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
2457 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
2458
9b4768fa
PH
2459PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
2460 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
2461 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
2462
2463PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
2464 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
2465 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
2466 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
2467
0d7eb84a
PH
2468PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
2469 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
2470 to be made).
2471
2472PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
2473 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
2474 should work with maildirs and everything.
2475
40727bee
TK
2476TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
2477 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
2478
554d2369
TF
2479TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
2480 <jgh@wizmail.org>
2481
1f922db1
PH
2482PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
2483 function for BDB 4.3.
2484
ef213c3b
PH
2485PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
2486
8ac170f3
PH
2487PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
2488 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
2489 involved.
2490
b1c749bb
PH
2491PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
2492 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
2493 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
c6c2dc1d
PH
2494 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
2495 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
2496 formatting function string_vformat().
b1c749bb 2497
4aac9b49
PH
2498PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
2499 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
2500 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
2501 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
2502 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
2503 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
2504 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
2505 falls back to the previous guessing code."
2506
294520c8
TK
2507TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
2508 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
2509 details.
2510
5bd022fe
PH
2511PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
2512 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
2513
90e9ce59
PH
2514PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
2515 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
2516 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
2517 test. It is now used for both.
2518
5ea81592
PH
2519PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
2520 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
2521 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
2522 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
2523 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
2524 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
2525
c6c2dc1d
PH
2526PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
2527 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
2528 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
2529 string_vformat().
2530
fffffe4c
PH
2531PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
2532 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
2533 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
ca02eafb 2534
9a26b6b2
PH
2535PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
2536 experimental DomainKeys support:
2537
2538 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
2539 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
2540 the control was given.
2541
2542 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
2543
4aee0225
PH
2544PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
2545
32d668a5
PH
2546PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
2547
8187c3f3
PH
2548PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
2549 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
2550 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
2551 db.h files).
2552
ff790e47 2553PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
f1e894f3
PH
2554 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
2555 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
2556 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
2557 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
2558 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
2559 course.
ff790e47 2560
5417f6d1
PH
2561PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
2562 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
2563 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
2564 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
2565 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
2566 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
2567
59cf8544
PH
2568PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
2569 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
2570 do -d+all out of habit.
2571
e7ad8a65
PH
2572PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
2573 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
2574 x86_64 Fedora Core.
2575
ade42478
PH
2576PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
2577 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
2578 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
2579 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
2580 record types that Exim uses.
2581
182ad5cf
PH
2582PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
2583 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
2584 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
2585 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
2586 non-existent file that was broken.
2587
b0d9fc80
TK
2588TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
2589 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
2590
2591TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
2592 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
2593 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
2594
2595TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
2596
47c7a64a
PH
2597PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
2598 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
2599 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
2600 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
2601 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
2602 same time.
2603
a388bce4
SC
2604SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
2605 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
2606 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
2607 at a slight CPU cost.
2608
2609SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
2610 as requested by Marc Sherman.
2611
2612SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
2613 by Marc Sherman.
2614
0793e4ed
SC
2615SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
2616
c58b88df
PH
2617PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
2618 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
2619
e7ad8a65 2620
7982096b
PH
2621Exim version 4.51
2622-----------------
2623
1a46a8c5
PH
2624TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
2625 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
2626
2f079f46 2627TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
1a46a8c5
PH
2628
2629TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
2630
2631PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
2632 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
2633
2634PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
2635 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
2636 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
2637 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
2638 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
2639 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
2640 file.
2641
2642PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
2643 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
2644 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
2645 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
2646 these two options.
2647
2648PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
2649 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
2650 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
2651 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
2652 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
2653 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
2654 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
c2c19e9d 2655 address.
1a46a8c5
PH
2656
2657PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
2658 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
2659
2660PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
2661 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
2662 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
2663 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
2664 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
2665 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
2666
2667PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
2668 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
2669 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
2670 SMTP commands that take arguments.
2671
2672PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
2673 Finch).
2674
2675PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
2676 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
8d67ada3 2677
49c2d5ea
PH
2678PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
2679 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
f331f3b6
PH
2680 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
2681 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
2682 message.
49c2d5ea 2683
bf759a8b
PH
2684PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
2685
83364d30
PH
2686PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
2687 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
2688
7999bbd7
PH
2689PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
2690 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
2691 to what was transported.)
2692
7dbf77c9
PH
2693TF/01 Added $received_time.
2694
74e0617f
PH
2695PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
2696 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
2697 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
2698 spamd_address settings.
2699
2f079f46
PH
2700PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
2701 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
2702 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
2703 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
2704 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
2705
8c841523
PH
2706PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
2707
7766a4f0
PH
2708PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
2709 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
2710 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
2711 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
2712 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
2713
8b417f2c
PH
2714PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
2715 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
2716
901f42cb
PH
2717PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
2718 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
2719 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
2720 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
2721 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
2722 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
2723 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
2724 for failure.
2725
f9b9210e
PH
2726PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
2727 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
2728 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
2729 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
2730 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
2731 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
2732 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
2733 "input=".
2734
54cdb463
PH
2735PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
2736
cf00dad6
PH
2737PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
2738 driver and ACL definitions.
2739
acb1b346
PH
2740PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
2741 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
2742
c5ddb310
PH
2743PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
2744 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
2745 understands it better than I do:
2746
2747 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
2748 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
2749
2750 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
2751 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
2752 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
2753 => three warnings about OTP not working
2754 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
2755
2756 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
2757 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
2758 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
2759 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
2760 for each call.)
2761 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
2762 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
2763
2764 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
2765 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
2766 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
2767
31619da6
PH
2768PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
2769 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
2770 specified.
2771
bebaf0fc
PH
2772PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
2773 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
2774 "Linux".
2775
475fe28a
PH
2776PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
2777 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
2778 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
2779
2780 warn !verify = sender
2781 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
2782
2783 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
2784 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
2785
7e8bec7a
PH
2786PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
2787
2788 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
2789 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
2790
2791 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
2792 nomenclature these days.)
2793
e4a89c47
PH
2794PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
2795 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
2796
5ca2a9a1
PH
2797PH/30 In these circumstances:
2798 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
2799 . First host does not offer TLS;
2800 . First host accepts first address;
2801 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
2802 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
2803 . Second host accepts second address.
2804 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
2805 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
2806 address.
7e8bec7a 2807
c688b954
PH
2808PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
2809 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
2810 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
2811 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
2812 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
2813
fed77020
PH
2814PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
2815 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
2816
7fe1560f
PH
2817PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
2818 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
c688b954 2819
ebb6e6d5
PH
2820PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
2821 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
2822 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
2823
9c4e8f60
PH
2824PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
2825 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
2826 overlooked.
2827
2828PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
2829
d7174846
PH
2830PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
2831 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
2832 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
2833 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
2834 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
2835 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
2836 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
2837
2838 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
2839 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
2840 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
2841 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
2842 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
2843
2844 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
2845 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
2846 routed further.
2847
cfe75fc3
PH
2848PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
2849 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
2850 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
2851 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
2852 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
2853 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
2854
be22d70e
PH
2855PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
2856
0612b098
PH
2857PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
2858 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
2859 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
2860 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
2861 printable escape sequences.
2862
2e0c1448
PH
2863PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
2864 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
2865 body only.
2866
447d236c
PH
2867PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
2868 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
2869 are as follows:
2870
2871 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
2872 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
2873 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
2874 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
2875 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
2876
2877 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
2878 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
2879 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
2880
d20976dc
PH
2881PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
2882
f656d135
PH
2883PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
2884 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
2885 play with."
2886
2e2a30b4
PH
2887PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
2888 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
2889 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
2890 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
2891 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
2892 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
2893 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
2894 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
2895 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
2896 the log output.
2897
9176e9f0
PH
2898PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
2899 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
2900 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
2901 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
2902 "make".
2903
7982096b 2904
bbe902f0
PH
2905A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
2906----------------------------------------
2907
2908Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
2909changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
2910needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
2911in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
2912that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
2913release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
2914from 4.43.
2915
2916I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
29174.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
2918those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
2919historical information.
2920
2921
f7b63901 2922Exim version 4.50
495ae4b0
PH
2923-----------------
2924
5fe762f6
PH
2925 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
2926
139059f6 2927 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5fe762f6 2928 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
495ae4b0 2929
7086e875
PH
2930 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
2931 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
2932 place.
2933
35af9f61
PH
2934 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
2935 filter fails to execute.
2936
b668c215
PH
2937 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
2938 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
2939 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
2940 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
2941 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
2942
a494b1e1
PH
2943 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
2944
2945 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
2946 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
2947 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
2948 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
35edf2ff 2949
c5fcb476
PH
2950 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
2951 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
2952 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
2953 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
2954 control that does not make sense is encountered.
2955
69358f02
PH
2956 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
2957
5be20824
PH
295810. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
2959
eb2c0248
PH
296011. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
2961 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
2962 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
2963 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
2964
2a3eea10
PH
296512. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
2966 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
2967 sender verification.
2968
296913. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
2970 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
2971
23c7ff99
PH
297214. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
2973
4deaf07d
PH
297415. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
2975 connection timeout.
2976
926e1192
PH
297716. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
2978 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
2979
650edc6f
PH
298017. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
2981 the spool by the -Mrm option.
2982
2c7db3f5
PH
298318. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
2984 information about exactly what failed.
2985
3d235903
PH
298619. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
2987
7c7ad977
PH
298820. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
2989 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
2990 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
2991
981756db
PH
299221. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
2993 It is now set to "smtps".
2994
d4eb88df
PH
299522. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
2996 ignore_target_hosts.
2997
299823. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
2999 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3000 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3001 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3002 "[x.x.x.x]".
3003
7d468ab8
PH
300424. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3005 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3006 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3007
300825. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3009 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3010 wake it up if nothing else does.
3011
62c0818f
PH
301226. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3013 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3014 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3015 end up negative.
3016
26034054
PH
301727. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3018 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3019
af66f652
PH
302028. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
3021
90af77f4
PH
302229. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
3023 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
3024 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
3025 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
3026 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
3027 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
3028 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
3029 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
3030
d8ef3577
PH
303130. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
3032 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
3033 than one IP address.
3034
5cb8cbc6
PH
303531. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
3036 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
3037 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
3038 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
3039
14702f5b
PH
304032. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3041 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3042 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3043 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3044 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3045 1024 to 2048 bytes.
3046
063b1e99
PH
304733. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
3048 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
3049 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
3050 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
3051
652e1b65
PH
305234. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3053 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3054 respected.
3055
6f0c9a4f
PH
305635. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3057 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3058 $sender_host_address.
3059
33397d19
PH
306036. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
3061 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
3062 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
3063 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
3064 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
3065 very small.
3066
7bb56e1f
PH
306737. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
3068
3069 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
3070 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
3071
ea3bc19b
PH
3072 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
3073 just the host names, not the priorities.
3074
3075 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
ff4dbb19
PH
3076 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
3077 controlled by a keyword.
7bb56e1f 3078
ea3bc19b 3079 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
7bb56e1f 3080 multiple records are returned.
33397d19 3081
0bcb2a0e
PH
308238. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
3083 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
3084 domain.
3085
2ac0e484
PH
308639. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
3087
4e1fde53
PH
308840. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
3089 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
3090
de365ded
PH
309141. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3092 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3093 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
3094
f05da2e8
PH
309542. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
3096
d6453af2
PH
309743. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
3098
f7b63901
PH
309944. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
3100
310145. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3102 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3103 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3104 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3105 because the tests only now provoked it.
3106
a444213a
PH
310746. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3108 (this can affect the format of dates).
3109
0ec020ea
PH
311047. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3111 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3112 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3113 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
3114
b1206957
PH
311548. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
3116
311749. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3118 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3119 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3120 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
3121
26dd5a95
PH
312250. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3123 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3124 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
3125
343b2385
PH
312651. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3127 autoreply.
3128
1c5466b9
PH
312952. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3130 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3131 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3132 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3133 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3134 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3135 is going on).
3136
55ee9ee3
PH
313753. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
3138 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
3139 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
3140 the line.
3141
d38f8232
PH
314254. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
3143 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
3144 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
3145
3146 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
3147 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
3148 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
3149 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
3150 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
3151 so I produce this patch..."
3152
3295e65b
PH
3153 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
3154 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
3155 is not defined.
3156
7102e136
PH
315755. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3158 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
b975ba52
PH
3159 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3160 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
ea3a6f44 3161 CAN-2005-0021
7102e136 3162
3ca0ba97
PH
316356. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
3164
c2bcbe20
PH
316557. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
3166 long debug lines gets shown.
3167
18ce445d
PH
316858. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
3169 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
3170
1f5b4c3d
PH
317159. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
3172
3173 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
3174 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
3175 of $primary_hostname.
3176
b975ba52
PH
317760. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3178 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3179 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3180 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
85b87bc2
PH
3181 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3182 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3183 by change 4.50/55 above.
3184
3185 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3186 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3187 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3188 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3189 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3190 running as the user.
ea3a6f44 3191 CAN-2005-0021
85b87bc2
PH
3192
319361. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3194 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3195 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
ea3a6f44 3196 CAN-2005-0022
b975ba52 3197
17ffcae7
PH
319862. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
3199 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
3200
d95f9fdb
PH
320163. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3202 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3203 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3204 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3205 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
3206
86b8287f
PH
320764. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
3208 This has been fixed.
3209
60dc5e56
PH
321065. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3211 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3212 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3213 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3214 the caching.)
3215
533244af
PH
321666. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
3217
a5a28604
PH
321867. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
3219 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
3220 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
3221 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
3222
7e634d24
PH
322368. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
3224 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
3225
3e11c26b
PH
322669. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
3227 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
3228 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
3229
6729cf78
PH
323070. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
3231 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
3232 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
3233 message there.
3234
00f00ca5
PH
323571. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
3236 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
3237 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
3238
c9bdd01c
PH
323972. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
3240 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
3241 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
3242 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
3243
d43194df
PH
324473. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
3245 during host lookups.
3246
fe5b5d0b
PH
324774. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
3248 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
3249
3250 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
3251
76a2d7ba
PH
325275. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
3253 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
3254 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
3255 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
3256 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
3257 background.
3258
325976. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
3260 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
3261
04f7d5b9
PH
326277. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
3263 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
3264 for the non-SMTP ACL.
3265
bc60667e
PH
326678. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
3267
bb6e88ff
PH
326879. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
3269 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
3270 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
3271 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
3272 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
3273 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
3274 process earlier.
3275
1e70f85b
PH
327680. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
3277 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
3278 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
3279 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
3280 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
3281
328281. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
3283 tables).
3284
4e01f9d6
PH
328582. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
3286
1ee1cef2
PH
328783. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
3288 "vacation" handling.
3289
6e2b4ccc
PH
329084. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
3291 OS variants using glibc.
3292
8e669ac1
PH
329385. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
3294
495ae4b0 3295
bbe902f0
PH
3296----------------------------------------------------
3297See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
3298----------------------------------------------------
3299
3300
3301Exim version 4.44
3302-----------------
3303
3304 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
3305 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
3306 transport
3307
3308 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
3309 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
3310 place.
3311
3312 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
3313 filter fails to execute.
3314
3315 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
3316 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
3317 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
3318 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
3319 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
3320
3321 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
3322 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
3323 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
3324 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
3325
3326 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
3327 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
3328 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
3329 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
3330 control that does not make sense is encountered.
3331
3332 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
3333
3334 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
3335 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
3336 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
3337 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
3338
3339 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
3340 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
3341 sender verification.
3342
334310. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
3344 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
3345
334611. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
3347 the spool by the -Mrm option.
3348
334912. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
3350 ignore_target_hosts.
3351
335213. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
3353 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
3354 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
3355 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
3356 "[x.x.x.x]".
3357
335814. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
3359 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
3360 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
3361
336215. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
3363 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
3364 wake it up if nothing else does.
3365
336616. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
3367 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
3368 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
3369 end up negative.
3370
337117. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
3372 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
3373
ea3a6f44 337418. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
bbe902f0
PH
3375
337619. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
3377 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
3378 empty pattern.
3379
338020. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
3381 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
3382 one IP address.
3383
ea3a6f44
NM
338421. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
3385 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
3386 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
3387 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
3388 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
3389 1024 to 2048 bytes.
bbe902f0 3390
ea3a6f44
NM
339122. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
3392 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
3393 respected.
bbe902f0
PH
3394
339523. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
3396 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
3397 $sender_host_address.
3398
339924. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
3400
ea3a6f44
NM
340125. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
3402 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
3403 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
bbe902f0
PH
3404
340526. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
ea3a6f44 3406 As per change 25.
bbe902f0 3407
ea3a6f44
NM
340827. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
3409 (this can affect the format of dates).
bbe902f0 3410
ea3a6f44
NM
341128. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
3412 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
3413 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
3414 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
bbe902f0
PH
3415
341629. eximstats updated to version 1.35
3417 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
3418 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
3419
ea3a6f44
NM
342030. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
3421 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
3422 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
3423 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
bbe902f0 3424
ea3a6f44
NM
342531. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
3426 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
3427 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
bbe902f0 3428
ea3a6f44
NM
342931. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
3430 autoreply.
bbe902f0 3431
ea3a6f44
NM
343232. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
3433 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
3434 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
3435 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
3436 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
3437 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
3438 is going on).
bbe902f0 3439
ea3a6f44
NM
344033. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
3441 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
3442 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
3443 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
bbe902f0
PH
3444 CAN-2005-0021
3445
ea3a6f44
NM
344634. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
3447 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
3448 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
3449 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
3450 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
3451 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
3452 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
3453
3454 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
3455 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
3456 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
3457 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
3458 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
3459 running as the user.
bbe902f0
PH
3460 CAN-2005-0021
3461
ea3a6f44
NM
346235. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
3463 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
3464 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
bbe902f0
PH
3465 CAN-2005-0022
3466
ea3a6f44
NM
346736. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
3468 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
3469 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
3470 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
3471 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
bbe902f0 3472
ea3a6f44
NM
347337. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
3474 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
3475 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
3476 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
3477 the caching.)
bbe902f0 3478
ea3a6f44
NM
347938. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
3480 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
3481 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
3482 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
3483 because the tests only now provoked it.
bbe902f0
PH
3484
3485
495ae4b0
PH
3486Exim version 4.43
3487-----------------
3488
3489 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
3490 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
3491 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
3492 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
3493 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
3494 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
3495 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
3496
3497 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
3498 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
3499 the delivery.
3500
3501 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
3502
3503 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
3504
3505 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
3506 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
3507 to local_scan().
3508
3509 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
3510 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
3511 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
3512 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
3513 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
3514
3515 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
3516 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
3517
3518 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
3519
3520 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
3521
352210. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
3523 header_sender only.
3524
352511. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
3526 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
3527
352812. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
3529 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
3530 affecting debugging statements).
3531
353213. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
3533
353414. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
3535 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
3536 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
3537 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
3538 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
3539 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
3540 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
3541 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
3542 after the received time, and all would be well.
3543
354415. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
3545 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
3546 condition in an expansion string.
3547
354816. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
3549
355017. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
3551 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
3552 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
3553 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
3554 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
3555 job under whatever limits there are.
3556
355718. Imported PCRE 5.0.
3558
355919. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
3560 space).
3561
356220. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
3563 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
3564 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
3565 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
3566 return path is set.
3567
356821. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
3569 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
3570 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
3571 binary data in such strings.
3572
357322. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
3574
357523. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
3576 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
3577 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
3578 failure, which is pointless.
3579
358024. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
3581
358225. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
3583
358426. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
3585 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
3586 Sender: header lines.
3587
358827. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
3589 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
3590 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
3591
359228. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
3593 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
3594 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
3595 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
3596 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
3597 happens.
3598
359929. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
3600 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
3601 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
3602 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
3603 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
3604
360530. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
3606 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
3607 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
3608 1024.
3609
361031. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
3611 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
3612
361332. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
3614 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
3615
361633. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
3617
361832. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
3619
362033. Added an ACL for QUIT.
3621
362234. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
3623 syntax error.
3624
362535. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
3626
362736. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
3628
362937. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
3630 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
3631 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
3632 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
3633
363438. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
3635 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
3636
3637
3638Exim version 4.42
3639-----------------
3640
3641 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
3642 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
3643 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
3644 it was not quoted.
3645 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
3646 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
3647 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
3648 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
3649 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
3650 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
3651
3652 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
3653 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
3654 verification failure".
3655
3656 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
3657 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
3658 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
3659 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
3660
3661 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
3662 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
3663 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
3664 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
3665 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
3666 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
3667 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
3668 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
3669 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
3670 treated as a timeout.
3671
3672 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
3673 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
3674 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
3675 not set for Exim filters).
3676
3677 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
3678 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
3679 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
3680
3681 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
3682
3683 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
3684 try to make them clearer.
3685
3686 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
3687 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
3688
3689 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
3690
3691 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
3692
369310. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
3694 only the Cygwin environment.
3695
369611. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
3697 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
3698 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
3699 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
3700 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
3701
370212. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
3703 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
3704 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
3705 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
3706 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
3707 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
3708 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
3709
371013. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
3711 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
3712
371314. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
3714
3715 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
3716 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
3717 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
3718
3719 To: susanne@some.where
3720
3721 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
3722 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
3723 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
3724 of addresses in From: header lines).
3725
3726 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
3727 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
3728 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
3729
3730 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
3731 treated as non-personal.
3732
3733 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
3734 because it now seems ill-conceived.
3735
373615. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
3737
373816. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
3739
374017. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
3741 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
3742 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
3743
374418. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
3745 ACL and the local_scan() function.
3746
374719. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
3748 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
3749 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
3750 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
3751 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
3752 (I found it when inspecting the code).
3753
375420. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
3755 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
3756 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
3757 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
3758 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
3759 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
3760 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
3761 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
3762
3763 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
3764
376521. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
3766 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
3767
376822. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
3769 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
3770 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
3771
377223. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
3773 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
3774
377524. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
3776 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
3777 rather than long int.
3778
377925. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
3780
378126. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
3782
3783
3784Exim version 4.41
3785-----------------
3786
3787 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
3788 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
3789 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
3790 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
3791 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
3792 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
3793
3794
3795Exim version 4.40
3796-----------------
3797
3798 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
3799 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
3800
3801 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
3802 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
3803 socklen_t is defined.
3804
3805 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
3806 always exist.
3807
3808 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
3809 configured.
3810
3811 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
3812 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
3813 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
3814 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
3815 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
3816
3817 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
3818 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
3819 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
3820 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
3821
3822 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
3823 of flapping under certain conditions.
3824
3825 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
3826 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
3827 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
3828
3829 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
3830
383110. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
3832
383311. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
3834 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
3835 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
3836 the duration of the SMTP connection.
3837
383812. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
3839 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
3840 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
3841 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
3842 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
3843 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
3844 preserved with the message after it was received.
3845
384613. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
3847 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
3848 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
3849 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
3850 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
3851 test suite worked just fine.
3852
385314. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
3854 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
3855 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
3856
385715. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
3858 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
3859 string.
3860
386116. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
3862 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
3863 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
3864 does not fully solve it.
3865
386617. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
3867 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
3868 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
3869 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
3870 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
3871
387218. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
3873 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
3874 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
3875
387619. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
3877 string, for example:
3878
3879 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
3880
3881 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
3882 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
3883 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
3884 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
3885 the routers could not see them.
3886
388720. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
3888 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
3889
389021. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
3891 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
3892 output).
3893
389422. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
3895 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
3896 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
3897 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
3898 that needed quoting.
3899
390023. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
3901 was not being matched caselessly.
3902
390324. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
3904 backslashes.
3905
390625. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
3907 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
3908 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
3909 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
3910 when use_sender is false.
3911
391226. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
3913
391427. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
3915
391628. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
3917
391829. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
3919 the configuration file.
3920
392130. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
3922 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
3923
392431. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
3925
392632. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
3927 bytes in the message body.
3928
392933. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
3930 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
3931 delivery.
3932
393334. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
3934
393535. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
3936
393736. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
3938 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
3939 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
3940 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
3941 another IP address.
3942
3943
3944Exim version 4.34
3945-----------------
3946
3947 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
3948 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
3949
3950 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
3951 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
3952 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
3953 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
3954 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
3955
3956 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
3957 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
3958
3959 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
3960 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
3961 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
3962
3963 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
3964 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
3965 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
3966
3967 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
3968 for routers.
3969
3970 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
3971 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
3972 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
3973 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
3974 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
3975 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
3976 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
3977
3978
3979Exim version 4.33
3980-----------------
3981
3982 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
3983 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
3984 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
3985 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
3986 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
3987 default (and expected) setting.
3988
3989 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
3990 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
3991 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
3992 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
3993
3994 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
3995 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
3996
3997 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
3998 in domain lists.
3999
4000 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
4001 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
4002 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
4003 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
4004 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
4005 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
4006
4007 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
4008 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
4009 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
4010
4011 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
4012 part (NOT match_host).
4013
4014 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
4015
4016 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
4017 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
4018 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
4019 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
4020 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
4021 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
4022 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
4023 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
4024 the same named file.
4025
402610. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
4027 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
4028 when Exim is built.
4029
403011. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
4031 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
4032 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
4033 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
4034 a host name.
4035
403612. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
4037 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
4038 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
4039
404013. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
4041
404214. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
4043
404415. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
4045
404616. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
4047 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
4048
404917. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
4050 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
4051 before starting the TLS session.
4052
405318. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
4054
405519. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
4056 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
4057
405820. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
4059 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
4060 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
4061 colon in the middle).
4062
4063
4064Exim version 4.32
4065-----------------
4066
4067 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
4068 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
4069 multiple configurations are in use.
4070
4071 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
4072 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
4073 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
4074 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
4075 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
4076 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
4077
4078 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
4079 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
4080
4081 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
4082 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
4083 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
4084
4085 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
4086 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
4087 occurs.
4088
4089 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
4090 that used bh_ and bheader_.
4091
4092 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
4093
4094 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
4095 allowing one more file than it should have been.
4096
4097 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
4098
4099 -prval:sval
4100
4101 is equivalent to
4102
4103 -oMr rval -oMs sval
4104
4105 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
4106 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
4107 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
4108 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
4109 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
4110
411110. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
4112 Exim's behaviour:
4113
4114 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
4115 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
4116 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
4117 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
4118 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
4119 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
4120
4121 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
4122 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
4123 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
4124 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
4125 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
4126 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
4127 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
4128 string.
4129
4130 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
4131 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
4132 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
4133 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
4134 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
4135
413611. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
4137
413812. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
4139 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
4140 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
4141
414213. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
4143
414414. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
4145 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
4146 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
4147 information.
4148
414915. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
4150 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
4151
415216. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
4153 Three changes have been made:
4154
4155 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
4156 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
4157 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
4158 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
4159 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
4160
4161 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
4162 been restored.
4163
4164 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
4165 the modified behaviour.
4166
4167
4168Exim version 4.31
4169-----------------
4170
4171 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
4172 Larry Rosenman.
4173
4174 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
4175 indeed breaks things for older releases.
4176
4177 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
4178 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
4179 try to track down a specific problem.
4180
4181 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
4182 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
4183 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
4184
4185 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
4186 warning.
4187
4188 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
4189 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
4190 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
4191 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
4192 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
4193 some earlier ones do not.
4194
4195 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
4196
4197 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
4198 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
4199 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4200 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
4201 address literals are enabled, of course).
4202
4203 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
4204
420510. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
4206 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
4207 by a command such as
4208
4209 exim -f "" ...
4210
4211 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
4212
421311. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
4214
421512. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
4216 remained set. It is now erased.
4217
421813. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
4219 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
4220
422114. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
4222 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
4223 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
4224 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
4225 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
4226 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
4227 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
4228 appropriate error code.
4229
423015. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
4231 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
4232 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
4233 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
4234 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
4235 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
4236
423716. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
4238 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
4239 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
4240
424117. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
4242 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
4243 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
4244 terminate the header.
4245
424618. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
4247 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
4248 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
4249
425019. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
4251 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
4252 (4.30/29). In particular:
4253
4254 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
4255 imposed.
4256
4257 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
4258 to write a maildirsize file.
4259
4260 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
4261 the transport, the new value overrides.
4262
4263 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
4264 count.
4265
426620. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
4267 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
4268 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
4269 space or a tab.
4270
427121. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
4272 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
4273 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
4274 the fallback hosts.
4275
427622. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
4277 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
4278 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
4279
428023. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
4281 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
4282 using a union.
4283
428424. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
4285 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
4286 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
4287
428825. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
4289
429026. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
4291
429227. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
4293
429428. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
4295 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
4296 become corrupted.
4297
429829. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
4299 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
4300 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
4301 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
4302 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
4303 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
4304 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
4305 too great.
4306
430730. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
4308 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
4309 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
4310 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
4311 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
4312 incorrectly.
4313
431431. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
4315 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
4316 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
4317 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
4318 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
4319 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
4320 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
4321 cached value only when the same options are set.
4322
432332. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
4324
432533. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
4326 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
4327 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
4328 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
4329 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
4330
433134: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
4332 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
4333 it is clearly obsolete.
4334
433535. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
4336 transport.
4337
433836. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
4339 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
4340 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
4341 times.
4342
434337. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
4344 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
4345 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
4346 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
4347 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
4348
434938. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
4350 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
4351 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
4352 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
4353
435439. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
4355
4356 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
4357
4358 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
4359 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
4360 2^31.
4361
436240. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
4363 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
4364 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
4365 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
4366 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
4367 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
4368 $localpart_data.
4369
437041. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
4371 with the -f command-line option.
4372
437342. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
4374 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
4375 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
4376 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
4377 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
4378 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
4379
438043. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
4381 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
4382 line.
4383
438444. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
4385 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
4386 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
4387 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
4388 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
4389 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
4390 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
4391 buffer is too small.
4392
439345. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
4394 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
4395
439646. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
4397 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
4398 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
4399 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
4400 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
4401 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
4402 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
4403 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
4404 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
4405
440647. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
4407 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
4408 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
4409
441048. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
4411 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
4412 ACL").
4413
441449. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
4415 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
4416 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
4417 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
4418 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
4419
442050. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
4421 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
4422 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
4423 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
4424 is set.
4425
442651. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
4427
442852. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
4429
443053. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
4431 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
4432
443354. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
4434 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
4435 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
4436
443755. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
4438 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
4439 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
4440 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
4441 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
4442
444356. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
4444 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
4445 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
4446 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
4447 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
4448 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
4449 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
4450
445157. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
4452 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
4453 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
4454 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
4455 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
4456 the test of how many are available.
4457
445858. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
4459 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
4460 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
4461 Howewer, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
4462 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
4463 new message is started.
4464
446559. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
4466 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
4467
446860. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
4469 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
4470
447161. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
4472 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
4473 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
4474 is no long logged.
4475
447662. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
4477 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
4478 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
4479 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
4480 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
4481 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
4482 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
4483
448463. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
4485 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
4486 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
4487 interpreted as octal.
4488
448964. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
4490 setting.
4491
449265. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
4493 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
4494 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
4495 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
4496 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
4497 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
4498
449966. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
4500 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
4501 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
4502 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
4503
4504 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
4505 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
4506 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
4507 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
4508
4509 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
4510 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
4511 is a bug fix.
4512
4513 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
4514 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
4515
451667. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4517
451868. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
4519 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
4520 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
4521 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
4522
452369. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
4524 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
4525 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
4526 supplied", which is not helpful.
4527
452870. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
4529 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
4530 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
4531
453271. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
4533 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
4534 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
4535 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
4536 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
4537 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
4538 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
4539 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
4540
454172. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
4542 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
4543 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
4544 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
4545 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
4546
454773. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
4548 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
4549 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
4550 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
4551 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer errror. The
4552 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
4553
455474. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
4555 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
4556 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
4557
455875. Added write_rejectlog option.
4559
456076. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
4561 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
4562 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
4563 variables.
4564
456577. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
4566
456778. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
4568 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
4569 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
4570 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
4571 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
4572 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
4573 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
4574 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
4575
457679. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
4577 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
4578 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
4579 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
4580 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
4581
458280. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
4583 Haardt.
4584
458581. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
4586 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
4587 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
4588 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
4589 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
4590 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
4591 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
4592 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
4593 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
4594
4595
4596Exim version 4.30
4597-----------------
4598
4599 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
4600 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
4601 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
4602
4603 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
4604 fixed.
4605
4606 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
4607 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
4608 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
4609
4610 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
4611 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
4612 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
4613 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
4614 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
4615 empty string, assuming it had been canonicized.
4616
4617 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
4618 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
4619 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
4620 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
4621 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
4622 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
4623 the Exim test suite.
4624
4625 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
4626 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
4627 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
4628 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
4629
4630 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
4631 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
4632 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
4633 specify it in this variable.
4634
4635 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
4636 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
4637 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
4638 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
4639
4640 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
4641 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
4642 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
4643 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
4644
4645 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
4646 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
4647 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
4648 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
4649 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
4650
4651 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
4652
465310. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
4654 they are logged.
4655
465611. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
4657 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
4658 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
4659 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
4660 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
4661
466212. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
4663 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
4664
466513. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
4666 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
4667 to be output. Howeve, since Exim outputs its version number before the
4668 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
4669 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
4670
467114. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
4672 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
4673
467415. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
4675 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
4676 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
4677
467816. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
4679 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
4680
468117. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
4682 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
4683
468418. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
4685 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
4686 to get rid of the compiler warning.
4687
468819. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
4689 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
4690
469120. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
4692 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
4693 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
4694 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
4695
469621. Added the -t option to exigrep.
4697
469822. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
4699 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
4700 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
4701 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
4702
470323. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
4704
470524. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
4706 line; previously there was no indication of these.
4707
470825. Added .include_if_exists.
4709
471026. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
4711 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
4712 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
4713 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
4714 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
4715 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
4716
471727. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
4718
471928. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
4720 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
4721 this.
4722
472329. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
4724
472530. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
4726 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
4727
4728 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
4729 550 Sender verify failed
4730
4731 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
4732 the final line of the response.
4733
473431. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
4735 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
4736 all other user lookups.
4737
473832. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
4739 delivery time.
4740
474133. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
4742 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
4743 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
4744 result into an int without checking.
4745
474634. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
4747 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
4748 to have been documented since at least releast 1.62. I have made it work.
4749
475035. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
4751 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
4752 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
4753 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
4754
475536. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
4756 correctly.
4757
475837. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
4759 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
4760
476138. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
4762 to the empty sender.
4763
476439. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
4765 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
4766 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
4767 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
4768 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
4769 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
4770 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
4771 panic log.
4772
477340. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
4774 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
4775 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
4776 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
4777 used.
4778
477941. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
4780 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
4781
478242. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
4783 timestamps.
4784
478543. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
4786 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
4787
478844. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
4789
479045. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
4791 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
4792 logs.
4793
479446. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
4795 as soon as it is encountered.
4796
479747. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
4798
479948. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
4800 rewritten to "<>".
4801
480249. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
4803 recognizes a tab character.
4804
480550. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
4806 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
4807 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
4808 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
4809
481051. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
4811
481252. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
4813 crash.
4814
481553. Installed eximstats 1.29.
4816
481754. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
4818
481955. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
4820 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
4821 2822.
4822
482356. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
4824 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
4825 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
4826 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
4827 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
4828
482957. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
4830 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
4831
483258. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
4833 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
4834 list (.included file names were always shown).
4835
483659. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
4837 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
4838 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
4839 root at that time.
4840
484160. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
4842 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
4843
484461. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
4845
484662. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
4847
484863. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
4849
485064. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
4851 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
4852 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
4853 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
4854 failures to open the logs.
4855
485665. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
4857 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
4858 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
4859 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
4860 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
4861 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
4862 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
4863
4864
4865Exim version 4.24
4866-----------------
4867
4868 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
4869 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
4870 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
4871 change 4.23/1.
4872
4873 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
4874 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
4875 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
4876
4877 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
4878 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
4879 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
4880
4881 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
4882 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
4883 causing some misleading effects.
4884
4885 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
4886 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
4887 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
4888
4889 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
4890 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
4891 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
4892 queue-runner function directly.
4893
4894
4895Exim version 4.23
4896-----------------
4897
4898 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
4899 HEADERS_CHARSET.
4900
4901 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
4902 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
4903 was always written to the default place.
4904
4905 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
4906 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
4907 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
4908
4909 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
4910
4911 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
4912
4913 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
4914 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
4915 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
4916
4917 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
4918 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
4919 must start.
4920
4921 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
4922 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
4923 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
4924
4925 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
4926 command line option is disabled.
4927
4928 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
4929 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
4930
4931 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
4932
4933 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
4934
4935 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
4936 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
4937
493810. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
4939
494011. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
4941 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
4942 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
4943 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
4944 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
4945 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
4946
494712. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
4948 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
4949 timeout.
4950
495113. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
4952 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
4953
495414. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
4955 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
4956
495715. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
4958 received was valid base64.
4959
496016. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
4961 name of the variable that was being set.
4962
496317. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
4964
496518. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
4966 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
4967 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
4968 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
4969 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
4970 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
4971
497219. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
4973
497420. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
4975 nor realm was specified.
4976
497721. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
4978 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
4979 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
4980 errors are given to SMTP connections.
4981
498222. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
4983 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
4984 failing to send a response to QUIT.
4985
498623. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
4987 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
4988 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
4989
499024. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
4991 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
4992 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
4993 some systems use these upper case variants.
4994
499525. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
4996 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
4997 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
4998 socket" when it tried to send the third.
4999
500026. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
5001
500227. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
5003 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
5004
500528. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
5006 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
5007 expansion variable.
5008
500929. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
5010
501130. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
5012 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
5013 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
5014 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
5015
501631. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
5017 using it.
5018
501932. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
5020 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
5021 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
5022
502333. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
5024 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
5025
502634. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
5027 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
5028 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
5029 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
5030
503135. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
5032 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
5033 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
5034
503536. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
5036
503737. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
5038 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
5039 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
5040 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
5041 aborted.
5042
504338. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
5044 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
5045 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
5046
504739. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
5048
504940. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
5050 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
5051
505241. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
5053 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
5054
505542. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
5056 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
5057 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
5058 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
5059 when emails are that large.
5060
5061
5062
5063Exim version 4.22
5064-----------------
5065
5066 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
5067 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
5068
5069 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
5070 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
5071 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
5072
5073 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
5074 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
5075 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
5076
5077 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
5078 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
5079 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
5080 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
5081 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
5082
5083 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
5084 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
5085 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
5086 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
5087 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
5088 ever.
5089
5090 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
5091 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
5092 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
5093 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
5094 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
5095 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
5096 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
5097 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
5098 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
5099 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
5100 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
5101 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
5102 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
5103 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
5104
5105 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
5106 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
5107 parameterised it.
5108
5109 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
5110 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
5111 error should be diagnosed.
5112
5113 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
5114 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
5115 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
5116 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
5117 appeared instead of "NULL".
5118
511910. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
5120 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
5121 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
5122 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
5123 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
5124 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
5125 proceeds).
5126
5127 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
5128 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
5129 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
5130
5131
5132Exim version 4.21
5133-----------------
5134
5135 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
5136 or receiver verification errors.
5137
5138 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
5139 name.
5140
5141 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
5142 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
5143 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
5144 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
5145
5146 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
5147 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
5148 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
5149 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
5150 shouldn't happen again.
5151
5152 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
5153 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
5154 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
5155
5156 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
5157 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
5158
5159 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
5160
5161 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
5162 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
5163
5164 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
5165 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
5166 RFC.
5167
516810. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
5169 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
5170 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
5171
517211. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
5173 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
5174 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
5175 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
5176
517712. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
5178 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
5179 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
5180 to define what should happen).
5181
518213. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
5183 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
5184 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
5185
518614. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
5187
518815. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
5189
519016. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
5191 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
5192
519317. At least on BSD, alignment is not guarenteed for the array of ifreq's
5194 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
5195 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
5196 structure in all cases.
5197
5198 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
5199 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
5200 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
5201 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
5202
520318. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
5204 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
5205 domain name.
5206
520719. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
5208 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
5209
521020. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
5211 MD5 (which is deprecated).
5212
521321. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
5214 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
5215 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
5216
521722. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
5218 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
5219 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
5220
522123. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
5222 the book and for uniformity.
5223
522424. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
5225
522625. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
5227 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILBLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
5228 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
5229 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
5230 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
5231 non-existent command as the problem.
5232
523326. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
5234 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
5235 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
5236
523727. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
5238
523928. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
5240 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
5241 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
5242
524329. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
5244 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
5245 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
5246 timestamps using strftime().
5247
524830. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
5249 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
5250
525132. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
5252 transport-time rewrites.
5253
525433. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
5255 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
5256 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
5257 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
5258
525934. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
5260 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
5261
526235. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
5263 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
5264 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
5265 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
5266 comma and a space.
5267
526836. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
5269 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
5270 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
5271 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
5272 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
5273 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
5274 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
5275
527637. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
5277 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
5278 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
5279 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
5280 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
5281
528238. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
5283 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
5284 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
5285 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
5286 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
5287 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
5288 remaining text gets split now.
5289
529039. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
5291 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
5292 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
5293 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
5294
529540. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
5296 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
5297 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
5298 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
5299 $return_path.
5300
530141. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
5302 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
5303 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
5304 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
5305 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
5306 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
5307 passed through if needed.
5308
530942. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
5310 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
5311 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
5312 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
5313 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
5314 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
5315
531643. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
5317 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
5318 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
5319 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
5320 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
5321
532244. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
5323 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
5324 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
5325 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
5326 incorrect size information for certain domains.
5327
532845. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
5329 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
5330 noticed.
5331
533246. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
5333 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
5334 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
5335 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
5336 mayhem of various kinds.
5337
533847. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
5339 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
5340 may legitimatetly be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
5341 the right test for positive values.
5342
534348. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
5344 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
5345 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
5346 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
5347 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
5348 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
5349 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
5350 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
5351 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
5352 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
5353 envelope.
5354
535549. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
5356 module.
5357
535850. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
5359 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
5360 forbidding it.
5361
536251. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
5363 the existing equality matching.
5364
536552. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
5366 dealing with inode numbers.
5367
536853. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
5369 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
5370 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
5371
537254. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
5373 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
5374 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
5375 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
5376 local_scan().
5377
537855. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
5379 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
5380 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
5381 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
5382 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
5383 relay addresses has also been removed.
5384
538556. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
5386
538757. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
5388 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
5389 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
5390
539158. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
5392 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
5393 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
5394 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
5395 processing applies to CR:
5396
5397 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
5398 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
5399
5400 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
5401 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
5402 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
5403 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
5404
540559. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
5406 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
5407 This is a VOB (very old bug).
5408
540960. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
5410 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
5411 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
5412 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
5413 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
5414 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
5415 arisen.
5416
541761. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
5418 program routers.
5419
542062. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
5421 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
5422 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
5423 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
5424 adds:
5425
5426 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
5427
5428 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
5429
5430 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
5431
543263. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
5433 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
5434 not considered personal.
5435
543664. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
5437
543865. Added queue_only_override (default true).
5439
544066. Added the syslog_duplication option.
5441
544267. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
5443 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
5444 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
5445 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
5446 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
5447 header lines, and spool format errors.
5448
544968. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
5450 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
5451 for more flexibility.
5452
545369. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
5454 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
5455 consulting and updating the callout cache.
5456
545770. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
5458 Sabourenkov.
5459
546071. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
5461 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
5462 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
5463 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
5464 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
5465 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
5466 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
5467 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
5468 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
5469
547072. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
5471 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
5472 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
5473 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
5474 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
5475 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
5476 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
5477
547873. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
5479 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
5480 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
5481
548274. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
5483 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
5484 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
5485 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
5486 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
5487 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
5488 instead of killing the process with assert().
5489
549075. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
5491 than Unicode encoding.
5492
549376. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
5494 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
5495 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
5496 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
5497
549877. Added process_log_path.
5499
550078. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
5501 check_log_inodes was ignored.
5502
550379. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
5504 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
5505
550680. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
5507 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
5508 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
5509
551081. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
5511 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
5512 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
5513 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
5514 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
5515 were applied:
5516
5517 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
5518 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
5519 as invalid.
5520
552182. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
5522 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
5523 they will be used during message reception.
5524
5525
5526Exim version 4.20
5527-----------------
5528
5529The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.
5530
5531****